Daily Tanya Wednesday 3rd Elul Igeres Hakodesh 10: Awakening the Light for Rectification

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🕊 The Importance of Guarding the Torah

A person must uphold the Torah completely, without deviating even a hair’s breadth. Such devotion draws down divine light from the Infinite (Ein Sof).

⚠ The Damage of Straying

One who departs from the path of Torah diminishes the holiness above. This person loses the level of divine illumination they could have drawn through proper observance.

🌌 Repair Through Supreme Light

This spiritual distortion can only be corrected by drawing down the transcendent light that is beyond the worlds — called “Supernal Kindness” (Chesed Ila’a) and “Abundant Kindness” (Rav Chesed).

This light is infinite, unbounded, and surrounds all worlds from above.

🔄 Awakening the Light for Rectification

When a person awakens it through actions below (“Itaruta d’Letata”), this supreme light enters the worlds. It repairs all spiritual damage and renews the divine radiance with even greater strength.

✨ The Greatness of Ba’alei Teshuvah (Returnees)

Hence the teaching: “In the place where penitents stand, the perfectly righteous cannot stand.”

Those who return are able to bring down a new, even stronger light than before.

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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