Tanya - regular year - Rabbi Chaim Wolosow

This shiur explains how the Alter Rebbe answers those who objected to the Baal Shem Tov's teaching that the Shechinah is enclothed in the kelipos. He shows that the idea rests on the Arizal and on the plain faith that Hashem fills the whole world, a matter of revealed Torah rather than hidden mysteries. https://www.torahrecordings.com/tanya/regularyear/002/003

This shiur explains the Alter Rebbe's analysis of the Ra'aya Mehemna passage on the Tree of Life and the Tree of Good and Evil, and the apparent implication that studying the laws of issur v'heter belongs to the Tree of Good and Evil. He raises the difficulties this creates from the Gemara, the Yerushalmi and the Zohar itself. https://www.torahrecordings.com/tanya/regularyear/002/004

This shiur explains the Alter Rebbe's teaching that anger over worldly matters is akin to idol worship, while one who is disturbed during prayer should see it as a call to pray with deeper concentration. Contemplating the exile of the Shechinah turns even the distraction into a means of elevating one's service. https://www.torahrecordings.com/tanya/regularyear/002/002

This shiur explains the Alter Rebbe's teaching that the souls of the nations derive from the ten crowns of impurity and draw their sustenance from the Shechinah in exile among the kelipos. Their vitality comes only through many contractions and from the "back" of holiness, while Jewish souls draw directly from the Divine "face." https://www.torahrecordings.com/tanya/regularyear/002/001

Igeres Hakodesh - Chapter 25 https://www.torahrecordings.com/tanya/regularyear/001/030