Tanya Chapter 23 Part 1

1. All phenomena is insignificant relative to the energy that creates them.

2. All phenomena is only its purpose not its existence.

3. All phenomena is in Hashem like emotion is in a person's "psyche".

Memorize These 3 Meditations.

Reorder

Order these 3 perspectives on reality from lowest to highest levels of Oneness with Hashem.

• All phenomena exists but is insignificant relative to the energy that creates them.

• All phenomena doesn't exist; rather only its purpose.

• All phenomena is in Hashem like emotion is in a person's "psyche".

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If everything is a daydream how can it hurt the dreamer?

The answer is that Hashem wants those things that He doesn't like.

His will creates them.

סטרא אחרה - אלוקים אחרים

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Why do things Hashem doesn't like ​exist ​ ​ ​

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Mashal of Phenomena

All phenomena get its life from Hashem's will for it to be.

Similar to employees having their job for as long as the employer wants to employ them.

If Hashem wants everything then why does the Zohar call the things that Hashem hates "dead"?

Multiple Choice

What really brings everything into existence.

• Hashem's speech

• Hashem's will for it.

• A yid who does a mitzva with it.

Open Ended

What does the Zohar call things that Hashem hates and what question deos the Alter Rebbe ask on that?

1. So too. Somethings Hashem really wants.

2. The things that can serve what He really wants.

3. And some things he is just waiting to get rid of.

1. The employees that fulfill the goal of the company.

2. The employees that could help the goal of the company.

3. And some employees he is just waiting to fire.

3 Levels of רצון - Adoration

Mashal

NiMshal

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The 3 levels of Hashem's will that creates all phenomena are. ​

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What Hashem Really Wants.

The things that can serve what He really wants.

The things He is just waiting to get rid off.

I Look Good! Want Me! Must Have!

The things that Hashem is just waiting to get rid off always attract attention to themselves and are very loud. They are loud because they need others for validation. They have no self worth. They are only worth what value we give them so they perpetually advertise how "good" they are.

Match

Match the following

• Phenomena that Hashem are the ultimate will of Hashem.

• Phenomena that helps fulfill the will of 'ה

• Phenomena that Hashem is waiting to get rid of.

Are modest and quiet b/c they know their value.

Could be humble or a little loud b/c it needs to "prove" itself.

Makes itself very loud b/c it survives from external gratification only.

• Are modest and quiet b/c they know their value.

• Could be humble or a little loud b/c it needs to "prove" itself.

• Makes itself very loud b/c it survives from external gratification only.

​It surges up like an eagle. The phenomena that Hashem is just waiting to get rid off, boasts and has a ego comparable to the height of an eagle's flight.

מַגְבִּיהַּ עַצְמָהּ כַּנֶּשֶׁר

Yechezkel said about Paroh that Paroh would say that the river is his and he made it. "The river is mine and I made it." Another expression that stresses how lesser things are loud and egotistical.

יְאוֹר לִי וַאֲנִי עֲשִׂיתִנִי

An expression used by Yeshaya to describe what the enemies of the Yiddin think about themselves. "I am and there is nothing besides for me."

אֲנִי וְאַפְסִי עוֹד

Multiple Choice

יְאוֹר לִי וַאֲנִי עֲשִׂיתִנִי

• said about Hashem.

• said about things that boast their soon to be dead qualities.

• said about Paroh

• said about enemies of the yiddin

Multiple Choice

אֲנִי וְאַפְסִי עוֹד

• said about things that boast their soon to be dead qualities.

• said about Paroh

• said about enemies of the yiddin

• said about Hashem.

Open Ended

Think. Imagine. A scenario where the secondary phenomena rises itself up like an eagle. Write 3-5 sentences. May do it on paper and hand it in.

Rabbi Abramov

Becuase Hashem is just waiting to get rid of them, they are considered already dead. As if they are not real even now. Just like an employee who is getting fired tomorrow is pretty much already gone.

Audio Response

Explain why the Zohar calls certain phenomena "dead" even though Hashem wants them and creates them.

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The Torah and Hashem are one.

דְּ״אוֹרַיְיתָא וְקוּדְשָׁא־בְּרִיךְ־הוּא כּוּלָּא חַד״,

The 248 Mitzvos are the 248 Limbs of the King.

דְּ״רַמַ״ח פִּיקּוּדִין אִינּוּן רַמַ״ח אֵבָרִין דְּמַלְכָּא״

Chapter 23 - Tying Together the Oneness and Torah and Mitzvos

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The Zohar uses "limbs" to describe Hashem's mitzvos becasue limbs is where a person's will is most revealed. So to mitzvos is where Hashem's

is most revealed.

Hashem's will for mitzva phenomena

So when you do a mitzva...

Hashem's will in its most revealed and graceful state is infusing you. You embody what Hashem really wanted in this world. The mitzvah act reveals Hashem's will like your limb reveals you. We know that our bodies are our identity. So to Hashem's mitzvos are His limbs. Unlike everything else in this world which is not His ultimate will.

Draw

Please show in drawing the contrast between Hashem's will in that act vs Hashem's will in other acts.

External Power becomes a chariot.

We do the Mitzvos with our mobile abilities.

The Mitzvos are done with our external power of action.

This external power is what becomes a chariot to Hashem.

A chariot can take its rider to places where the rider couldn't go Himself. Even though the rider is much better than the chariot.

Similarly a Yid can do for Hashem something that He "chose to not be able to do" on His own and needs us to do. He needs us, ego beings to do the will of the Supreme Being.

When a person does a Mitzva, he is like a rider to Hashem's chariot.

Audio Response

Please speak as if its your podcast and explain the previous slide. Use your own examples. Look back if you need to.

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​לְפִי שֶׁהַמִּצְוֹת הֵן פְּנִימִיּוּת רָצוֹן הָעֶלְיוֹן וְחֶפְצוֹ הָאֲמִיתִּי

Because the Mitzvos are Hashem's true inner most will and desire.

Audio Response

Please read this phrase ​לְפִי שֶׁהַמִּצְוֹת הֵן פְּנִימִיּוּת רָצוֹן הָעֶלְיוֹן וְחֶפְצוֹ הָאֲמִיתִּי

and explain it in English.

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The quality of everything in this world depends on how well the yiddin do Mitzvos and learn Torah. As long as yiddin are doing Mitzvos carefully and learning Torah properly everything else in this world prospers. When they stop. Everything loses its quality.

​כִּי כָּל חַיּוּתָם וְשִׁפְעָם תָּלוּי בְּמַעֲשֵׂה הַמִּצְוֹת שֶׁל הַתַּחְתּוֹנִים, כַּנּוֹדָע.

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The quality of everything in this world depends on how well the ​

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do ​

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and learn Torah. As long as yiddin are doing Mitzvos ​

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and learning Torah properly ​

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else in this world ​

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. When they stop. Everything loses its quality.

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yiddin

Mitzvos

carefully

everything

prospers

Audio Response

Please read כִּי כָּל חַיּוּתָם וְשִׁפְעָם תָּלוּי בְּמַעֲשֵׂה הַמִּצְוֹת שֶׁל הַתַּחְתּוֹנִים, כַּנּוֹדָע. and explain

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No Product - No Paycheck.

In the mashal of the employer. If the main employees who are supposed to carry out what the company is for are not going to do their jobs. The employer will stop supporting the rest of the assistant workers. But if they do their job well, he will give more and more to everyone in the company.

Open Ended

Please explain why it is so important to do mitzvos carefully and why the Rebbe would tell people to add in Mitzvos for their health. 5 full sentences.

With Torah we engage our thoughts and speech and become a clone of Hashem. Its likem meiosis with the DNA. So a deeper part of you becomes one with a deeper part of Hashem.

Torah

With Mitzvos we engage our actions and become Hashem's chariot.

Mitzvos

With Torah We are even Closer