Daily Tanya Chapter 31 Part 2: A message to tell oneself to bring himself to happiness (Monday, 6th Adar)

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6th Adar

  1. Coming to a state of joy after the broken heartedness:
  • After experiencing the above broken heartedness, one can experience true happiness and joy. This can be achieved through telling oneself the following message:

 

  1. The message one is to tell oneself to bring himself true joy:
  • One is to tell himself about the following message in order to doubly console himself after bringing himself to the true realization of his low spiritual state.
    • The true recognition of my bad spiritual state: It is absolutely true without doubt that I am very distanced from G-d to the ultimate extreme.
    • It is also true that I am low and despicable.
    • All the above, however, refers only to me alone, which is my body and to its animal soul that is within it.
    • The recognition that I have a G-dly soul: However, irrelevant of the above, I also contain an actual portion of G-d within me, which is found within even in the lowest of the low of Jews, which is the G-dly soul which contains an actual spark of G-dliness that is invested within it to enliven it.
    • The above spark however is in a state of exile and the more distanced that I am from G-d to the utmost, and the more repulsive and repellent that I am, the deeper and greater this exile of the G-dly soul becomes within me.
    • I will have compassion for the G-dly soul: Accordingly, the mercy and compassion that I must have for my G-dly soul is tremendous, and the more distanced I am from G-d and the greater and deeper the exile of my G-dly soul is, the greater the mercy and compassion I must have for it.
    • I will remove the G-dly soul from exile and return it to G-d: Accordingly, I will therefore place all my efforts and energies to remove and elevate the G-dly soul from its state of exile and return it to “its home of its youth” in which it was found prior to it descending into my body, in which it was incorporated within the light of G-d and completely united with G-d.
    • I will be careful in Torah and Mitzvah observance: I will accomplish this by placing all my effort and energy in the fulfillment of Torah and Mitzvahs, to invest within them all of my 10 soul character traits.
    • I will concentrate in Prayer: Especially, I will place effort in my service of prayer to scream to Hashem from the state of exile that my G-dly soul is in within my loathsome body, in order to remove it from its imprisonment and attach to G-d.

 

  1. Teshuvah and Maasim Tovim:
  • Through performing Torah and Mitzvahs and concentration in prayer, one performs not only repentance, but also good deeds. Indeed [repentance alone does not suffice to remove the G-dly soul from its exile and], it is the good deeds that returns the portion of G-d that is found within the soul to its root and source in G-d.

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Rejoicing in Service of G-d

All of one’s life should be focused on performing this service of G-d with great joy. One’s soul should rejoice over removing the G-dly soul from exile and returning it to “its father’s home”.

State of Repentance

One should be in a state of repentance throughout all of one’s days, returning the soul to G-d from exile, which can be done throughout the day.

Greatest Joy

No greater joy than leaving exile and captivity, similar to a king’s son freed from prison to return home.

Joy vs. Sadness

Even if the body remains in a state of disgust, one should not let this sadness remove the joy of the G-dly soul. The soul’s happiness is of greater value than the body’s sadness.

Spiritual Exodus (Yetzias Mitzrayim)

The joy of the soul is compared to the Exodus from Egypt, where the nation fled due to the evil within still being strong. Many verses describe running from evil and finding refuge in G-d.

Future Redemption

In the future, when G-d removes all evil, there will be no need to flee; instead, we will walk before G-d.

About The Author

Rabbi Yaakov Goldstein is a 6th generation descendent of the famous Chief Rabbi of Izhmir, Rav Yehoshua Avraham Krispin, who authored a number of Sefarim, and was a colleague of Rav Chaim Falagi, and father in-law of the Pesach Hadvir. He currently lives with his wife Shayna, and twelve children K”H, in Tzfas, Israel. Rabbi Goldstein received Semicha from Rabbi Schneur Zalman Labkowski of the Tomchei Temimim headquarters in 2005 and served as a chaplain in the Lotar/Kalatz and K9 unit of the IDF from years 2005-2008. He is also a certified Shochet, and has performed Hashgacha work in slaughterhouses. Rabbi Goldstein is the director of Shulchanaruchharav.com, the world’s leading web-based Halacha database, and is the director of the Home Study Semicha Program, a self-study web-based Semicha program. He is a prolific author of over 50 Sefarim studied by a wide range of readers throughout the world, which is used regularly in Semicha programs around the globe. He is a world renowned Posek, answering questions to a web-based market, and serves as a local Posek, Rav, and Lecturer, in the Tzemach Tzedek community Shul in Tzefas, Israel. His many classes can be heard both from his website, Vimeo and YouTube channel. Students can join live to classes given in the Tzemach Tzedek Shul, through the “בית חבד צפת Chabad Tsfat” YouTube channel.

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