Tanya Chapter 13 Class 2 (106)(This is a shorter class).We continue analyzing the Gemarahs sighted on the first page of the Tanya.This class speaks to the idea of …כל העולם כולו אומרים לך צדיק אתה היא בעיניך כרשע there is a great difference between רשע and כרשע.כרשע means that he is vulnerable to the same…

Tanya Chapter 13 Class 1 (105) We begin addressing the מאמרי חז”ל cited in פרק א 1) בינוני זה וזה שופטן2) This means two voices not two sources of action.3) הלכה כדברי המכריע isn’t simply a majority, it is actually some kind of resolution.4) הקב”ה עוזרו means that the פנימיות הנשמה supports the good choices.5)…

Tanya Chapter 12 Class 7 (104a), Part One.The idea of Hirhur and Machshava are discussed here again, what is and what isn’t an Aveira. Tanya Chapter 12 Class 7 (104b), Part Two.The Beinoni in matters of בין אדם לחבירו both in action and in thought, to learn from Yosef HaTzadik.In Pnimiyus, thought is worse than…

Tanya Chapter 12 Class 6 (103)More on Teva and Elokus and help from above, because the Nefesh HaBahamis is still present and expressed in its stronghold, the left side of the heart even if it never fills the space of “the small city” which means the body. The Beinoni’s Yetzer HaRa (“is limited” by its)…

Tanya Chapter 12 Class 5 (102).Review of last few weeks: 1) Melucha and Memshala2) Two motivations for the Beinoni when he is (only) a Moshel:A. The Teva (nature, which means the animal Soul!!) of מוח שליט על הלבB. The idea that light of Goodness and G-dliness being stronger than darkness. This is actually the G-dly…

Tanya Chapter 12, Class 4 (101).The second way the beinoni (when in the Memshala state) defeats the Yetzer HaRa is due to the idea that this (good vs evil) is a fight between light and darkness (not only “nature.”)And this is also through the help of Chochma, like the idea of הקב”ה עוזרו in the…

Tanya Perek 12, Class 3 (100).The מדריגת הבינוני works because he goes from מלוכה to ממשלה and back again (whenever he chooses to).This is the first class on ממשלה.The idea of מוח שליט על הלב is first of all שליט and מולך.Secondly, it is the idea of בטבע- the nature (even of the Jewish) animal…

Tanya Perek 12, Class 2 (99).The מדריגא הבינוני (as opposed to the מדת הבינוני) is about the interface (alternating) of מלוכה (close to Tzadik) and ממשלה (Beinoni, struggle, discipline).This class describes the times of Davening and Krias Shma (when he is Tzadik-like or Melucha) 1) עת רצון because of the time and how he uses…

Tanya Perek 12, Class 1 (98).Introduction to Beinoni.The Klipa never gets the Nefesh HaElokis, where the two meet the body.The two ideas of מדריגת הבינוני and מדת הבינוני and the great difference between the two.מדת הבינוני is really a functional “one day (hour, minute) at a time kind of thing.מדריגת הבינוני is actually a level…

Tanya Chapter 11 (Class 2). Review.Complete Rasha, equal and opposite the perfect Tzadik.When we include Makif the idea of Ze Leumas Ze breaks down.On the Makif level we are always Jewish, and in some way can awaken.