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Tanya The Epistle on Repentance
The Epistle on Repentance: Chapter 04 – Part 1 – video
Certain penitential fasts, then, are to be actually undertaken, while others are to be redeemed through charity. ואולם כל הנ״ל הוא לגמר הכפרה ומירוק הנפש לה׳ אחר התשובה However, all we have said refers to the culmination of the atonement — to polishing the soul clean before G‑d, so that no vestige of former sin […]
The Epistle on Repentance: Chapter 04 – Part 2 – video
הנה להבין זאת מעט מזעיר To grasp even a minute glimmer6 of this, צריך להקדים מה שמבואר מהכתוב ומדברי רז״ל, ענין הכרת ומיתה בידי שמים we must preface what Scripture and our Sages say about [what is entailed by] excision and death by divine agency. כשעבר עבירה שחייבים עליה כרת, הי׳ מת ממש קודם חמשים […]
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The Epistle on Repentance: Chapter 04 – Part 3 – video
אך הענין יובן על פי מה שכתוב: כי חלק ה׳ עמו וגו׳ The key to this will be found in the phrase,14 “For [G‑d’s] people are part of G‑d…”; חלק משם הוי׳ ברוך הוא [they are] part of the Four-Letter Name of G‑d. כדכתיב: ויפח באפיו נשמת חיים Thus, describing G‑d’s infusion of a soul […]
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The Epistle on Repentance: Chapter 04 – Part 4 – video
As mentioned earlier, this verb indicates the internal aspect of the Divine flow of life-force, for “he who blows, does so from his innermost being.” Thus, the soul originated in the internal aspect of the life-force and flow issuing from G‑d. It is only afterwards, in order to enable it to be invested within the […]
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ושם אלקים הוא בחינת חיצוניות לגבי שם הויה ברוך הוא Similarly, the Name Elokim is an external state relative to the Tetragrammaton. אבל נשמת האדם, שהיא מבחינת פנימיות החיות, היא חלק שם הויה ברוך הוא But the soul of man, deriving from the internal aspect of the G‑dly vivifying power, is a part of the […]