An Introduction to Tanya — Part 6

An Introduction to Tanya — Part 6

Three reasons not to write the Tanya:
  1. Not everyone has enough clarity to understand what he reads without getting confused.
  2. If a sefer is a product only שכל אנושי, human intellect, it’s reach and appeal is limited.
  3. Even when the Sefer is a product of שכל אלוקי, G-dly intellect, the complexity of הנסתרות, the hidden parts of Torah, makes it almost impossible to identify your part and avoda in Chassidus.

 

The answer to these questions:
  1. As a Rebbe he knows us from the inside and speaks Torah in a way that we can receive it.
  2. He knows us and is writing the familiar and therefore will reach us in spite of all three issues raised above.

 

Text-based Tanya classes from Rabbi Yossi Paltiel can be found on his site, http://www.insidechassidus.org/
Posted on thelongshortway.org with permission.

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