Perek 5, Class 1, (62). Tanya (text based)

The word Tfisa bothers us. Because having Atzmus through Mitzvos is Him draping us and not the other way around. He introduces the answer by discussing ideas, that they are simultaneously holding the ideas and the ideas are holding them. He will argue that Torah (as opposed to Mitzvos) are “Makif AND Mukaf”.

Perek 5, Class 2, (63). Tanya (text based)

Review of last week. The idea of מקיף ומוקף in the שכל of תורה and on a higher level, in the אלקות of תורה. In exploring this we visited the idea of תורה being מזון וגם לבוש. Two ideas in מזון: A)You become (one with) it. B) It (the Torah) becomes one with you, it...

Perek 5, Class 3, (64). Tanya (text based)

Continued Perek 5. More on the advantage of Torah over Mitzvos as Torah is both “food” and a garment. But there are two ideas in this itself: A) as it brings the person closer to Hashem ולשמה היינו לקשר נפשו ודעתו בהוי’ה B) It fulfills the divine purpose לשם התורה עצמה as will be explained...

Perek 5, Class 4, (65). Tanya (text based)

More on the two levels of לשמה. A) to bring us closer to him. The discussion from the רמב”ם’s introduction to פרק חלק about reward and punishment and serving Hashem for a higher purpose, culminating in לשמה. See also הלכות תשובה פרק י. The idea is that even the לשמה is to connect me with...

Perek 5, Class 5, (66). Tanya (text based)

This class deals with end of perek 5.