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The Healing Message of the Tanya - By Rabbi YY Jacobson
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Without It, You Can Become Cynical & Disillusioned, or Fake & Superficial. This class, an introduction the underlying message of the Tanya, was presented during a farbrengen, in honor of Chaf-Daled Teves, 24 of Teves, the 205th yartziet of the Baal HaTanya, Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Liadi, the Alter Rebbe (1745-1812), with Rabbi YY Jacobson, in Monsey, NY, on Thursday, the eve of 24 Teves, 5778, January 10, 2018.
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everybody could quarter of a leftover
much lapel you see what amazing it has
you see what a baton is it's not science
to most people
Clara says invaded good days I've been
me layover of a Tamiya male Avril island
when the Alina kill of shame Russia fill
of chakras where guys could call Yama
money of you'll tighten Tonya that he
could do children fine but still way
over Oliver at me
bob is a bane indeed Africa I've been
because of Bain and we understand a
baton is in state so fine but it's we
understand why I can make a mistake it's
a mistake but it's a Chuck it's a
goodness she says I could fry look at
all the pillar potted sure was a cost of
all the time he finished pay to Calif
and he said I used to think I was
tickled sarthak and yeah it's tell the
vibe a nanny so the showers are good to
Charlotte I'll be Mothra wanna coda then
the code of the bane and his shyest
everybody say Stasi whenever you read
about a certain matter a game considers
or any safer people make a mistake and
they look at it as black and white
either am this or I'm not this and since
I'm not that I'm the opposite every
Indian exists in Russian of alter never
wish lame us and also exist busy a
rampant was a dump in means you'll have
a mirror that reflects an image and in
the mirror it's much smaller you have a
picture of yourself
the picture is deciced the picture is
four by four
you're not four by four you're not four
inches by four inches let's hope not
but the picture has all of you inside
the picture when you read about a
Madurai again maybe you can have mine
where you could have a picture of it a
picture that means the inion the way it
applies in a miniature form it's very
very important because people read about
things and I'm not this not try it to me
it was written you wanted express the
Indian in its full arm it tears but you
have to take a picture of it picture
that means
pictures a real thing it's not a you see
of
you see what the guy looks like in other
words you take the image in the way at a
place every moderate applies in every
person's life in a certain - every
Indian even at Sadiq culture getting
another band name
what's the finish of the baton a and
then we'll understand why in so
important what's the finish of the baby
as I developed always held that Sabich
is somebody who mostly mitosis rushes
mostly of a disability is fifty-fifty
doctor never completely rejects this
notion he says that stung
Shaima mu shal it's not the real idea
sometimes you use it like you'll say
your child got a good mark on the test
at Sadiq it doesn't mean the descending
you're at something somebody comes out
from court and he's innocent you pissed
at Sadiq doesn't mean it's a shame
emotion isn't the real definition of
it's sad that kind of pain Indiana
Russia there's something else
Sadiq means Libby's Holabird cubic other
than a v8 so her painting is somebody
who struggles but lay off of a layover
and I rush is somebody who struggles and
he surrenders if you let now some loud
let's think about it the Big Finish of
time you say for champagne in there not
safe for shots at the command not say
for sure I'm safer shall bein and in
many ways the hero if I could express
myself this way the hero of the time he
is not at Sonic certainly not in Russia
it's the bane of me my Bane and me my
Hanukkah Tamara Bonin my Hanukkah
of dilutive is a stunner Ivana my beta
me what's what what's this beta me
what's the faucet um get breaths
pay the Caliph doctor abandon prove that
Santa is not somebody who did mostly
mitzvahs Russia is not somebody that
mostly evaders and Hebei knees on
somebody fifty-fifty my enslave what was
bothering him
stops are pimple in tomorrow what it
sounded can abandon is to understand
robber or to understand eeeh evil to
understand all the Shiloh's over him
pain a caliph what a gosh is he asks a
good child of the camara says and shoe
is in a moment he do one ave they
already are
she never accepted to finishing Amara's
of Smalley's theories she says Russia's
even one of it what does he want a lot
of people learn the first painting time
is okay till I learned the first pay the
tiny I thought then I'm at something and
now I'm not even abated me now I'm
stopped my Russian okay so what's the
point makes you feel worse the Emmis is
that with this concept he was trying to
teach something that is often
revolutionary I'll say the kids are
numerous if you read see in Worcester MA
sure my atomic ship if you read safe
limo service if you read swarm of
masseur I'm talking about serious if we
Muslim shyrokov
are Fossati Kim Davis olive Ava's ratios
hakama share each other miss ELISA
Shoreham over this something used to
learn 15 minutes before service every
day so you learn all this foreign of a
city most said generally Claudia soil is
divided into two groups good guys and
bad guys I'm speaking very generally so
the commander Shan good guys abandon the
good guy is the guy who's aligned with
rots and Hashem Hashem and me we're a
good ship of salah bites the bad guys
are the people who are not aligned with
resolution that sound ik is somebody
that what are shem wants is what I want
we're on the same page shell doesn't
want me to do this I don't want to do
what he wants me to do this that's how I
live I love him my love is tired I love
his Mitzvah Simon what we call what the
Zeta is to call on ever fade yeah
Plus yeah he's a good guy
that's that stuff then the other group
are troublemakers Hashem wants
so there's they do CH over then they
could become something but very often
they don't enjoy their major showing up
this was generally again I'm being very
generalize and make it simple but
generally there's two categories of you
of course this problem and Protectorate
him and matter agus etc here's the
challenge here's one of the great
challenges and today you can really
appreciate it but this was a challenge a
few hundred years to ago - and that is
there were serious Jews who read all
these Farnam and they want to do they
wanted to make it personal but they had
a major problem problem was do are those
the shamaness that get along with God
there are in every generation does even
I'm just saying it you know in the
dramatic words but they get along with
Hashem they just get along maybe because
they're very bright they're extremely
bright or maybe because they're so
simple innocent they're just innocent
their commitment or they're just -
usamos whatever the situation is but
certain people maybe it's from birth
together with a void its genes its
nature its nurture and a smile a abayas
polloi this office the mom is telling
them the Mamas tenon combination of
everything together in their own way in
their all weightless everyone everybody
in the world wrestles we live in a world
but there's wrestling in his wrestling
you know what I mean
the edge of a Yasha is wrestling in
yeshiva you know what I mean and is
wrestling in with the big boys bird Oh
godl certain type of soul you just have
a certain type of solar certain a
sensitivity an airless kite you're gonna
decide your son is gonna be the ribbon
it's a rabbit tomorrow yeah the Mendel
foot of us was very close to the libman
sir the benefit of us was a kibbutz care
who was in prison for many years and he
became causing the Russia he was stayed
for many years he was with the niblets
as he said once that niblets has said
that men will come a mikvah feels very
intimate let's call it man
so the mikveh was in a river the problem
is it was winter winter and Russia's not
winter in muncie winter months he's a
heat wave winter in Muncie yes a heat
wave the summer that's a heat wave
there's no boating there's no boating
but if you go to certain places up north
up there - 40 it's a heat wave
especially tonight there's mama a heat
wave
so the rivers when went to harvest that
was buried near a river the Persol River
it spice mama scheisse they were they
were doing you saw they were skating on
it Shabbos afternoon the were Gentiles
ice-skating on it
there was a citizen who would come and
they would chop the ice and go to the
mikveh because I didn't want to go and
today they but have a hop lick but it
was on me cuz I didn't were no steps
there was nothing they would chop the
river to be able to go to the but it's
very dangerous because this ice
everywhere of the person it's mom or
cyclist no flashes so deliberates it
takes her Mendel down to the mikveh to
the river was freezing so stocking our
ice it was water but it was water that
mama SH you can suffer from what's
called hyper
fermion push a dangerous the frigid miss
who was so cold if you remember the mall
Santas matron measure push it's a type
of cold this is partially dangerous I
went in you couldn't I couldn't go in
three times because I felt the body is
you have to know you have to know your
body would they wouldn't be able you
could be young you went three times once
they also you couldn't go three times
unless you have a different time
it's like dangerous you could feel your
body says out calm the results may cause
like a heatwave
the result is a vitamin you can't
compare anyway so the evidence said
thousands of mendel come gained a mikvah
the Mendel says he is very sinister
forces were so cold like the water is
like 40 below zero whatever the number
is it didn't get it didn't get out it
was almost ice
he says gay gates was anger so the men
will go jump since there was accident he
was a little too vague to eat but he was
a regular person he said he almost died
he came out it was pitch dark he almost
died but it came out he got rest his
head the difference it goes in slowly he
does 310 320 suspected in this water he
said once he he falls down on a silver
and he's very relaxed now they came down
the hill it was a slope that the go
thought they Riven had to go up he
finished his 300 and he came up he cuts
dressed and he says and he runs up the
slope like he was a teenager who jogs
does marathons every day he comes up and
they go on top he's going home and it's
already almost always a shock he wants
to go down and suddenly shake circles
that's it again
because work another 310 the man used to
say this certainly a help okay so you
have a person you have a person so
obviously it was a different to
different caliber different quality okay
it's a person whether it's on that
Monday goal or McNair and then you have
the rest of the people who don't get a
warm amish with hashem once in a while
yeah not so when they were reading Moses
forum very few people could genuinely go
into the category of the topic because
it's not a guy who Yom Kippur wants to
Darvin it's a person who's always in
sync with rots in Hashem who could say
that about themselves so the rest of the
people went into the left so either you
go right so you go left
what does this do to people it does one
of two things either you use you give up
what does he use bring to cynicism huh
cynicism you become a let's you laugh
you become cynical because it's like
it's all a joke it's all it's not real
nothing is real
it's columnist Chicago I hate him a lot
Hayden so does he hear a rough gets up
and starts talking here he goes again
you know he's gonna be selling the
Brooklyn Bridge that they sold to him
that they sold to him they salt him and
I was gonna sell it to me and you could
just see on people's faces I don't know
if you know but people they open their
mouths and everybody's faces are like
they may look at him but it's like yeah
Wow yeah can you also sell Venus you
could sell me Mars yeah and then the guy
is serious he's doing this job no
question was a mother once came to her
of and she said you have to save my
child as machete to one I've said what
happened she said he put on a yarmulke
he wasted Cissy put on a bit of Tom's
twill and he goes to the mikveh doesn't
drink all of Ockham anymore mom he
started to do tied mitzvahs he Kashar
the home is an answer machine you have
to save so the rabbi says it's funny you
come to me I do
you know you get paid for it
my son never you get a salary what are
you gonna get it by the big man say guys
I don't believe anymore my god he got a
cell somebody got it through the
propaganda you know the music got to go
on somebody gotta sell the thing but
this is my son he's not getting paid for
the guy never means so some people call
in to that category they just become
either they get depressed and they live
with guilt because they look at this
farm they hit delicious yeah and they
know that the incapable they also don't
give up woods and even if they read the
sign they do so it's for a few minutes
so either they feel guilty or they have
used to have the spear and if they don't
want to feel guilty and have the spear
they become cynical they just detach
they disassociate cuz they want to be
free they don't want to live with guilt
I always say a Jew if he doesn't feel
guilty he blames himself and if he
doesn't want to blame himself any more
you just give it's all a joke and you
make fun of everything today you have an
enormous amount of such people they have
a smirk not bad videos give a little
smart they give a little smart a lot of
people the first time they come to my
shear and they do that they sit with a
smirk
I bet you shaft of the camel mmm
that's a lie but it's just smart the
smirk is okay the next card the next one
the next charlatan let's yeah let's find
out you know what he's up to
well take a week I'll take a month okay
it's this month and it's coming from
pain it's coming from innocence I've
heard too much how bad I am and I had
enough I had enough of feeling that I
don't belong which is also innocence
annoyance pain frustrations alienation
yeah I don't wanna either I could feel
dirty and filth I'm going to get him
tomorrow oh I say this whole thing is
leave me alone I may do it for my kids
I'm not gonna get divorced and take my
kids out of the moistness and move to
Greenwich Village
I live in mon-sol state months I live in
case you lost a key Israel
I live in Barra Pakistan Burpo I live in
Lake will stay in Lakewood but I'm not
part of the game and whenever you can he
he finds ways of entertaining himself
then you have the other extreme the
other extreme is that I want to live
with guilt I don't want to be
disillusioned so I make believe and I'm
that Sonic
which means what do you do with all your
emotions you have to repress all your
emotions you repress your emotions and
what happens is I'm talking about also
good people you talk to them you're not
talking to a real person you're talking
to a facade you're talking to a guy who
closed his eyes on you will start making
with his hands and this yeah it's an
automatic system because if I can't he
wants to fit in and he wants to say I am
that person
it's banana everything EDM it's
initiated and if I really have to deal
with my emotions I Know Who I am I have
to say either I'm depressed I'm guilty
or I'm disillusioned I'm not I'm a good
guy and it comes with Shawn I filled
Vegas it comes el oh I feel the rock I'm
Amy Goodman Serafina it comes sonic I
feel our goners
I don't feel I scream a little louder
I'll close my eyes more and when you
talk to that person you can't have an
honest conversation
not because he's bad because he can't
have an honest conversation with himself
because if he has an honest conversation
with himself the balloon plotz's so he
becomes a very superficial person or a
very faked person or a person who
repressed as most of his self or
mutilates much of himself he can't deal
with it
these are two opposite extremes from the
same issue and that is Claudia stall is
divided into two sound the Kenosha and
here is here is where we come to
appreciate a little bit what the Alta
rebel
the bow hi Lula of tonight wanted to
give Claudia strong and every Jew in the
world was safer shall bathe in it the
baton is not just a piece he found that
pill palma tubs have no mana bein in me
because he found on the sack the shoe is
with a massage de blacas but I'm a
sector son Hedren Thomas a Kenosha
shaman to prove it's not the crush see
he had upside good to pull for after
that was eyelids what's everything by
him is is through the shots and poskim
and everything I was his dareth but the
Bainer name was in abstract affection
good mornin the baton II was a mihalis
in either side what's the hidden of the
baton a medication dish the bane of me
is a man who will always struggle like
we learned in this mind man anything
trigger he walks in the street and he
sees a woman oops
he's almost gone he's almost gone he
sees a gash like a piece of food and
he's almost done anything could trigger
him anger snows Chavez Aras huge all the
issues that people struggle with me read
an eruption Hashem complete this
interest in anything I'm interested in
his wife nurses kids not interested in
God and interested of nothing wakes up
in the morning and like Shailaja sunny
go not me
baruch hashem elokenu Malekith omim
hi-yi so so secret was an ago it was an
avid is services you have to take care
of the kids but I going with an avid
Avada I have it maybe not
I don't relate to any I'm not interested
I'm interested in you and suddenly about
an episode
who said that God wants perfect emotions
it was my homage to sin you disguise I
pay to get download the penny could give
them on a pair of Zion not some souls
were made to beat so they could they
have to be created like that if you're
not created like that you may be able to
achieve it but you may never be able to
achieve it you may always have to deal
with spaghetti that hits the fan and
when your spaghetti hits the fan it goes
all over the place and the dining room
gets very very dirty and there's some
ketchup and mustard and barbeque soup to
a barbecue sauce too and you'll have to
deal with me deal with it your whole
life every person in their own way this
one's psychological this one emotional
this one's spiritual this one all
together yes God never asked you to be
at Sonic in the sense that you're
completely holistically pure or as he
says at this moment that we learn
tonight about shaivism take on a bris
stop expecting this absolute purity
expect Shriekers that will send you
straight into an emotional abyss and
then I tell you that in that place God
said I want you to connect with me
because you'll always be in control of
your thoughts you'll always be in
control of your words you'll always be
in control of your actions any mood or
any struggle does not take away from you
the ability to act a certain way to
speak a certain way and to think a
certain way I may not be able to control
every emotion I may not be in a horrible
I may be angry I want to punch you in
the nose I want to punch in the wall
and I want to run away to the Congo for
seven years he came to our Rafa you like
the Congo Youth once came to our of and
he says everybody says will I get I want
to get up says very Vilnius you describe
him and Columbus discovered America who
doesn't every guy wants especially when
you get to a couple upon them tonight so
you're the only one struggling are the
people who don't struggle of course that
people there are newlyweds lovebirds who
are what's how many neshama saw that
people read novels they think every
marriages like that so one had a 1-1 and
eight billion and there's no eight
billion people in the world that's my
maybe one except maybe one in six
billion I don't mean to be not romantic
but it's not this people struggle I
could make men's that itself I could use
to connect when a person becomes
accountable for what they did
and they learn from it that becomes part
of the relationship the mistake becomes
a lesson so the mistake itself becomes
part of the relationship it teaches me
about myself teaches me about my
weaknesses teaches me what I should be
careful of tomorrow
the Makos well if Superman said again
wouldn't now that ideal baton NEMA
is like over Nevada he never sends you
know why because the struggle for him
doesn't make him sin he's fine with it
the s place for it part of me has to
deal with battles and it doesn't mean it
has to control my life the biggest sin
in the world is when he decides that his
struggle is sinful
that he's an evil person he's not so
without it ever wanted to do with the
Ben Oni what he did with the baton is
just put it in one sentences he gave he
allowed every single Jew wherever he or
she stands in life to be able to find
their place as an avid Hashem without
chopping off parts of themselves without
the need to repress to crush to run away
to become cynical to become angry to
deny to become superficial he showed how
you're alive the way it is in all of its
complexities could be a sheer etosha or
as the russian of a sham hamako him a
shadow only the love at Moscone omit the
law maybe the love means you're not a
saint but it doesn't mean you're wicked
and evil he's talking to my chest as a
Reb of the Jewish people he's talking to
my shares as a leader not to my chest
Amazon huh he's talking too much as a
leader there is the [ __ ] about moisture
famous story with moisture to fire all
that you know the story with the picture
many people denied the story but the
story is an interesting word that the
Pharisee straw brings it in an omission
is that thinking condition that moisture
Rubino he says he saw he found a source
that moisture was in the mid bore and
there was a king who heard about what my
shoe did so he sent his greatest artist
to pick the painting to make a painting
of
and the person brought back the painting
and he gave it to experts on how I saw
parts of the people who study the face
they looked at the picture and they said
this person is emotional he's a
corrupted Fedor been a person he's a
horrible person
the King said probably he made the wrong
at the wrong I got the GABAA instead of
their evidence whatever I mean he just
got the wrong guy you know they said he
has the longer beard he has a muzzle he
has a longer beard so so so they sent
another guy the same picture so the King
couldn't deal with it so he went is what
he says he went himself to the mid-north
and he asked if he could meet my son
they said yeah and he went to meet
moisture privately and he looked at
moisture and he saw the picture and he
so it's the same thing it looks perfect
so he tells my chef to ask you a
question my experts tell me that your
face represents horrible horrible meters
you're horrible person to something off
so moisture says they're right I was
born with a very very difficult
personality and I worked on myself I
challenged myself to become Hawaii
now many people challenge this tafero
sister all the Gemara says in the smiley
huh biased cooler he was born right area
a stinky tofu
but this vote has brought even the
dagger machina frying brings it
committee about sham to ring not to stir
that motion Albania was born with a
difficult ever so the story with the
snail would also apply to him according
to this Mahalo again it's a debatable
issue but certainly we could learn from
it right so that's the word that the
bane of me represents a model for every
person wherever I am even a person who
sins but the concept of the vein in the
hands that I don't have to look at my
negativity and either get depressed
about it or make believe it doesn't
exist and then I have to use so many
distractions to numb my pain because
it's very painful to know that it exists
so most of my life I'm busy
making believe I don't have something or
covering up or getting rid of the pain
which means that I'm completely not even
connected with what I want to be but
rather it has a place and that's part of
his avoid assertion explain to Tonya
that Hashem told the most of us a Lima
Tommy McCollum is a two course meal so
the other episodes there's two types of
meals this is mom Nashville for diner
but he says there's a Michael that's
made of delicious sweet food you make a
cheesecake [ __ ] adesh what do you use
you use flour sugar eggs oil marjorie
never even very little flour of course
lots of sugar that's a fat lots of fats
and of course lots of cheese and it's a
good smack of foods everyone goes crazy
you're putting a little marble whatever
it is and I love that mache device then
you make your money they get fat and
make your money everybody's happy
but do you taste a little bit that's
called orcish market Michael then he
says the second type of chef the as of
food and you taste it and it's full of
tarty bitter foods that are very spicy
and if you take the spices for itself
it's not edible but this chef knows how
to take the most horrible herb or spice
which is very bitter and not edible and
he puts in a little amount into the
salad to the chunk and to the fish under
the kishka into the soup i'm a fycare if
you don't put in salts Affeldt shouts
now who eats salt welcome miss sugar
welcome out which normal person needs so
but if you take the salt and you know
how to put in the right amount of
ingredients into the soup into the salad
the salt actually makes the food that
gives it its its beauty
so the alter episodes that's terms of
the topic and abandoning the Sabich
serves gods with sugar
circuses he's a sweet eid there's no
bitterness in him the bane of me is full
of bad black pepper
smug career crushed pepper fathom it
salts with all the party foods jalapenos
yeah everybody's enthalpy knows sriracha
all the good stuff
Koopa and then he takes it so if you
stomp eat it on its own it's horrible
but he's a chef the very very bitterness
becomes an instrument and avoiding this
Hashanah either as the device itself
becomes an opportunity for a truther for
rediscovery or it becomes an opportunity
to be able to crystallize what you
believe in what you don't believe in by
screw by struggling against this and
confronting it you really have to tell
yourself this is who I am this is why
I'm not so the bitterness itself is
converted and transformed to a
tremendous instrument of avoidance a
sham so not only don't you run from it
this is your tassel is brie asylum you
might like a liver to be able to deal
with it it doesn't glorify evil doesn't
glorify this to us as a mitzvah to
struggle but the point is that the
various ups and downs in life that we
have internally this is essential to the
home Allah and this changed the paradigm
for millions of Jews whatever the
session was it allowed the person to be
able to show up to God fully in your
full presence hey MA
he's up [ __ ] Mario Bava metzia I ready
shall colorful man domina
Here I am he named him the ability to be
able to say he named me that's what
great now she says for me he named e of
rum said he named me Yaakov moisha small
he named Li what's the my lovin Amy he
named he means it's been done with a gun
sir the full self he mainly I'm here I'm
here fully you know why I didn't have to
cut anything off and after Ron I didn't
have to deny I didn't have to repress
I'm not afraid of it I don't
solution maybe I'm here the ability to
be able to say he named Eve I admire of
evæmon he never even E has been done I'm
here what happened with all the torment
with all the confusion there's a place
for it we confuse gills with children
with remorse by us guilds we think guilt
is wholly guilt is worse than Nevada
because guilt doesn't tell you the sin
is bad that would be good that's true
ver guilt tells you you're bad you're
evil you're hopeless
Torsten Nevada that's because we we we
fail to teach our students and our
teachers our children played us of our
guilt guilt curse boys people constantly
it's one of the what's one of the most
poisonous things it air Eliza's people
doesn't help them grow
or number or nominee you would welcome
the challenge aspect of business you
make a mistake either tomorrow you don't
make that mistake
let's go nobody gets the getting rid of
the guilt is one important thing another
important thing is I tell you every day
yet another important other important
thing is another important thing is
learning that just because I struggle
with something it doesn't mean it has to
only it has its place and fact before I
could give it its place the less it owns
me in other words like this the less I
give it its place I say it's not much
it's not even a child I would give it
any place people think oh you're chasing
it away the more it owns you because it
creeps in silently and it controls
everything you know what is covet
discovered and then you know people
aren't shy put your name on the flyer
the needs of saddam holy Volvo your
changes in anything why cuz he had to
tell himself Mimi covent yeah may cause
a double whammy the more you give place
to it you see comfort doesn't then you
tend there's a part of you it doesn't
need to comfort my fam I real value
somehow we have ingrained in our DNA I
mean all humans have
there's also another component that
debating me knows about his neshama his
inner core is divine and he knows it
like he says in this mine lucid the
livings very aware of it
and he connects to it okay so say this
we don't underestimate this I'm not he
knows that he connects to it he but he
he cherishes it he wants to fight for it
if I don't think I have this in me so
for K this is my mood he braced us he
knows that there's a deeper value for
him that he wants to fight for and he
has to he has to waken that every
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