Tanya classes – Rabbi Krasnianski: The Book of the Intermediates (Likutei Amarim) ch. 0 - 10

Now, each of these three distinctions and grades — Nefesh, Ruach and Neshamah — consists of ten faculties1

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Next his contemplation will give birth to the attribute of Chesed, expressed as a love of G‑d, so that his heart will glow with an intense love of G‑d like fiery flames, with a passion, desire and longing, and a yearning soul

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In addition [to its ten faculties — discussed in ch. 3], every divine soul (nefesh elokit) possesses three garments.

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Now these three “garments” deriving from the Torah and its commandments, though they are called [merely] “garments” of the Nefesh, Ruach and Neshamah,

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That is why this world with all it contains is called the world of kelipot and sitra achra — despite the fact that this world, too, receives its vitality from G‑d’s holiness.

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[Only] concerning repentance out of such great love has it been said9 that [the penitent’s] premeditated sins become, for him, like virtues, since through them (through the sins which previously had distanced him from G‑d) he attained when he repented to this great love.

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The Alter Rebbe now addresses a difficulty arising from his previous statement that every soul emanates from Divine wisdom. Since all souls emanate from one source — Supernal Wisdom — it should follow that all souls are of the same level and rank. How then do the various levels and ranks found in Jewish souls come about?

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כי על ידי דביקה בתלמידי חכמים, קשורות נפש רוח ונשמה של עמי הארץ ומיוחדות במהותן הראשון ושרשם שבחכמה עילאהFor, through attachment to the scholars, the Nefesh, Ruach and Neshamah of the ignorant are bound up and united with their original

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ואף דהקדוש ברוך הוא נקרא אין סוף, ולגדולתו אין חקר, ולית מחשבה תפיסא ביה כללAlthough the Holy One, blessed be He, is called Ein Sof (“Infinite”), and 5 “His greatness

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ועוד זאת במאכלות אסורות, שלכך נקראים בשם איסורThere is an additional aspect in the matter of forbidden foods, for which reason they are called issur (“bound” and attached):

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