Video is also available – click to open A discussion on the theme “if you don’t respect g-d you don’t respect people”. this is the challenge of our times
app_tanya01_Chapter41_53
Chapter 41 – Part 2
Video is also available – click to open As mentioned in the title-page of Tanya, this work is based on the verse, “For this thing is very near to you, in your mouth and in your heart, that you may do it.” This means that observing the Torah and the mitzvot with one’s heart, with […]
Chapter 41 – Part 3
Video is also available – click to open ואזי אף אם בכל זאת לא תפול עליו אימה ופחד בהתגלות לבו In such a case, i.e., having contemplated this matter, then: even though after all this [meditation] no fear or dread descends upon him in a manifest manner in his heart, מכל מקום מאחר שמקבל עליו […]
Chapter 41 – Part 4
Video is also available – click to open After all this has been said, the Alter Rebbe will now say, that although this person fails to experience the fear even in his mind, yet since he thinks about those ideas which should evoke fear, he is fulfilling the command of fearing G‑d. ועוד, שבאמת מקיים […]
Chapter 41 – Part 5
Video is also available – click to open אך אמנם אמרו רז״ל: לעולם אל יוציא אדם עצמו מן הכלל Yet in fact, the Sages, of blessed memory, have said18 that “a man should never separate himself from the community.” לכן יתכוין ליחד ולדבקה בו יתברך, מקור נפשו האלקית ומקור נפשות כל ישראל Therefore he should […]
Chapter 41 – Part 6
Video is also available – click to open It has been previously noted that it is not enough to intend to unify one’s own soul with G‑d through the performance of Torah and mitzvot; one must also seek to unite the source of all the souls of Israel with the infinite Ein Sof-light. In point […]
Chapter 41 – Part 7
Video is also available – click to open The Alter Rebbe will now go on to say that a Jew’s desire for his own soul to be united with its source is an utterly honest one, for every Jew possesses an innate love of G‑d. אבל יחוד נפשו והתכללותה באור ה׳ להיות לאחדים But the […]
Chapter 41 – Part 8
Video is also available – click to open וכשלומד שעות הרבה רצופות, יש לו להתבונן בהכנה זו הנ״ל בכל שעה ושעה על כל פנים And when he studies for a number of consecutive hours he should reflect on the preparedness referred to above, at least at hourly intervals. כי בכל שעה ושעה היא המשכה אחרת […]
Chapter 42 – Part 1
Video is also available – click to open In the previous chapter the Alter Rebbe explained that fear of G‑d is a prerequisite to divine service. Every Jew is capable of attaining this level, by contemplating how “G‑d stands over him” and “searches his reins and heart [to see] if he is serving Him as […]
Chapter 42 – Part 2
Video is also available – click to open ועוד זאת, יתר על כן, בכל דור ודור יורדין ניצוצין מנשמת משה רבנו, עליו השלום, ומתלבשין בגוף ונפש של חכמי הדור, עיני העדה In addition and beyond this pervasive influence to the community as a whole, there descend, in every generation, sparks from the soul of our […]
