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Tanya Chapter 39 part 9
Tanya with Rochel Schmukler - July 22, 2022 19:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 23 ratingsKeep doing good things, no matter your intention. When someone studies Torah with self-serving interests, that holy act becomes trapped within the kelipah. But this is only a temporary situation. Once a person returns to Hashem in teshuva, their previous acts of holiness are released and return ...
Tanya Chapter 39 part 8
Tanya with Rochel Schmukler - July 15, 2022 05:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 23 ratingsIs a good habit good enough? We are looking at someone whose Torah study and mitzvah performance is not done out of a space of love and fear of Hashem. He acts this way out of habit, having been trained to fear and serve Hashem from youth. This kind of service is not considered truly for the sak...
Tanya Chapter 39 part 7
Tanya with Rochel Schmukler - July 08, 2022 03:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 23 ratingsKnowing the difference can make all of the difference. By analyzing the reward for a mitzvah and being aware of its destination in the spiritual worlds, we can understand something of the essential make-up of a mitzvah. Knowing that a mitzvah powered by love and fear ascends to the higher worlds...
Tanya Chapter 39 part 6
Tanya with Rochel Schmukler - June 10, 2022 20:00 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 23 ratingsThe world of Atzilus is beyond the intellect of a created being, therefore it is the abode of the sublime souls who served Hashem in a way that completely transcends the intellect. As a chariot is nullified to the rider, these great tzadikim are completely surrendered to the Divine will–– and th...
Tanya Chapter 39 part 5
Tanya with Rochel Schmukler - May 27, 2022 05:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 23 ratingsThe world of Atzilus is a world of oneness, and it is completely beyond the grasp of a created being. In that sublime world, the ten sefirot are completely unified with their Emanator, and so utterly and infinitely transcend the mind of a limited creature, no matter how great. A created being do...
Tanya Chapter 39 part 4
Tanya with Rochel Schmukler - May 13, 2022 04:00 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 23 ratingsThere’s a distinction between the soul that serves and the service that it performs. Depending on the level of intention, the soul’s service of Torah and mitzvot rise to be incorporated within the ten sefirot, the Divine life force, in the higher worlds of either Beriah or Yetzirah. But ultimate...
Tanya Chapter 39 part 3
Tanya with Rochel Schmukler - May 06, 2022 21:00 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 23 ratingsNormally, a soul who served Hashem with instinctive love and fear abides in the world of Yetzirah, as does the “ruach” of a righteous person’s soul. However, on special occasions the soul gets to rise to a world beyond its normal self, a privilege not available to angels. Why this special treatm...
Tanya Chapter 39 part 2
Tanya with Rochel Schmukler - April 29, 2022 05:00 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 23 ratingsIn order to “inhabit” a world, there must be a common bond between the “self” and the “world.” The world of Yetzirah is a world of holy emotion and the angels who serve Hashem with their emotional instinct abide there. Emotions are their mode and so that is their world. The world of Beriah is a ...
Tanya Chapter 39: We can move beyond our natural holy instincts, but if not, angels operate by holy instinct too. part 1
Tanya with Rochel Schmukler - April 01, 2022 03:00 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 23 ratingsAnimals are instinctive beings of our physical world. But there are instinctive beings in the higher worlds too – these are the angels. Their powerful instincts of love or fear of Hashem are sublime and magnificent. However, it is a nature which they did not create by choice, by which they simpl...
Tanya Chapter 39 part 1
Tanya with Rochel Schmukler - April 01, 2022 03:00 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 23 ratingsAnimals are instinctive beings of our physical world. But there are instinctive beings in the higher worlds too – these are the angels. Their powerful instincts of love or fear of Hashem are sublime and magnificent. However, it is a nature which they did not create by choice, by which they simpl...
Tanya Chapter 38 part 6. You may lack the human power to generate new emotions. But that shouldn't stop you from acting on holy instinct
Tanya with Rochel Schmukler - March 24, 2022 22:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 23 ratingsWhen a person lacks the capacity to generate new emotions of awe and love for Hashem, he has another path. He can awaken his instinctive love, which is embedded deep within his soul. This powerful love is innate to the Jew and includes within it an element of fear. Being mindful of his deep desi...
Tanya Chapter 38 part 6
Tanya with Rochel Schmukler - March 24, 2022 22:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 23 ratingsWhen a person lacks the capacity to generate new emotions of awe and love for Hashem, he has another path. He can awaken his instinctive love, which is embedded deep within his soul. This powerful love is innate to the Jew and includes within it an element of fear. Being mindful of his deep desi...
Tanya Chapter 38 part 5. Your Divine instinct drives you to remain connected to your Source at any cost. Let that be the soul of your mitzvah
Tanya with Rochel Schmukler - March 04, 2022 05:00 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 23 ratingsA human being is characterized by his power of intellect and freedom of choice. A person with the ability to meditate upon Hashem’s greatness and to generate love and awe based on that awareness, when he uses that intention to power a mitzvah, his intention becomes like the soul of a human for t...
Tanya Chapter 38 part 5
Tanya with Rochel Schmukler - March 04, 2022 05:00 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 23 ratingsA human being is characterized by his power of intellect and freedom of choice. A person with the ability to meditate upon Hashem’s greatness and to generate love and awe based on that awareness, when he uses that intention to power a mitzvah, his intention becomes like the soul of a human for t...
Tanya Chapter 38 part 4
Tanya with Rochel Schmukler - February 18, 2022 19:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 23 ratingsThe correlation between the mitzvah and its intention is sourced in the supernal world of Atzilus: the intention to cleave to Hashem is sourced in the lights of Atzilus while the act or speech of the mitzvah is sourced in the vessels. Lights are about uncontained, unlimited manifestation of the ...
Tanya Chapter 38 part 4. Can you see how the mitzvah and its intention reflects the lights and vessels of the Supernal world of Atzilut?
Tanya with Rochel Schmukler - February 18, 2022 19:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 23 ratingsThe correlation between the mitzvah and its intention is sourced in the supernal world of Atzilus: the intention to cleave to Hashem is sourced in the lights of Atzilus while the act or speech of the mitzvah is sourced in the vessels. Lights are about uncontained, unlimited manifestation of the ...
Tanya Chapter 38 part 3. The soul of the mitzvah. How intention radiates Divine attachment more than action alone
Tanya with Rochel Schmukler - February 11, 2022 18:00 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 23 ratingsThe intention of attaching to Hashem while performing a mitzvah is like the soul of the mitzvah. It is not that the attachment that is forged by intention is greater than the attachment forged by the act or speech of the mitzvah. Both action and intention are equal in this regard, since they are...
Tanya Chapter 38 part 3
Tanya with Rochel Schmukler - February 11, 2022 18:00 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 23 ratingsThe intention of attaching to Hashem while performing a mitzvah is like the soul of the mitzvah. It is not that the attachment that is forged by intention is greater than the attachment forged by the act or speech of the mitzvah. Both action and intention are equal in this regard, since they are...
Tanya Chapter 38 part 2
Tanya with Rochel Schmukler - February 04, 2022 20:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 23 ratingsWhile everything of this world is equal in that all are subject to utter and total Divine concealment, the difference between one thing and another becomes vast when we consider the contraction or expansion of the Divine light which flows into each. Generally, this world is divided into four cat...
Tanya Chapter 38 part 2. The physical act of the mitzvah and its intention both manifest the Divine will. But there's a difference
Tanya with Rochel Schmukler - February 04, 2022 20:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 23 ratingsWhile everything of this world is equal in that all are subject to utter and total Divine concealment, the difference between one thing and another becomes vast when we consider the contraction or expansion of the Divine light which flows into each. Generally, this world is divided into four cat...
Tanya Chapter 38 part 1
Tanya with Rochel Schmukler - January 21, 2022 03:00 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 23 ratingsDrawing upon what we’ve learned until now, we can now understand the halacha –– that meditation is not valid in lieu of verbal articulation. Because the soul itself requires no perfecting; it came down here only to draw light upon the vital soul as well as the body. This is accomplished by actua...
Tanya Chapter 38: The power of intention. part 1
Tanya with Rochel Schmukler - January 21, 2022 03:00 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 23 ratingsDrawing upon what we’ve learned until now, we can now understand the halacha –– that meditation is not valid in lieu of verbal articulation. Because the soul itself requires no perfecting; it came down here only to draw light upon the vital soul as well as the body. This is accomplished by actua...
Tanya Chapter 37 part 8
Tanya with Rochel Schmukler - January 14, 2022 06:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 23 ratingsTorah study is called “calling through the Torah.” To study Torah is to call G-d by His Name, turning to His very essence, asking Him to stay with us and not to leave us alone. This deep call from our inner space pulls down the very essence of Hashem over the source of our souls. Being cognizan...
Tanya Chapter 37 part 7
Tanya with Rochel Schmukler - December 31, 2021 03:00 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 23 ratingsThis Women's Tanya Class is our interactive spiritual journey where we investigate, discuss and apply the revolutionary ideas presented in the Tanya, a foremost work of Kabbalah and Jewish Mysticism by the Alter Rebbe, Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Liadi.
Tanya Chapter 37 part 6
Tanya with Rochel Schmukler - December 24, 2021 19:00 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 23 ratingsSo much of your vital soul, and often its totality, is invested in earning a livelihood. Thus, when hard-earned money is given to charity, this one act brings the entire vital soul up to Hashem. That is why the Sages of the Land of Israel called charity simply “the mitzvah.” Because it embodies ...
Tanya Chapter 37 part 5
Tanya with Rochel Schmukler - December 17, 2021 02:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 23 ratingsThe soul is perfect, requiring no rectification. What the soul had above in terms of love and fear of Hashem was way beyond anything it could achieve in this world. Even if the soul will reach the highest levels humanly possible –– that of a complete tzadik who loves Hashem with pleasurable love...
Tanya Chapter 37 part 4
Tanya with Rochel Schmukler - December 10, 2021 06:00 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 23 ratingsWhen the vital soul of all of Israel is elevated to holiness, it will become a chariot for Hashem. This in turn causes the kelipat nogah life energy of the whole world to become elevated, a chariot to Hashem as well. Once the intermediate kelipah –– kelipat nogah –– ascends to holiness, all impu...
Tanya Chapter 37 part 3
Tanya with Rochel Schmukler - November 26, 2021 00:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 23 ratingsThe totality of this world’s life energy is elevated to holiness when we keep all of the mitzvot. The prohibitive commands serve to prevent our animal soul’s blood vessels from attaching and drawing nurture from the totally impure kelipot. And the positive commands serve to elevate our animal so...
Tanya Chapter 37 part 2
Tanya with Rochel Schmukler - November 18, 2021 23:00 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 23 ratingsThe more energy we invest in a speech-mitzvah, the more of the animal soul ascends to holiness. When the animal soul is absorbed in holiness, forgetfulness is alleviated and our Torah study is preserved. In our ambitions to elevate the entirety of this world, our mitzvah makes a huge impact. Bec...
Tanya Chapter 37: We are creating the future right now. part 1
Tanya with Rochel Schmukler - November 12, 2021 18:00 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 23 ratingsThe coming future will see “a home for Hashem” in this physical world –– total Divine revelation. This destiny is not detached from our present reality, a sudden transformation imposed from above. In fact, it is a direct product of our present reality, because the mitzvot we perform today actual...
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