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Text-Based Tanya Class—Week #11
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Learning chapter 6. The composition and modes of expression of the animal soul. The definition of holiness. This class is recorded live at Chabad of the Five Towns. For more classes from Rabbi Shais Taub visit https://www.soulwords.org/ Follow us on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/rabbi_shais_taub Support our work at: https://www.soulwords.org/donate/ --OR-- PayPal: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/soulwordspayments CashApp: https://cash.app/$soulwords Venmo: https://venmo.com/u/soulwords
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okay
first of all happy birthday to paula
all right um
we are on chapter
six correct
okay
so just to retrace our steps
the uh breadcrumb trail
so to speak
we introduced in chapter one
i'm gonna be highly condensed here
chapter one the idea of the
animal soul
instinct for self-preservation
the amoral
the amoral desire to survive
then we spoke about chapter two the
altruistic selfless drive to become one
with hashem which we call the godly soul
in chapter three we zoomed in on the
godly soul we spoke about its anatomy
its makeup
namely its ten faculties which can be
subdivided into three cognitive
faculties and seven emotional
in chapter four we spoke about how those
ten
internal faculties
are expressed outwardly namely through
the three what we call garments
or modes of expression
which are thought speech and action
then in chapter five we focused on the
idea of the special connection afforded
to the soul through the study of torah
that if all mitzvahs are called garments
clothing then torah study is called food
or sustenance because we actually
uh internalize it and we make it one
with ourselves and we spoke about that
at length last week
that sounds familiar to anyone who's
been at all the classes or has caught up
online that sounds familiar
more or less
okay
so now
you may be thinking
you know in the end of chapter one you
introduced the animal soul
and we haven't heard a lot about it
since
we've been talking a lot about the godly
soul chapter three was about the anatomy
of the godly soul chapter four was about
the three garments of the godly soul
chapter five was about the food
of the godly soul what happened to this
animal soul that you brought up in the
end of chapter one
so here in chapter six we're going to go
back to it
we're going to go back to the animal
soul
and you're going to notice
well i will i will ask you a question
which you will be able to answer on your
own momentarily
we just spent three chapters focusing on
the
godly soul
we're going to do one chapter talking
about the
animal soul
why don't we give the same amount of ink
to describing
the mechanics of the animal soul
is much simpler
we can answer it after we go through the
chapter you could probably answer it
after the first line of the chapter
you want to see okay let's let's do one
line and see if you can figure it out
this one corresponding the
corresponding to the other did god make
those are the words of
king solomon in cahallis
this one corresponding to the other did
god make the whole system
is counterbalanced whatever there is in
holiness there is a counterpart
in
non-holiness
you figure it out already
the same thing
yeah yeah it's it's repetitious it's the
same thing it's just reoriented
it's a mirror image very good yeah yeah
so we've learned about
the ten faculties of the godly soul and
the three modes of expression of the
godly soul we don't have to go through
that in so much detail again
basically take what you know already
from chapters three and four and
reorient it
and then you have
you have the yeah you have the animal
soul okay
ki kame so he says it now explicitly
just like the
godly soul is comprised of ten
holy
that was what we talked about in chapter
chapter
three good
um
which are in turn invested in three
garments holy garments that was chapter
four
you could look at the map on the wall by
the way
the
soul from the other side which is from
the intermediate clipper which is
invested in the blood of the person
this is how we described it in the end
of chapter one
it is comprised of 10 crowns of impurity
okay that's a kabbalistic term you see
it's aramaic right there kiss
impurity we're talking about the animal
soul impurity
kissing the masavusa it's an aramaic
crowns
you see that it is an aramaic term it is
from the zaihar like most
kabbalistic terms are aramaic because
they're from desire
don't worry so much we're not going to
get into the exact meaning of it why
they're called crowns the point is
that these are the
bizarro spheroids
you know like in superman there's
bizarro world no you guys don't know you
do paula knows okay
so
there are the
just like there are aspherics kadaisha
nations so too in clipper there are the
asa kisrin di mesavusa the 10 crowns of
impurity all right i'll just throw a
little thing at you to so you feel a
little bit uh satisfied they're called
crowns because in
the side of impurity
selfishness reigns and each one wants to
be the king so they're called crowns
whereas in the sphere ice everything's
harmonized
and
cooperative because all the spheroids
are colored they're all
subsumed and inter-included with one
another and they're not in competition
they're there to
create a wonderful harmony okay let's
just continue though shaheen and namely
what are these ten crowns of impurity
chevamida is
the seven
negative emotional traits
how boys you say this
which emanate from the four
negative
elements
as mentioned above at the end of chapter
one remember we got into the discussion
of the four elements
so the seven
emotional traits the
lead
this
they have you have the emotional traits
and the
intellect which gives birth to them
which is further subdivided into three
shaheen
vadas
the source of the middays
because the middays are proportionate
commensurate to the sacral see this is
exactly the same thing we said before
the only thing if you are if you are
like
if your ears are perked up and you're
trying to look for little differences
there is a little difference here
because if you remember
in chapter three when we learned about
the makeup of the godly soul he said
three cognitive faculties which give
birth to seven emotional faculties over
here he says
seven or seven emotional faculties which
were given birth to by three cognitive
faculties now the relationship is still
the same the
the cognition are the parents and the
emotions are the children still the
parents and children relationship
metaphorically speaking but the
difference is in chapter three he says
the cognitive faculties first and then
the emotion of emotional faculties
that's because he was speaking about the
godly soul and here in the
the
animal solely says the seven emotional
faculties and then he says the three
cognitive faculties which one second
alludes to the fact
and i want to make sure this is very
clear because this is a
as a as someone who's taught tanya more
than twice i know that this is something
that people misunderstand
so i'm going to give you a heads up
it's almost one of those things that's
better not to teach because why
make everybody misunderstand but i'm
going to i'm going to give you a heads
up this is something that's very
misunderstood
it's not saying that in the animal soul
the emotions give birth to the intellect
it's not saying that intellect always
gives birth to the emotions that's just
how it works
the difference is that in the animal
soul the children are running the
household the children are ordering the
parents around
okay
so
in the godly soul
the emotions
are being guided by the intellect
they're being used as technology
or tools of the intellect
in order to drive the soul toward that
which it appreciates intellectually
in the uh in the animal soul
yes the intellect is still called
parents he says very clearly they're the
parents but then once they give birth to
the children the children go back and
they co-opt the intellect
for the purposes
of uh basically making excuses and uh
scheming and plotting how to get what
you want and rationalizing why it was
okay that you did what you wanted
it's called the the capacity to
rationalize which i think i've told many
of you before to rationalize means
rational lies
they are but the point is there it's
very rational it's very rational there
is a certain uh
internally congruent logic
it's just when you look at it in context
of reality it's absurd but in turn
no i don't know i heard it so no no very
little of what i say is originally my
it's my look at my piece for my piece of
him like the altreva says
um
okay
so
now we we're good on the relationship
between
segal and mid-ice it's the same
relationship it's just being misused
in the animal soul and he says a similar
thing here to what he said before
remember before he said
that the
emotions are the children of the
intellect
over here he says a similar thing he
says the emotions are the children of
the intellect
and then he gives a very interesting
example
of where that would work
detrimentally
a very interesting
metaphor
where that would work
in a in a negative way
look what he says here
kia cotton a child
he desires and he loves trivial things
relatively worthless things
leficia cichlid cotton
because his intellect isn't sufficient
to grasp anything more valuable
you understand
a child's love for trivial things
when a child gets all excited about
something silly about something fleeting
about
a a a
a piece of frosting on a on a cake and
they're oh goody and they're all happy
and they're lighting up because he gave
him the the right piece of frosting on
the cake
like why is that so
why is that so powerful for a child well
because
it's a cognitive thing
they're not capable of grasping anything
that's more valuable than that
therefore according to their capacity to
understand the value of things that's
what they're going to have
emotions about and he says the same
thing the flip side the same thing the
flip side the hain also mischa
swisskatsu midvaram katanam they get
angry and annoyed about little trivial
things
so then oh you gave him the wrong
frosting flower on the cake oh i wanted
the yellow one you gave me the pink one
they fall on the floor
sobbing
like they just experienced god forbid
some type of a tragedy
why again because their mind isn't big
enough to grasp anything god
thank god you know they don't they can't
grasp a bigger tragedy than getting the
pink flower instead of the yellow flower
vegetaris
and same thing with
tifaris which is pride
you know what are they proud of they're
proud of silly little accomplishments
but
that's what they're capable of relating
to cognitively
so he says basically
that
the point is not child psychology this
is not uh it's not dr spock
the point is
the point is not child psychology i i
always have to remind everybody when the
altareba uses an example please don't
get
focused on the example and then
run away with that as if that were the
subject it's not the subject here what's
the subject
can anyone remind us what are we talking
about
10 grams of impurity
10 crowns of impurity and why are we
talking about it how come to me my brain
and um impurity are oxymorons
why there's no such thing as a bad king
a crown a birthday crown
there's no such thing as a as a bad king
especially today everybody hates kings
we're all democratized we hate hate
kings
crowns don't all have to be good
crowns don't have people we hate all
authority we're americans we hate
authority
we're cowboys we don't want any
authority what about kendra
okay so that's just a different crown
okay
don't get obsessed on crowns don't get
obsessed on child psychology what's our
point here what are we talking about
today
animal soul why are we talking about the
animal soul because it's fun why are we
talking about it
what
because we talked about it before and
now we're forced to continue talking
about no that's not enough of a reason
because i spoke about it once and i'm
forced to speak about it again why are
we really talking about
within our it
yeah because i have a struggle going
let's just please remember why we're
really here because we have this
personal struggle in our service of
hashem and we're trying to sort it all
out and figure out how to do better okay
so part of doing better was i needed to
have certain insight about myself about
my inner makeup
and i was told i have an animal soul and
now i'm focusing on what the inner
makeup of that
of that inner of that animal soul is so
first thing you told me is you should
know
the animal soul
is made of
ten faculties cognitive and emotional
faculties three cognitives have an
emotional they have the exact same names
he doesn't even list them again because
we listed them in chapter 3.
the emotions he doesn't even list them
again um and he tells us again the
relationship is cognition and emotions
our parents and children
uh and he tells us an interesting
insight you should know
that the reason why the animal soul
loves what it loves is not an emotional
defect it's a cognitive limit or
limitation
so because that's all it's capable of
understanding that's all it's capable of
caring about
just understand the animal soul is not
receptive
to
abstract
thought or or spiritual ideas or
philosophical ideas the animal soul
relates to the concrete to the here and
now
to
personal payoff so this is what it can
relate to cognitively that's what it
could relate to and therefore that's
what emotionally it's drawn to
now how we're going to use this
information later
i'm not going to get into it just
let it be noted that it's important now
to understand these these things because
later on when we're actually
trying to manage this conflict it's
important to know
what limits the animal soul is operating
under
okay
all right
that's seven singles or doubles
they're uh they're also
doubles but it doesn't call them doubles
here he just calls them the midday he
does he doesn't do this he doesn't do
the singles and doubles
expression over here
okay so
here now
we just described the 10 faculties
these 10 faculties
kisha of the mecca
when a person
thinks about them
or speaks about them
or does them meaning when a person lends
expression to these
10 crowns of impurity either through
thought or through speech or or through
action
what happens at that point
so at that moment the thought in his
brain the speech in his mouth the power
of action in his hands and other limbs
necrom lavushe mesavo
are called impure garments la sebrina
sailor atmes to those 10 impure
faculties she misloves bohem which those
faculties are invested in dressed up in
those
garments bashas maison
at the time at the moment of
action speech or thought in other words
he has just described the three garments
of the animal soul just like in chapter
four we had the three garments of the
godly soul
now
just to try to remember from two weeks
ago
yeah two weeks ago
remember we said the garments of the
godly soul our thought speech and action
but what specific kind of thought speech
in action
about god
right
meaning to say and he categorized them
as thought speech and action of the
godly soul are all
mitzvahs
because how else does a godly soul
express itself joins us exactly okay
right but what are the levels of fish of
the godly soul specifically its liver
shanna fish its garments are all
mitzvahs
they're all mitzvahs
okay now we're saying that the animal
soul also has lavoshi on efficient it
also has garments thought speech and
action
through which it expresses itself
how do you categorize that
okay so you said avedas okay so that
would be easy to say you have mitzvahs
and you have evaders okay and you're not
incorrect
but
the definition is
a lot bigger than just avedas
because there's a lot of stuff
in between mitzvahs and evaders
so watch what he says here
the heinheim and these are namely what
are the three
what types of thought speech and action
are the thoughts reaching action of the
animal soul
call hamas him
all the actions are shania simpson that
are done under the sun
you know what means everything under the
sun
it means everything mundane not
spiritual not for the sake of heaven
it is all
vanity
and
brokenness of spirit
who commissioned
like it says in zayer
tv
the brokenness of the spirit
it's interesting here how he translates
this term which normally would say
is meaning broken i mean meaning evil
and here he calls it brokenness i mean
that's that's straight from the zayhar
he's calling it brokenness
dysfunction
any opportunity to connect to god that
is squandered
is a
breaking
or a damage
to
to the soul and to the spirituality of
the world
so what he's saying is
it's not just evaders it's not just sins
it's any mundane what he calls under the
sun activity
that is
well he's going to tell us explicitly
let's
so okay so keep that keep that term for
a second we'll circle back to that it's
a good quote you're asking good you're
asking good okay
[Applause]
any
words or any thoughts
and he already said actions that are not
expressly for the sake of serving hashem
and hashem's desire
shazahu peterslash
we've been banding about this
kabbalistic term sitra akra have we
looked into its literal definition sitra
is an aramaic phrase sitra means side
ahra means other sith the other side
that's what sitra means we use this term
to describe evil what is it literally
meaning means the other side it says
just says it
the other side which means what
it's not the side of holiness so here's
what he says
in order to be
thought speech and action of the animal
soul
it doesn't have to just be
so egregious that it's become
an actual violation of god's will
all it has to be is not expressly
for the intent
of aligning oneself with god's will
so you're asking a very good question
about the clipas noiga hmm i don't know
that's a good you hear her question
we learned about klippenga in the end of
normally i would say hold on we didn't
learn about it yet but we did you're
correct we did
so the chapter at the end of chapter one
we learned about klipas noiga about that
neutral clipper
clipping means shell and clippers means
the shining shell because you see the
spark of godliness shining through it
it's translucent
so what's up with that
so
i'm going to leave you with a question
for now i'm going to leave you with a
question but what he does say
is you have two categories it's binary
it's either kedusha or it's not
it's very categorical either it's kadusa
or it's not kadusha
yeah
yeah i have no idea how that fits in yet
right
yeah yeah no idea yet yeah he brought he
threw he threw out those terms with
russia and taught many in the beginning
of chapter one we haven't even come back
to that yet to figure out
with the godly soul the garments
are greater than the soul
oh wow okay
hold on a second i'm going to pause you
because i want everyone to hear this
you say with the godly soul the garments
are greater than the soul itself and
therefore lifted up
yeah that is what we said so finish the
thought go ahead you're on the right
track
you're 100 correct so just like we said
with the godly soul its garments are
greater than it and lift it higher than
it is on its own
so too the garments of the animal soul
are lower than the soul and schlep it
down lower than it is on its own
but they're both
they're both called the voice
okay so someone's it's one of the
questions can't you elevate it can't you
okay so this is similar to what you're
asking and i'm gonna i'm gonna ask you
to be in suspense for a little while
it's okay to be in suspense
for now we have two categories we have
holy and not holy
that's it
now within the not holy are the
gradations
okay spoiler yeah there are gradations
within the not holy and you alluded to
the technical term already klipas naga
and will and can't you elevate it and
all that stuff we'll get to that with
with hashem's help we'll get to that but
for now
i want the al-taraba's point to hit us
with full force he's saying such a
powerful concept right now
either something is expressly dedicated
to the service of hashem and therefore
it is holy
or it's not
giving no yeah that's correct now this
is incredibly important to have a
working definition
of the terms holiness
and unholiness we use these terms we
don't even know what they mean
we need a practical working definition
he's given us a marvelous one
that holiness means something that is
dedicated in fact
that's actually you know the altarev was
also not just the balatanya the
balashochanov
he was the the the genius not only in in
nist but also in igle in the
realm of torah so
even in uh in in halacha in simple
technical
terms
the idea of of kidushin let's say huppa
and kidushin
means a designation for exclusivity
that's what kedushin is marriage
isn't it as a designation for
exclusivity
so that's what kedusha is kedusha is
when something becomes
set apart
for one purpose for one usage
so in the old days we used to uh
have phone books we don't have phone
books anywhere we used to have phone
books nobody used them to look up a
number to look up a number you called
information and your mom yelled at you
for
right okay
but what were the phone books used for
they were used for booster seats for
children so when you had a toddler at
the at the shabbos table and you
couldn't reach the table so you use the
the the you know the big chicago phone
book or wherever you live
so
um
if somebody were to say to you hey don't
use the phone book for a booster seat
that's not what it's made for your
response is well who cares what it's
made for this is what it
this is what i'm using it for
but if somebody came and they god forbid
they use the homish
hey don't do that well yeah that's
legitimate why is that legitimate what's
the difference between the commission
phone book and why do i even say lahav
though between a kadusho kadusha such an
abstract term what does kadush even mean
holy you're just translating the word
designation
that's the point designation
so the phone book was not designated for
any particular use use it for whatever
works
but the homish is designated for being
used in special ways
by the way when we speak to children
about their bodies and about modesty one
of the ways you know we're always told
oh well don't tell them it's dirty tell
them it's holy yeah but that's just lip
service you don't know what that means
what does it mean that it's holy that
something that is designated for a
special purpose that makes it holy and
that which is holy is more designated
more
specifically committed to being used in
a specific way even if there are clever
life hacks where you could use things
you know you could use the homage as a
booster seat god forbid you could use
parts of your body for for recreation
but that's not what it was
designated for
it's a different kind of boost
that's that's good okay
it's also a booster a different kind of
booster so you understand that kedusha
means designation it means it was set
aside now if i would ask you so that's
that's concrete a book a homicide holy
okay but what if i would ask you
about an abstraction like like action
action is abstract i mean
you could see a person taking action but
the concept of action itself is uh is an
abstract idea
so how would you categorize an action as
holy or speech as holy or thought as
holy so it's simple simple criterion
here
well
that it's unique for hashem that you've
designated for this for the sake of
serving hashem so how do you categorize
thought speech in action as holy or
unholy you ask one question
what's it for
what is its designated purpose so if i'm
doing something and you say well why are
you doing that
i'm doing it because god told me to do
it okay so that's holy so that would be
a mitzvah
that would be a mitzvah it's something
god told you to do
now
you guys are asking about the clipas
noiga stuff so someone says why are you
drinking the water
i don't know i just feel like it oh so
that's
drinking the water so that i can teach
torah oh okay so now something that god
wants you to do and anyways i don't want
to get into the whole discussion of
elevating the the neutral clipper and
the club sneaker stuff
the animal soul itself is clippers nega
and the default of any action it does
for its own purposes is klipas niger
yeah
but
without getting ahead of ourselves yes
cripas nega can be elevated but for now
let's just grasp the
the contrast that he's making between
kedush and klippa yeah
so isn't the ultimate purpose
not just to obey hashem but that in
order to connect to hashem
right but that's the connection the
right the connection is i'm doing
something for hashem
i'm not doing it because it says it in
shock
i'm doing it because hashem wants it how
do i know what hashem wants because it
says it in shock
right i'm not serving
i'm serving god but how do i know how to
serve god i have to open the shogun
okay
are you supposed to think about this
you're supposed to think about it all
day yeah yeah
no because you're asking a good question
but the whole thing is about mindfulness
because everything everything comes down
to intent everything comes down to
intent why did you do it i don't know i
just felt like it then it's sad
okay so yes it requires constant
mindfulness you're 100 correct all right
let's continue here
all right
so uh
yeah so we said anything that's not
expressly done for the sake of serving
god is called the other side it's called
clip
holy means something where hashem can
dwell hashem can rest okay
two-step definition holiness is only
that where hashem can dwell and rest
there ain't a question
and hashem can only rest al david
shabbat let's light
his
upon that which is
nullified to him
that which is nullified him so basically
he's describing here here we'll we'll
use another word surrender kedush is
surrendered we said before designation
it's not a contradiction surrendering to
designation
he says kedusha is that which allows
hashem to dwell and hashem can only
dwell
where
there is complete bittel bitto means
surrender
i'm not you know they say ego ego edging
got out
so also i didn't make that up no no i
didn't make it up okay
so when you're full of you you're not
full of him then you push aside the ego
which you call bitter selflessness so
you make room for god and the same thing
with every single every single thought
speech in action is a decision whether
it is
self-oriented or if it's god-oriented
okay so he says um yeah
holiness is that which allows hashem to
dwell that which allows hashem to dwell
is that which is a bottle to hashem he
says baneba palmamish weather in
actuality right now it's battle kamala
kumar yanim like
the angels
bain bakaya or something that is
potentially bottle to hashem
or like the jewish person he may not be
bottle at this moment but he has within
him at any moment the capacity to give
up everything
for hashem okay
that's why the sages say that even one
who sits and learns torah the shrine is
there why because he is
making he's he's making space for hashem
to be there
and any ten gathering of ten any minion
is there why because the capacity of
these jews to be bottled at any moment
but anything that's not surrendered to
hashem
but holds itself to be
anything that is full of itself it's
rece of course it receives its its life
force from god because there's no other
source but it's not receiving from the
front it's receiving from the back
that's a whole other discussion what
that means but
what we're saying is
that something
any entity whose identity is
that i exist because i exist well you
know like pada you said i made myself
self
like a self-made man
so that does not allow hashem in now
obviously it's still being sustained by
hashem there's no other life source but
we call it receiving
receiving it through the back
yeah over the shoulder
what about a side entrance side entrance
yeah i'm sure there's different
i'm sure there's different degrees
of
uh he but he describes here the
mechanics of the beginner sacrifice
basically the life force goes level
after level goes down declines one level
after the other through a different
chain of of declensions uh cause and
effect series and with simsumimrabin
with many great contractions this this
life force is getting like
processed basically like uh imagine like
processed food it's not even like
recognizable what the original uh raw
materials were
smart
until the godly light is so condensed
it's so processed
until it's in a form where it can be put
into an exile state
and it could even enliven something that
is
feeling separate from god
and this life force is allowing that
thing to exist so it doesn't revert into
nothingness as it was before it was
created
so basically saying that if god wouldn't
be
recreating everything every single
second it would revert to its
pre-created nothingness
however something that is in a state of
kedusha
is uh getting that directly unprocessed
or minimally processed obviously
infinity has to be processed in order
for a finite being to receive it
but something which is rebelling and
rebelling doesn't mean sinning it just
means having an ego
and feeling autonomous
and feeling separate from god so that's
going to receive its life force in a
processed way
we can get into a whole long
conversation about this but i i don't
think we can do that today okay
i'm going to try to finish the chapter
let's see if i can do it
the physical world and everything in it
is called the world of clippers
that's why
everything in this world is difficult
and hard and
there's a lot of negativity
but
gave him by and in this world evil
people are able to prevail commission
cause of its
base save pedegala like it says in the
cabal
commission
even though if you really want to know
in this physical world
inside of it
are the ten spheres
the holy time spheres that's the
internal makeup
the underlying fabric of reality so even
this physical world which is so
uh
has is such a concealment of of of the
godly life force within it the guy the
life force is still within it
now
in the physical world you have the
aesthetics of asia the lowest spiritual
world and within the astrospheres of
asia you have the
of yitzirah ube
and then inside the astrospheres of
yitzira you have the asyspheres debris
and inside the atmosphere
it's like the russian dallas you have
the asus virus of atsilos
and inside the ten spheres of that silos
the highest spiritual world or ains of
baracho is the infinite light
it's all happening right here you're
saying where is that see list can it
take a rocket ship and go no no it's not
up there it's right here
it's just a question of
how deeply buried it is
but the core of reality even in this low
world which we just called a difficult
world a world full of evil a world where
evil people are able to prevail
notwithstanding all that if you peel
away the concealments you'll find that
at the core of reality is the infinite
light
the nymphs so it comes out
the infinite light is filling this
entire lower world
slab
through it's being invested in the four
worlds at silos
you also quote sources in the arizona
ready
now you're ready
okay
ella
now everything we just said
that it's either holy
or it's not holy
okay and that's true
and we said that this world
is a world of a lot of concealment and
there's a lot of
a lot of people who are not
mindful of the fact that they are
totally
they are totally at the mercy of hashem
for their very existence and that's why
this world is called the world of klippa
okay
there's a lot of clipper in the world
yeah sure i got it
ella however you should know something
there are two categories within cliffa
one lower than the other
one lower than the other they're both
low but one's lower than low
hammond regatta
so the lower level of clipper clipper
means shell concealment that which is
hiding the godliness the lower level he
shall scoop his tomas federer
those are the totally irredeemable
clippers they have no good in them
that doesn't mean they have no good in
them obviously they have some good in
them or they wouldn't exist
it's not accessible for all practical
intents and purposes there's no good in
them because i can't access that good
and that's why as we're about to explain
those are the things that torah
prohibits so it prohibits them because
any good that may be hidden within them
is totally inaccessible to me so why
waste my time with it
so we have the lower level
which has no good in it for all intents
and purposes
um
venicro
had his vision of the chariot he saw a
stormy wind and a great cloud these are
references to those three impure
clippers oh my handy specimen
i'll do that last line on its own but
basically i said what is in this
category i'm trying to go quickly to
finish up what's in this category
all of the idol worshipers and their
bodies all of the
impure animals that we're not allowed to
eat um and even uh vegetables you're not
allowed to eat like the third like uh he
says uh like chile academ the when you
mix
uh
vines with uh wheat so that's that's a
prohibition so you're not allowed to eat
that uh or like orla the first three
fruit-bearing years of uh
of a tree
anyways
he's saying all these things that are
against halacha that are going against
toyota whether they're people
or they're their animals or their
vegetables it doesn't matter people
animals vegetables these are things that
are going against hashem so these are in
the category of
the three irredeemable clippers okay
three it's three
this category remember we said the clip
is divided into two categories
so the category that we're speaking
about first the lower category has three
subdivisions within it yeah we're not
going to get into that okay the kim now
here's the important part this is the
last line of the chapter and we'll let
you go the hain ki am the highest
quality
shaq
and also
the energy
of any sinful
action
speech or thought
this is the part that's most pertinent
to us
when you do anything doing remember can
mean in tanya action it could even mean
speech and it can even mean thought
so the vitality the action
the energy behind that
forbidden
action speech and thought
our irredeemable clipper
on a little higher level than the one
you just mentioned no no no no
we didn't get into the other one no we
didn't get into the other one yet yeah
it's a cliffhanger
chuva's coming up in the next chapter
you're always ahead why are you always
ahead you're reading ahead
okay let me let's so
let's take
one more minute to just make sure
everyone understands what's happening
here okay
first we said there are two categories
it's either kadusha or it's not
okay no problem i got it
then he said now in the in the category
of it's not kedusha
there are two categories
one of them's a little bit better
and we haven't spoken about it yet
we haven't spoken about it yet the
entire chapter seven will be about that
but that's essentially what your
question is about the stuff that you can
elevate but we didn't talk about that
yet
what he did say is the lower level
within clipper
and it itself is subdivided further into
three
categories but the three categories have
no practical
uh bearing for us so just suffice it to
say you have within clipper
i'm going to use the terms redeemable
and irredeemable
not not good stuff
not good
so within the not good stuff we have
redeemable and irredeemable we didn't
speak about redeemable yet that's in
chapter seven
that's we call klipas noiga yeah
no no no no
you're jumping way ahead you're saying
aren't we taught everything's redeemable
with chuva
that is
after the fact
don't jump to ask me oh hold on a second
everything really is redeemable because
you have chuva no no you're not allowed
to say it like that you can't say it
like that first you have to say
it's irredeemable
and then after you understand it's
irredeemable you say come here
did you ever hear about chuva
okay all right is everyone clear on
where we got up to so that means if
everyone's clear
not clear what do you need
one second okay
yeah
three levels
yeah
is the one we haven't learned about yet
i know yeah and then there's another two
no there's another three
there's another three yeah
okay
so what are those three
we don't
can i tell you something
real like tanya students
never use specific terms for the
individual three irredeemable clippers
so i'm telling you even with the big
boys they just say the three
irredeemable clippers
the lowest level of those yeah
but that one has three
three subsets of it but we never
would never discuss what the three are
okay so if everyone's on the same page
what will next week be about
which is the clip of which is
and and is able to be
redeemed yeah that will be god willing
next week okay
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