It Is Taught Tanya Podcast
Daily Teachings from the Tanya by Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Liadi (AKA “The Alter Rebbe”)In loving memory of Avraham Yitzchok ben Binyamin HaCohen Z”L
Episode 582- 8 Tammuz (Regular Year) - The Problem With the White Fragility Movement
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In today's episode we discuss what is involved in the mitzvah of Teshuva and how fasting is not part of this, despite what many think.
Iggeres HaTeshuva, end of Chapter 1.
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Episode 581 - 7 Tammuz (Regular Year) - Move Fast and Break Things
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In today's episode we discuss a teaching in masechet Yoma about the three types of atonement necessary in the cases of three different types of transgressions.
Iggeres HaTeshuva, Beginning of Chapter 1.
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Episode 580 - 6 Tammuz (Regular Year) - Moonlight
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In today's episode we discuss how moonlight can be used as a good analogy to help us understand how lower creations receive their vitality from the more loftier creations which radiate the 10 utterances of creation in a more direct way.
Sha'ar HaYichud V'Haemunah, end of chapter 12.
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Episode 578 - 4 Tammuz (Regular Year) - What Speaks Before We Think
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In today's episode we discuss why it is that we call the building blocks through which G-d creates the world "letters" even though G-d's Speech is far above and the source of our wisdom and intellects.
Sha'ar HaYichud V'Haemunah end of Chapter 11.
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Episode 579 - 5 Tammuz (Regular Year) - What Is an Invention?
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In today's episode we discuss how every individual creation receives its vitality from a particular combination, transposition or substitution of the 22 letters contained within the 10 utterances of creation.
Sha'ar HaYichud V'Haemunah, beginning of chapter 12.
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Episode 577 - 3 Tammuz (Regular Year) - How Do You Express Your Love?
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In today's episode we discuss the meaning and purpose of "letters of thought" and "letters of speech".
Sha'ar HaYichud V'Haemunah, Beginning of Chapter 11.
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Episode 576 - 2 Tammuz (Regular Year) - Why Does a Week Consist of Seven Days?
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In today's Tanya we discuss how the seven days of the week come into being from G-d's Attributes.
Sha'ar HaYichud V'Haemunah, end of Chapter 10
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Episode 575 - 1 Tammuz (Regular Year) - Don't Confuse the Allegory With Reality
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In today's episode we discuss how the allegory of the sun and sunlight we use to understand the unity of G-d with His Attributes, is a useful allegory for us, however we must know that it is only an allegory.
Sha'ar HaYichud V'Haemunah, middle of Chapter 10.
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Episode 574- 30 Sivan (Regular Year) - Why Doesn't It Hurt When You Get a Haircut?
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In today's episode we discuss how the fact that G-d is united with His Attributes is just as incomprehensible as G-d Himself is.
Sha'ar HaYichud V'Haemunah, end of Chapter 9.
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Episode 573- 29 Sivan (Regular Year) - G-d Is Not a Concept
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In today's episode we discuss how it is illogical to say that G-d is incomprehensible to us.
Sha'ar HaYichud V'Haemunah, middle of chapter 9.
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Episode 571 - 27 Sivan (Regular Year) - When Kids Like the Box Better Than the Toy
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In today's episode we discuss the attribute of Chochma and how it manifests within a person's and how all of the other attributes and soul garments stem out from it.
Sha'ar HaYichud V'HaEmunah, End of Chapter 8.
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Episode 572- 28 Sivan (Regular Year) - As Below, So Above. Not.
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In today's episode we discuss how G-d's Chochma (Wisdom, which is the highest attribute for us) can be likened to our Asiya (Action, the lowest attribute).
Sha'ar HaYichud V'Haemunah, Beginning of Chapter 9.
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Episode 570- 26 Sivan (Regular Year) - Against Empathy
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In today's episode we begin a discussion concerning how G-d's Attributes, as we reference them during prayer etc... are not the same as our own.'
Sha'ar HaYichud VeHaemuna Chapter 8.
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Episode 569- 25 Sivan (Regular Year) - Constraint Breeds Creativity
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In today's episode we discuss the process by which G-d constricts the original 10 Utterances of Creation in order to create everything and how the numerical value of a created being (i.e the gematria of its name), is the most diminished manifestation of its G-dly vitality.
Sha'ar HaYichud V'Haemunah, end of chapter 7.
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Episode 568 - 24 Sivan (Regular Year) - Is God Transcendent or Immanent?
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In today's episode, we explore the two aspects of G-d's Light known as: Sovev Kol Almin and Memalei Kol Almin.
Sha'ar HaYichud V'Haemunah, middle of chapter 7.
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Episode 567 - 23 Sivan (Regular Year) - The Mark of a Startup Is When the CEO Picks up the Trash
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In today's episode, we address the mistake that some scholars make in interpreting the Tzimtzum as described by the AriZal literally and we discuss how G-d remains unaffected by the changes in the world, unlike the soul which is affected by the happenings of the body.
Sha'ar HaYichud V'HaEmunah, Middle of Chapter 7.
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Episode 566 - 22 Sivan (Regular Year) - Supplemental Vs. Intrinsic Knowledge
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In today's episode we discuss how G-d's Knowledge is different than human knowledge and how we are incapable of understanding G-d's Knowledge.
Sha'ar HaYichud V'Haemunah, Middle of Chapter 7.
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Episode 564- 20 Sivan (Regular Year) - Time and Space
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In today's episode we discuss the origin of time and space.
Sha'ar HaYichud V'HaEmunah, middle of chapter 7.
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Episode 565- 21 Sivan (Regular Year) - Do Time and Space Really Exist?
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In today's episode we discuss how G-d is very much present within Space and Time through His attribute of Malchus.
Sha'ar HaYichud V'Haemunah, middle of chapter 7.
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Episode 563- 19 Sivan (Regular Year) - When Was the Last Time You Went to the Statue of Liberty?
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In today's episode we discuss G-d's Name of Adnus.
Sha'ar HaYichud V'Haemunah, Beginning of Chapter 7.
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Episode 562- 18 Sivan (Regular Year) - G-d Is Not the Soul of the World
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This episode has been generously sponsored by Chavi Kelemer in loving memory of Yehuda Ben Dov Ber whose joy of teaching Torah inspired many others. May this learning give his neshama an aliyah.
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In today's episode we discuss how the parable of the soul in relation to the body is not a good parallel to understanding G-d's relationship with His Creations.
Sha'ar HaYichud V'Haemunah end of Chapter 6.
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Episode 561- 17 Sivan (Regular Year) - Why Is My Gym Teacher Wearing a Business Suit?
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In today's episode we discuss how we can understand how the inclusion of all of the middos within one another is due to them being sourced in the same place, namely the One G-d.
Sha'ar HaYichud V'Haemunah, middle of chapter 6.
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Episode 560 - 16 Sivan (Regular Year) - Sometimes Love Means Saying No
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In today's episode we discuss G-d's Name Elokim.
Sha'ar HaYichud V'Haemunah, Beginning of Chpater 6.
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Episode 559- 15 Sivan (Regular Year) - Beyond Dualism
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In today's episode we discuss how G-d's Attributes of Chessed and Gevurah are sourced in the same place, however this is beyond the human intellect, no matter how lofty, to comprehend.
Sha'ar Hayichud V'Haemunah, Chapter 5.
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Episode 557- 13 Sivan (Regular Year) - G-d Is Not Unlimited
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In today's episode we introduce the concept of Tzimtzum; G-d's ability to constrict and conceal Himself so that created beings won't be nullified in their source. We discuss how it is just as beyond our comprehension to understand this attribute of contraction within G-d as it is for us to understand G-d's expansiveness.
Sha'ar HaYichud V'Haemunah, middle of Chapter 4.
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Episode 558- 14 Sivan (Regular Year) - Dark Light Made Into Vessels
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In today's episode we discuss the origin of G-d's attribute of Constraint.
Sha'ar HaYichud V'Haemunah, end of chapter 4.
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Episode 556- 12 Sivan (Regular Year) - Photosphere
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In today's episode we begin to discuss the idea of how just as the sun needs a protective shield for us to be able to handle its rays, so does G-d's Name of Havaya need a protective shield for us to be able to experience Him in a way that we can handle.
Sha'ar HaYichud V'Haemunah, Beginning of Chapter 4.
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Episode 555- 11 Sivan (Regular Year) - Why Don't We Disappear?
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In today's episode we discuss the sun in relation to its sunlight as an analogy to understand G-d in relation to His Creation and then bring up a challenge to this analogy.
Sha'ar HaYichud V'Haemunah, middle of Chapter 3.
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Episode 554- 10 Sivan (Regular Year) - E=MC2
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In today's episode we discuss how dependent creation is on G-d's Speech to sustain it.
Sha'ar HaYichud Ve'Haemunah, Beginning of Chapter 3
Article referenced:
99.9999999% of Your Body Is Empty Space
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Episode 553- 9 Sivan (Regular Year) - What Is More Miraculous than the Splitting of the Sea?
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In today's episode we discuss the difference between how G-d creates vs. how humans create.
Sha'ar HaYichud V'Haemuna, Beginning of Chapter 2.
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Episode 552- 8 Sivan (Regular Year) - Loquacity
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In today's episode, we discuss how those things which are not explicitly mentioned in the Ten Utterances of Creation still come from the letters of those Utternaces.
Sha'ar HaYichud V'Haemunah, End of Chapter 1.
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Episode 549- 5 Sivan (Regular Year) - Can You Choose to Love Someone?
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In today's Tanya we discuss the type of Love which Moshe Rabeinu wished to instill in every Jew.
Middle of Chinuch Katan.
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Episode 550- 6 Sivan (Regular Year) - Why Do Muscles Tear Before They Grow?
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In today's episode we discuss the deeper meaning behind the verse from Mishlei, “For a tzaddik may fall seven times, yet rises again.” (Mishlei, 24:16) and how this relates to the idea of "educating a child according to his ways etc"..
End of Chinuch Katan.
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Episode 551- 7 Sivan (Regular Year) - What Does Monotheism Really Mean?
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In today's episode we discuss how the Ten Utterances through which G-d created the world are the fundamental building blocks of all of creation.
Sha'ar HaYichud V'Haemuna, Beginning of Chapter 1
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Episode 548- 4 Sivan (Regular Year) - Beginner's Mind
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In today's episode we begin to discuss Chinuch Katan, which is the introduction to the section of the tanya known as Sha'ar HaYichud V'Haemunah. The section deals with understanding what it means to "educate a child according to his youth such that even when he ages it won't depart from him".
Beginning of Chinuch Katan.
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Episode 547- 3 Sivan (Regular Year) - A Candle Meditation
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In today's episode we discuss how performing mitzvos is likened to a candle.
Likkutei Amarim, end of chapter 53.
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Episode 546- 2 Sivan (Regular Year) - Where Has Divinity Gone?
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In today's episode we discuss what happened to the Shechina after the First Temple was destroyed, both in the times of the Second Temple, as well as in our times now that the Second Temple has been destroyed as well.
Likkutei Amarim, middle of Chapter 53.
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Episode 545- 1 Sivan (Regular Year) - A Blip in Nature
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In today's episode we discuss how the Tablets upon which were engraved the Ten Commandments revealed the Shechina in a much stronger way than any other physical creation.
Likkutei Amarim, Beginning of Chapter 53.
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Episode 543- 28 Iyar (Regular Year) - Who Are Your Parents, Really?
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In today's episode we discuss how the Shechina descends from world to world, focusing on it's descent from the world of Atzilus into the world of Briyah.
Likkutei Amarim, end of chapter 52.
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Episode 544 -29 Iyar (Regular Year) - Is G-d a She?
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In today's episode we discuss how the Schina descends from Malchus of Briya all the way down into our world.
Likkutei Amarim, End of Chapter 52.
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