It Is Taught Tanya Podcast
Episodes
718 episodes
Episode 679 17 Tishrei (Regular Year) - The Art of Changing Diapers
In today's episode we discuss how to accept physical hardships with joy. Iggeres HaKodesh, Middle of Epistle 22.Music by Shoshannah...
Episode 678 16 Tishrei (Regular Year) - Yes, That Skirt Makes You Look Fat
In today's episode we discuss that while concerns for physical matters stems from a good place, a person should be careful not to get too caught up in the natural tendency of caring about physicality for its own sake as well as why and how we s...
Episode 677 15 Tishrei (Regular Year) - Guru Worship
In today's Tanya we discuss the beginning of a letter in which the Alter Rebbe rebukes his Chassidim for coming to him with worldly concerns.Iggeres HaKodesh, Beginning of Epistle 22.Music by
Episode 676 14 Tishrei (Regular Year) - The Practice of Giving
In today's episode we discuss the power of giving Tzedaka on a regular basis (in contract to giving once as a lump sum).Iggeres HaKodesh, End of Epistle 21.Music by
Episode 675 13 Tishrei (Regular Year) - The Virtue of Alacrity
In today's episode we discuss how we should hasten to preform the mitzvos, especially the mitzva of Tzedaka. And that if we made a pledge to give a certain amount annually, that it should be given out in increments throughout the year rather th...
Episode 674 12 Tishrei (Regular Year) - Why Are We So Dependent Upon Plants?
In today's episode we discuss the concept of Or Chozer (Reflective Light) and how it applies to our physical world being the most powerful.Iggeres HaKodesh, End of Epistle 20.Music by
Episode 673 11 Tishrei (Regular Year) - Why Do So Many Cultures Revere "Mother Earth"?
In today's episode we discuss how the power of Ex Nihilo is most manifest in the physical earth.Iggeres HaKodesh, Middle of Epistle 20.Music by
Episode 672 10 Tishrei (Regular Year) - How the Light Gets Through
In today's episode we discuss how the lower worlds of Bi'YA contain the power to create their various entities and address the question of how a Transcendent G-d can create a finite world.Iggeres HaKodesh, Middle of Epistle 20....
Episode 671 9 Tishrei (Regular Year) - Through the Looking Glass
In today's episode we discuss how the Mitzvos have a higher source than the Torah.Iggeres HaKodesh, Middle of Epistle 20.Music by Shoshan...
Episode 670 8 Tishrei (Regular Year) - Why Are We So Obsessed With the Royal Family?
In today's episode we discuss how the main power of Ex Nihilo comes from Malchus of Atzilus.Iggeres HaKodesh, Epistle 20.Music by Shoshan...
Episode 669 7 Tishrei (Regular Year) - What Good Is Paint if You Don't Have a Brush
In today's episode we discuss spiritual aspects within the world of Atzilus which do not have the capacity to create Ex Nihilo.Iggeres HaKodesh, Middle of Epistle 20Music by
Episode 668 6 Tishrei (Regular Year) - How Does Creation Ex Nihilo Happen?
In today's episode we discuss the spiritual mechanisms behind ex nihilo creation. Iggeres HaKodesh, Middle of Epistle 20.Music by Shoshan...
Episode 667 5 Tishrei (Regular Year) What Makes Us So Special?
In today's episode we discuss the why only Ex Nihilo (in contrast to Cause and Effect creation) is called Creation (i.e Briya).Iggeres HaKodesh, Middle of Epistle 20.Music by
Episode 666 4 Tishrei (Regular Year) G-d is Not Spirituality
In today's episode we begin a discuss as to how it is possible that G-d is One with both His Lights and Vessels.Iggeres HaKodesh, Beginning of Epistle 20.Music by
Episode 665 3 Tishrei (Regular Year) Linguistics
In today's episode we discuss the meaning of the Thought Speech and Action of Letters.Iggeres HaKodesh, End of Epistle 19.Music by Shosha...
Episode 664 2 Tishrei (Regular Year) Layers of Self
In today's episode we discuss the external and internal aspects of G-d's attribute of Chochma and why Moshe Rabeinu was a good conduit for transmitting the Torah.Iggeres HaKodesh, Middle of Epistle 19.Music by
Episode 663 1 Tishrei (Regular Year) What the Show Love Is Blind Gets Right
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
Episode 662 - 29 Elul (Regular Year) - Were the Kabbalists Greater Than Moses?
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...
Episode 661 - 28 Elul (Regular Year) - Unquenchable Thirst
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
Episode 660 - 27 Elul (Regular Year) - You Can't Force Love
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
Episode 659 - 26 Elul (Regular Year) - When Will the Righteous Finally Rest?
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
Episode 658- 25 Elul (Regular Year) - When They Embody the Mystery They Had Strived to Comprehend
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.Mu...
Episode 657 - 24 Elul (Regular Year) - The Best Financial Investment
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
Episode 656 - 23 Elul (Regular Year) - How Can You Give if You Don't Have?
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