Tanya classes – Rabbi Krasnianski: The Book of the Intermediates (Likutei Amarim) ch. 11-20

as, indeed, our Sages have said,10 “Would that a man pray the whole day long!”

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1“One is the opposite of the other”: the “rasha who knows good” is the antithesis of the “tzaddik who knows evil.”

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So, too, in matters “between man and his fellow-man.” The Beinoni will not grant expression in thought, speech or action to any evil feelings toward his fellow.

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Accordingly, we may understand the comment of our Sages1 that “Beinonim are judged by both [their good and evil inclinations]” — both “judge” him and dictate his conduct. As Scriptural support for this contention, the Talmud cites:

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Even if one’s entire aspiration is in G‑d’s Torah, which he studies day and night for its own sake,

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ולמשל כמו בנפש האדם כשמדבר דבור אחד, שדבור זה לבדו כלא ממש אפילו לגבי כללות נפשו המדברתTo illustrate from the soul of a human being: When a man utters a word, this single word is as absolutely nothing even when compared only to his

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In the previous chapters the Alter Rebbe discussed the Torah’s assertion that “it is very near” to us to fulfill all the commandments with a love and fear of G‑d. He explained that it is indeed “very near,” by means

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