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 706 14 Cheshvan (Regular Year) - What is Life?
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In today's episode we discuss how the life of a Tzaddik is never physical but rather is oriented towards Faith, Awe and Love (of G-d).
Iggeres HaKodesh, Middle of Epistle 27.
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Episode 705 13 Cheshvan (Regular Year) - The Effect of the Holy Man
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In today's episode we discuss the second half of the letter of consolation the Alter Rebbe wrote to his Chassidim after the passing of Rabbi Menachem Mendel of Vitebsk.
Iggeres HaKodesh, Middle of Epistle 27.
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Episode 704 12 Cheshvan (Regular Year) - A Holy Man Never Fully Dies
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In today's episode we begin discussing a letter of consolation the Alter Rebbe wrote to his followers after the passing of Rabbi Menachem Mendel of Vitebsk.
Iggeres HaKodesh, Beginning of Epistle 27.
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Episode 703 11 Cheshvan (Regular Year) - What Happens When All Bitcoin Are Mined?
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In today's episode we discuss what our focus will be in the Messianic Era when all of the fallen sparks have been redeemed.
Iggeres HaKodesh, End of Epistle 26.
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Episode 701 9 Cheshvan (Regular Year) - How Did I Not Know This Before??
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In today's episode we discuss how questions stem from klipos and how the study of gemara serves to redeem these klipos from exile.
Iggeres HaKodesh, Middle of Epistle 26.
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Episode 700 8 Cheshvan (Regular Year) - Sorting Through a Confusing World
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In today's episode we discuss how the debate format in Talmudic study, serves to extract the sparks of Supernal Wisdom from their entrapment in exile.
Iggeres HaKodesh, Middle of Epistle 26.
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Episode 699 7 Cheshvan Regular Year - I'm Not a Doctor I Just Play One on TV
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In today's episode we discuss how while all aspects of the Torah are sourced in Malchus of Atzilus but get vested within the lower worlds.
Iggeres HaKodesh, Middle of Epistle 26.
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Episode 698 6 Cheshvan Regular Year - The Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil
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In today's episode we discuss what the "Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil" means spiritually speaking, if it's not the study of Jewish Law.
Iggeres HaKodesh, Middle of Epistle 26.
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Episode 697 5 Cheshvan Regular Year - Sorry, Candy Won't Grow on Trees
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In today's episode we discuss how the laws of the Torah will still be relevant in the Messianic Era.
Iggeres HaKodesh, Middle of Epistle 26.
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Episode 696 4 Cheshvan Regular Year - It's Just a Bunch of Rabbis Who Can't Agree
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In today's episode we discuss a citation from the Zohar concerning the Messianic Era and discuss how Jewish law must also be termed the "Tree of Life" (and not the "Tree of Good and Bad" as one might initially think upon reading the cited excerpt.).
Iggeres HaKodesh, Beginning of Epistle 26.
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Episode 695 3 Cheshvan Regular Year - Occam's Razor
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In today's episode we discuss the conclusion of the Alter Rebbe's answer to the opponents of the teaching of the Ba'al Shem Tov regarding the Schechina being vested within idolators.
Iggeres HaKodesh, End of Epistle 25.
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Episode 694 2 Cheshvan (Regular Year) - The Obstacle is the Way
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In today's episode we discuss the Alter Rebbe's advice on what to do if someone distracts you during your prayers or learning.
Iggeres HaKodesh, Middle of Epistle 25.
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Episode 693 1 Cheshvan (Regular Year) - When the Back Overpowers the Front
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In today's episode we discuss how the bad overpowers the good in exile.
Iggeres HaKodesh, Middle of Epistle 25.
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Episode 692 30 Tishrei (Regular Year) - Why Is It Important to Say the Words Out Loud When You Pray
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In today's Tanya we learn why it is important to speak the words out loud when praying or learning Torah.
Iggeres HaKodesh, Middle of Epsistle 25.
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Episode 691 29 Tishrei (Regular Year) - G-d is One Creation Is Many How Is This Possible
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In today's episode we address how it is that G-d's Speech, which is One and Unified, radiates through the four general worlds.
Iggeres HaKodesh, Middle of Epistle 25.
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Episode 690 28 Tishrei (Regular Year) - Exile
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In today's episode we discuss how G-d's radiance flows down to our world in an exiled state.
Iggeres HaKodesh, Middle of Epistle 25.
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Episode 689 27 Tishrei (Regular Year) - What Do We Mean When We Say "G-d Speaks"?
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In today's episode we discuss the Kabbalistic understanding of G-d's "Speech".
Iggeres HaKodesh, Middle of Epistle 25.
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Episode 688 26 Tishrei (Regular Year) - Perpetual Creation
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In today's episode we discuss the Alter Rebbe's review of the teaching of the perpetuality of ex nihilo creation according to the Alter Rebbe.
Iggeres HaKodesh, Middle of Epistle 25.
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Episode 687 25 Tishrei (Regular Year) - How to Never Get Angry
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In today's episode we discuss the Alter Rebbe's commentary on a teaching of the Ba'al Shem Tov as to why anger is likened to idolatry.
Iggeres HaKodesh, Beginning of Epistle 25.
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Episode 686 24 Tishrei (Regular Year) - The Concert Violinist in the Subway Station
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In today's episode we discuss how one should not discuss personal affairs during times of communal prayers and how one must make themselves appear as if they are standing in front of a king while praying.
Iggeres HaKodesh, Beginning of Epistle 24.
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Episode 683 21 Tishrei (Regular Year) - The Limits of Individual Spirituality
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In this episode we discuss what is meant by the reward that is granted to an individual who studies Torah on their own and contrast this with how the Shechina is drawn down when ten Jews gather together and hovers above them, as it is too intense and infinite a radiance to be vested within their souls while the souls are limited by physical bodies.
Iggeres HaKodesh, Middle of Epistle 23.
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Episode 684 22 Tishrei (Regular Year) - Respect for Sanctity
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In today's episode we discuss how upset the Alter Rebbe was when people would speak about frivolous matters before or after praying in synagogue.
Iggeres HaKodesh, Middle of Epistle 23.
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Episode 685 23 Tishrei (Regular Year) - Twilight Learning
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In today's episode we discuss the Alter Rebbe's value for the practice of learning Ein Yaakov as well as practical Mitzvos in groups of (at least) 10 Jews on weekdays between Mincha and Ma'ariv prayers and to learn the halachos of Shabbos specifically with a congregation of 10 (or more) Jews on Shabbos at Mincha time. We also learn about how a person should not separate themselves from the congregation during this learning time.
Iggeres HaKodesh, Middle of Epistle 23.
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<...Episode 682 20 Tishrei (Regular Year) - The Power of Ten
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In today's episode we discuss the special power ten Jews gathered together have to draw down the Divine Presence (the Schina).
Iggeres HaKodesh, Beginning of Epistle 23.
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Episode 681 19 Tishrei (Regular Year) - Don't Be Judgy
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In today's episode we discuss the importance of not judging others even in one's heart.
Iggeres HaKodesh, End of Epistle 22.
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Episode 680 18 Tishrei (Regular Year) - The Benefit of Having a Stiff Neck
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In today's episode the Alter Rebbe pleads with his Chassidim to pray to G-d in a stubborn manner that is above intellect.
Iggeres HaKodesh, Middle of Epistle 22.
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Episode 679 17 Tishrei (Regular Year) - The Art of Changing Diapers
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In today's episode we discuss how to accept physical hardships with joy.
Iggeres HaKodesh, Middle of Epistle 22.
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Episode 676 14 Tishrei (Regular Year) - The Practice of Giving
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In today's episode we discuss the power of giving Tzedaka on a regular basis (in contract to giving once as a lump sum).
Iggeres HaKodesh, End of Epistle 21.
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Episode 677 15 Tishrei (Regular Year) - Guru Worship
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In today's Tanya we discuss the beginning of a letter in which the Alter Rebbe rebukes his Chassidim for coming to him with worldly concerns.
Iggeres HaKodesh, Beginning of Epistle 22.
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Episode 678 16 Tishrei (Regular Year) - Yes, That Skirt Makes You Look Fat
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In today's episode we discuss that while concerns for physical matters stems from a good place, a person should be careful not to get too caught up in the natural tendency of caring about physicality for its own sake as well as why and how we should accept physical suffering rather than try to avoid it.
Iggeres HaKodesh, Middle of Epistle 22.
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Episode 675 13 Tishrei (Regular Year) - The Virtue of Alacrity
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In today's episode we discuss how we should hasten to preform the mitzvos, especially the mitzva of Tzedaka. And that if we made a pledge to give a certain amount annually, that it should be given out in increments throughout the year rather than all at once towards the end of the year.
Iggeres HaKodesh, Beginning of Iggeres 21.
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Episode 674 12 Tishrei (Regular Year) - Why Are We So Dependent Upon Plants?
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In today's episode we discuss the concept of Or Chozer (Reflective Light) and how it applies to our physical world being the most powerful.
Iggeres HaKodesh, End of Epistle 20.
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Episode 673 11 Tishrei (Regular Year) - Why Do So Many Cultures Revere "Mother Earth"?
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In today's episode we discuss how the power of Ex Nihilo is most manifest in the physical earth.
Iggeres HaKodesh, Middle of Epistle 20.
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Episode 671 9 Tishrei (Regular Year) - Through the Looking Glass
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In today's episode we discuss how the Mitzvos have a higher source than the Torah.
Iggeres HaKodesh, Middle of Epistle 20.
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Episode 672 10 Tishrei (Regular Year) - How the Light Gets Through
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In today's episode we discuss how the lower worlds of Bi'YA contain the power to create their various entities and address the question of how a Transcendent G-d can create a finite world.
Iggeres HaKodesh, Middle of Epistle 20.
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Episode 670 8 Tishrei (Regular Year) - Why Are We So Obsessed With the Royal Family?
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In today's episode we discuss how the main power of Ex Nihilo comes from Malchus of Atzilus.
Iggeres HaKodesh, Epistle 20.
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Episode 669 7 Tishrei (Regular Year) - What Good Is Paint if You Don't Have a Brush
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In today's episode we discuss spiritual aspects within the world of Atzilus which do not have the capacity to create Ex Nihilo.
Iggeres HaKodesh, Middle of Epistle 20
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Episode 668 6 Tishrei (Regular Year) - How Does Creation Ex Nihilo Happen?
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In today's episode we discuss the spiritual mechanisms behind ex nihilo creation.
Iggeres HaKodesh, Middle of Epistle 20.
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Episode 667 5 Tishrei (Regular Year) What Makes Us So Special?
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In today's episode we discuss the why only Ex Nihilo (in contrast to Cause and Effect creation) is called Creation (i.e Briya).
Iggeres HaKodesh, Middle of Epistle 20.
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Episode 666 4 Tishrei (Regular Year) G-d is Not Spirituality
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In today's episode we begin a discuss as to how it is possible that G-d is One with both His Lights and Vessels.
Iggeres HaKodesh, Beginning of Epistle 20.
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