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Lessons in Tanya Click Here for Vol. I - Likkutei AmarimClick Here for Vol. II - Shaar Hayichud VehaemunaClick Here for Vol. III - Igeret HaTeshuvahClick Here for Vol. IV - Igeret HakodeshClick Here for Vol. V - Kuntres Acharon
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Lessons in Tanya is a well-lit and accessible gateway to the Tanya - the fundamental, classic work upon which all concepts of Chabad Chasidism are based. The Tanya is indispensable to an understanding of the Chasidic movement and the philosophy behind it. More importantly, it offers guidance for every facet of the day-to-day life of a Jew in his or her service to G-d.

Lessons In Tanya takes the acute ideas and concepts of the Tanya and makes them readily accessible to the eager student, as it leads the reader through every paragraph and page, illuminating the mystical, often allusive, Talmudic, Kabbalistic, and Scriptural verses and concepts. It fills many gaps in what the terse Tanya text assumes to be the reader's background knowledge.

Each of the lectures was examined and amended by the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem M. Schneersohn, so that much of the material includes the Rebbe's insights and explanatory comments.



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Posted: Oct 6, 2011
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B"H
If it is destructive, it would be because the things it would destroy are probably unsound to begin with. The push and the pull. The testing, and the refinement of metals, etc. The best gold is smelted many times, and then put through the acid test again, and again. The finest diamonds and those which have been under the highest pressure of the earth. a destroying malak does so because that's his job. Holiness is the goal. Anything that appraoched Mt. Sinai was destroyed; people not authorized, sheep, cattle...no problemo.
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Posted: June 3, 2011
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Posted: Mar 12, 2009
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Posted: Feb 8, 2007
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Posted: Jan 4, 2007
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All my life I have tried to find the meaning of my first name, but to no avail. Now I find out that I actually have something that I am named after. I would like to read this, as I am now intrigued.

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Posted: Nov 10, 2006
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I have been studying the Tanya for about 2 1/2 years now.

The concepts I like best are those that help me overcome my evil inclination.

It also does a great job explaining tzimzum and other concepts.
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  Lessons in Tanya is a well-lit and accessible gateway to the Tanya - the fundamental, classic work upon which all concepts of Chabad Chasidism are based.

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