It Is Taught Tanya Podcast

Daily Teachings from the Tanya by Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Liadi (AKA “The Alter Rebbe”)In loving memory of Avraham Yitzchok ben Binyamin HaCohen Z”L

Tu B'Shvat and Self Transformation

Send us a text In today's episode we discuss the deeper meaning behind Man being likened to a tree and what this means for our own self growth and transformation and ultimate purpose in the world. Based on an excerpt from Toras Menach 5722 (15 Shevat Farbrengen). Music by Shoshannah. Follow us on: Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram To sponsor an episode or for any other inquiries, email: itistaught@gmail.com Support the show

02-10
43:32

How to overcome anxiety and take control of your life according to Tanya. AKA You Are Not Your Thoughts.

Send us a text In this bonus episode we discuss the idea of how cultivating an awareness that you are not your thoughts (nor your speech nor your actions), can help you overcome anxiety and life a more proactive life according to Tanya. Music by Shoshannah. Follow us on: Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram To sponsor an episode or for any other inquiries, email: itistaught@gmail.com Support the show

01-07
21:42

BONUS ISRAEL SERIES Why is the Whole World Against Us? FULL LECTURE

Send us a text In this lecture, we'll be discussing the deeper spiritual underpinnings of the nations of the world accusations against the Jews of being "occupiers" of the Land of Israel and of stealing the land. Does their claim have any basis? How should we as Jews address these allegations? What is the true root of the Jewish connection to the Land of Israel? These and other questions will be addressed. Based on a Sicha of the Rebbe on the first Rashi of Parshas Breishis, Given in the ...

12-26
04:11:18

BONUS ISRAEL SERIES: Why is the Whole World Against Us? Part Nine

Send us a text In today's final episode of this series, we discuss how our discussion regarding conquering the Land of Israel relates not only to our own personal Torah learning process but also to the Torah itself and its decent into our world. ------------------------ In this short series of episodes, we'll be discussing the deeper spiritual underpinnings of the nations of the world accusations against the Jews of being "occupiers" of the Land of Israel and of stealing the land. Doe...

12-12
41:13

Episode 663 1 Tishrei (Regular Year) What the Show Love Is Blind Gets Right

Send us a text In today's episode we discuss the difference between "seeing" and "hearing" spiritually speaking and how this relates to the prophets vs. the Kabbalists. Iggeres HaKodesh, Middle of Epistle 19. Music by Shoshannah. Follow us on: Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram To sponsor an episode or for any other inquiries, email: itistaught@gmail.com Support the show

09-22
37:20

Episode 662 - 29 Elul (Regular Year) - Were the Kabbalists Greater Than Moses?

Send us a text In today's episode we bring up the question as to how it is that the Arizal was able to write about inner levels of sephiros and worlds which were above Moshe Rabeinu's ability to understand or experience, if Moshe was the greatest prophet that ever lived. Iggeres HaKodesh, Beginning of Epistle 19. Music by Shoshannah. Follow us on: Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram To sponsor an episode or for any other inquiries, email: itistaught@gmail.com Supp...

09-22
22:12

Episode 661 - 28 Elul (Regular Year) - Unquenchable Thirst

Send us a text In today's episode we discuss the second type of Love of G-d which is innate, albeit latent, within all Jews. Iggeres HaKodesh, end of Epistle 18. Music by Shoshannah. Follow us on: Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram To sponsor an episode or for any other inquiries, email: itistaught@gmail.com Support the show

09-21
28:46

Episode 660 - 27 Elul (Regular Year) - You Can't Force Love

Send us a text In today's episode we discuss the first of two levels of Love of G-d, called Aha'av B'Ta'anugim. Iggeres HaKodesh, Beginning of Epistle 18. Music by Shoshannah. Follow us on: Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram To sponsor an episode or for any other inquiries, email: itistaught@gmail.com Support the show

09-19
22:01

Episode 659 - 26 Elul (Regular Year) - When Will the Righteous Finally Rest?

Send us a text In today's episode we discuss how the Righteous will only truly be able to rest and experience G-d's Infinite Light in the time of the Resurrection. Iggeres HaKodesh, End of Epistle 17. Music by Shoshannah. Follow us on: Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram To sponsor an episode or for any other inquiries, email: itistaught@gmail.com Support the show

09-19
13:27

Episode 658- 25 Elul (Regular Year) - When They Embody the Mystery They Had Strived to Comprehend

Send us a text In today's episode we discuss how Tzaddikim will experience a greater revelation of G-dliness in the Future Era in the time of the Resurrection vs the revelation they experience in Gan Eden. Iggeres HaKodesh, end of Epistle 17. Music by Shoshannah. Follow us on: Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram To sponsor an episode or for any other inquiries, email: itistaught@gmail.com Support the show

09-18
20:56

Episode 657 - 24 Elul (Regular Year) - The Best Financial Investment

Send us a text In today's episode we discuss how giving charity reaps "fruit" in this world and "principal" for the world to come and what this means. Iggeres HaKodesh, Beginning of Epistle 17. Music by Shoshannah. Follow us on: Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram To sponsor an episode or for any other inquiries, email: itistaught@gmail.com Support the show

09-17
22:12

Episode 656 - 23 Elul (Regular Year) - How Can You Give if You Don't Have?

Send us a text In today's episode we discuss different reasons why a person should still give charity even if they are just as impoverished as the one they are giving to. Iggeres HaKodesh, end of Epistle 16. Music by Shoshannah. Follow us on: Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram To sponsor an episode or for any other inquiries, email: itistaught@gmail.com Support the show

09-16
17:22

Episode 655 - 22 Elul (Regular Year) - Do You Still Have to Give Charity if You Are Poor?

Send us a text In today's episode we discuss why even a poor person is not exempt from giving charity. Iggeres HaKodesh, Beginning of Epistle 16. Music by Shoshannah. Follow us on: Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram To sponsor an episode or for any other inquiries, email: itistaught@gmail.com Support the show

09-15
15:53

Episode 654 - 21 Elul (Regular Year) - Where Do Emotions Come From?

Send us a text In today's episode we discuss how the emotions of the G-dly soul stem from the intellectual attributes of the G-dly soul. Iggeres HaKodesh, End of Epistle 15. Music by Shoshannah. Follow us on: Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram To sponsor an episode or for any other inquiries, email: itistaught@gmail.com Support the show

09-14
25:02

Episode 653 - 20 Elul (Regular Year) - A Window Into Your Higher Self

Send us a text In this episode we discuss how the emotive and intellectual attributes previously discussed are merely metaphors for the attributes of the G-dly Soul. Iggeres HaKodesh, end of Epistle 15. Music by Shoshannah. Follow us on: Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram To sponsor an episode or for any other inquiries, email: itistaught@gmail.com Support the show

09-12
30:31

Episode 652 - 19 Elul (Regular Year) - Topography of Emotions

Send us a text In today's episode, we discuss the first six emotive attributes as they manifest within a person and how these emotive attributes are external manifestations of two internal emotive attributes, all of which are sourced in and correlate in quality with the three intellectual attributes. Iggeres HaKodesh, middle of Epistle 15. Music by Shoshannah. Follow us on: Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram To sponsor an episode or for any other inquiries, email:...

09-12
50:25

Episode 651 - 18 Elul (Regular Year) - Dust and Ashes

Send us a text In today's episode we discuss how Avraham's attribute of Chessed in relation to the Supernal Attribute of Chessed can be likened to the relationship between the ashes of a burnt piece of wood to the wood or tree itself. Iggeres HaKodesh, Middle of Epistle 15. Music by Shoshannah. Follow us on: Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram To sponsor an episode or for any other inquiries, email: itistaught@gmail.com Support the show

09-11
25:43

Episode 650 - 17 Elul (Regular Year) - Study Man; Know G-d

Send us a text In today's episode we begin a discussion in which we come to understand how we can come to understand G-d (somewhat) through studying the spiritual make up of Man. Iggeres HaKodesh, beginning of Epistle 15. Music by Shoshannah. Follow us on: Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram To sponsor an episode or for any other inquiries, email: itistaught@gmail.com Support the show

09-10
14:52

Episode 649 - 16 Elul (Regular Year) - When G-d Withdraws From the World

Send us a text In today's episode we discuss what is meant by the teaching that the eyes of G-d are always on the Land of Israel. Iggeres HaKodesh, End of Epistle 14. Music by Shoshannah. Follow us on: Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram To sponsor an episode or for any other inquiries, email: itistaught@gmail.com Support the show

09-09
16:18

Episode 648 - 15 Elul (Regular Year) - Why Is It So Much Easier to Start Projects Than to Finish Them?

Send us a text In today's episode we begin discussing a letter the Alter Rebbe wrote to his Chassidim, asking him to be just as passionate about giving to a fund that was established to raise money for the land of Israel as they were when the fund was first established. Iggeres HaKodesh, Beginning of Epistle 14. Music by Shoshannah. Follow us on: Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram To sponsor an episode or for any other inquiries, email: itistaught@gmail.com Suppo...

09-08
18:57

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