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Tanya 5 Iyar – Chapter 44d

Apr 28, 2026

7:47

These loves are already inside you. Loving Hashem as your life, and loving Him more than your life.But how you access them determines how your mitzvos rise.With no feeling, it remains in Asiyah.With natural love, it rises to Yetzirah.With worked, meditated love, it reaches Beriah.And at the highest level, beyond intellect, it reaches Atzilus. Complete unity.The love is there.Your avodah determines how high it goes.

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Tanya 4 Iyar – Chapter 44c

Apr 28, 2026

8:58

This love of a Jew for Hashem, like a son for a father, is natural.But if you don’t meditate on it, it stays hidden.Even if it feels artificial, it’s real. It’s who you are.Meditation reveals what’s already there.And even a small awakening becomes wings.Hashem takes that thought and lifts your Torah and mitzvos with it.It may start faint.But it still lifts you.

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Tanya 3 Iyar – Chapter 44b

Apr 27, 2026

6:22

A second love: like a child for a parent.He loves them more than himself. He would give everything, even his life, for them.This is different from nafshi ivisicha.There, Hashem is your life. Here, you love Hashem more than your life.This is the love of Moshe.And a spark of it lives in every Jew.Reflect on it,and it awakens.

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Tanya 2 Iyar – Chapter 44a

Apr 27, 2026

8:47

Until now: two loves.A gift from above, and one you develop.Now, a love that is both.“Nafshi ivisicha” — my soul desires You.Not just I desire Hashem. Hashem is my soul.He is my life.Just like a person naturally wants to live, so the soul longs for Hashem.It’s already inside you. A gift.But it must be awakened through avodah.It’s built in.But only revealed if you seek it.

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Tanya 1 Iyar – Chapter 43c

Apr 26, 2026

7:44

The normal order is yirah → ahavah.First comes fear of Hashem. Through Torah and mitzvos, that develops into love.On higher levels, this is essential.Even on lower levels, ahavas olam comes from basic yirah.There are rare exceptions, like Rabbi Eliezer ben Dordaya, where intense love bursts first.But that is not the path.The path is steady: build yirah, do the avodah, and love will follow.Fear builds the vessel.Love fills it.

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Tanya 30 Nissan – Chapter 43b

Apr 26, 2026

8:25

Just like there are two levels of yirah, there are two levels of ahavah.Ahavah rabbah is the higher love.There is no sense of self at all. Only Hashem. This comes from a deeper level of yirah.Ahavas olam is the more accessible love.You meditate on the world and see how it is nullified to Hashem, how He fills everything. That awakens a yearning for Him.Even if you feel nothing, think it through.Truth itself generates longing.Nullification leads to the highest love.Meditation awakens the path to it.

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Tanya 29 Nissan – Chapter 43a

Apr 24, 2026

11:11

There are two levels of yirah.A lower yirah comes first. You see Hashem in the world and that awakens basic fear. Without this, there is no Torah.But Torah itself leads to a higher yirah.When you learn and understand, you begin to “see” Hashem creating the world in real time. The world is not static. It is being brought into existence every moment.That awareness leads to a deeper awe.Basic yirah opens the door.Deeper understanding lets you gaze.

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Tanya 28 Nissan – Chapter 42e

Apr 23, 2026

9:47

You don’t see Hashem like you see a king.But even with a human king, you’re not afraid of what you see. You’re afraid of the life and authority behind it.So too with Hashem.Look at the world. The order, the flow, the life within it. Train yourself to see what’s behind it.That is emunah. Learning to perceive the unseen.And make it real through action. By bowing, by submitting.Think it. See it. Live it.And yirah becomes real.

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Tanya 27 Nissan – Chapter 42d

Apr 23, 2026

5:40

Yirah comes from awareness.Hashem is right here. He fills heaven and earth and knows everything within you - fully present, yet completely unaffected.Take time to think about this daily.Then, in the moment, pause and recall it.That awareness stops a person from rebelling.Because this is your inner Moshe, the built-in ability to sense Hashem.Reflect on it…and it awakens.

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Tanya 26 Nissan – Chapter 42c

Apr 22, 2026

7:41

Yirah begins with awareness:Hashem sees everything and hears everything.Not like a body - these are only analogies.Hashem has no limits. He perceives all without being affected.Like a soul senses the body - but infinitely more.He is fully present, fully aware, yet completely beyond influence.This is hard to grasp.But every Jew knows it deep down.And that awareness awakens yirah.

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Tanya 25 Nissan – Chapter 42b

Apr 21, 2026

12:25

Every Jew has a hidden treasure: yiras Shamayim.It’s there - but covered. Materialism blocks access.Your avodah is to break through.Refine the outer shell. Train your mind to focus on Hashem until it becomes real.If you seek it, you will find it.

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Tanya 24 Nissan – Chapter 42a

Apr 21, 2026

9:43

Hashem asks: all He wants is yirah.But is that really easy?For Moshe, it was.And the answer is: every Jew has a Moshe within.A point of clarity, of awareness of Hashem.And in every generation, there is a Moshe who awakens that point.Yirah is not foreign.It’s already inside you, waiting to be revealed.

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Tanya 23 Nissan – Chapter 41g

Apr 20, 2026

9:34

Pause and ask: why am I learning?This is the Torah of Hashem.Your soul wants to be bound to Him, and Torah, tefillah, and mitzvos are the connection.Every hour is new Divine energy.So pause, and reconnect.Like a prince freed from prison, the neshama rises when it learns.Let the flow happen.Let Hashem move through you.

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Tanya 22 Nissan – Chapter 41f

Apr 17, 2026

7:27

Deep down, the soul longs only for Hashem.At life's final moment, when everything else fades, that truth is revealed. It's just you and Him.But you don't have to wait for that moment.Each morning you can say: Hashem, this soul is Yours. I give it back now.Not by dying - but by living.Through Torah, tefillah, and mitzvos, you return your soul to its Source.Eilecha Hashem nafshi esa.

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Tanya 21 Nissan – Chapter 41e

Apr 17, 2026

7:00

B'shem kol Yisrael may not feel natural.Loving Hashem for yourself is instinctive. Loving on behalf of all Jews can feel distant.But it's there.Deep down, every Jew wants what Hashem wants — including unity.Think about it. Access it. And it begins to awaken.At your core, you already include all of Klal Yisrael.

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Tanya 20 Nissan – Chapter 41d

Apr 16, 2026

6:34

Avodah is not just personal. It is for Klal Yisrael.When you do a mitzvah, you are not only connecting yourself to Hashem. You are uniting Kudsha Brich Hu and the Shechinah on behalf of all Jews.That is why we say L'shem yichud… B'shem kol Yisrael.Every mitzvah draws Hashem into the world. For everyone.You carry all of us with you.

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Tanya 19 Nissan – Chapter 41c

Apr 16, 2026

8:45

Even if you feel no awe of Hashem, not in your heart and not even in your mind, keep doing the mitzvos.The act itself is avodah. You are serving Hashem just by doing.Yirah is one mitzvah. Avodah is another. You already have that.And the truth is, every Jew can reach at least a basic level of awe.You need both love and fear. Like a bird needs two wings to fly.

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Tanya 18 Nissan – Chapter 41b

Apr 15, 2026

12:06

Yirah is not only general awe of Hashem. It is specific.When you put on tefillin, you align your mind with Hashem.When you wear a tallis, you draw G-dliness onto yourself.Awe comes from realizing what you are doing.You are not just performing a mitzvah.You are aligning with the Divine.

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Tanya 17 Nissan – Chapter 41a

Apr 14, 2026

10:10

Avodah needs two wings: love and awe.Awe comes from awareness.Hashem is everywhere, and He wants to be King over you. That kingship depends on your acceptance.See yourself like Adam, standing alone before Hashem. The world depends on your choice.When you reflect on that, a sense of awe awakens.And that awe becomes the foundation of every mitzvah.Pause before action.Accept His kingship, and then serve.

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Tanya 16 Nissan – Chapter 40d

Apr 14, 2026

6:42

Love and awe are themselves mitzvos. So why are they called “wings”?Because there are two types.There is love and awe as an end, a state of closeness and delight.And there is love and awe as a means, driving avodah and lifting Torah and mitzvos.The “wings” are the second type.In this world, the goal is not to remain in feeling. It is to let the feeling carry you into action.That is why Torah is called water.The thirst for Hashem is meant to lead you there.Love is not the destination.It is what lifts you forward.

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Tanya 15 Nissan – Chapter 40c

Apr 13, 2026

9:04

Love and awe are the wings of a mitzvah.The mitzvah itself is valid even without them, like a bird without wings is still a bird. But without wings, it cannot rise.Kavanah gives it flight.Natural emotion lifts it to Yetzirah.Intellectual, developed feeling lifts it to Beriah.The act connects.The love and awe elevate.

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Tanya 14 Nissan – Chapter 40b

Mar 30, 2026

9:41

Torah is one with Hashem.But as it is learned in this world, it is concealed. The Divine light is there, yet not revealed.That is why simply learning is not enough.When you learn with love and awe, you uncover and elevate the Torah, allowing its G-dliness to shine.The Torah is always Divine.Kavanah reveals it.

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Tanya 13 Nissan - Chapter 40a

Mar 29, 2026

8:29

Chazal praise the one who arrives in Gan Eden with his learning in his hand—meaning it rose with him.There are three outcomes in Torah learning: Learned lishmah — it rises with you.Learned with no intent — relearn it with kavanah, and it rises. Learned for self-benefit — it needs teshuvah to be elevated.If not, it remains below.The same Torah can stay down or rise with you.It depends how you learn it.

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Tanya 12 Nissan – Chapter 39f

Mar 29, 2026

7:37

Not all Torah without kavanah is the same.If it is learned shelo lishmah, for ego or self-benefit, the Torah goes into exile. To elevate it, you need teshuvah.That is why Chazal say: learn anyway. One day, through teshuvah, it will be lifted.But if it was learned with no intention at all, just dry and empty, it is different. It is not in exile. It is simply lacking wings.Learn it again with kavanah, and it rises.Self-interest requires teshuvah.Emptiness just needs elevation.

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Tanya 11 Nissan – Chapter 39e

Mar 29, 2026

6:19

A mitzvah done with no kavanah remains in Asiyah.To rise, it needs some measure of love and awe. That inner connection is what carries it upward.You cannot truly serve Hashem without some connection to Him.The act creates the mitzvah.The love and awe lift it higher.

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Tanya 10 Nissan – Chapter 39d

Mar 29, 2026

6:05

Where your mitzvah rises depends on your kavanah. With no feeling, it remains in Asiyah. With natural, emotional love and awe, it rises to Yetzirah. With intellectual, developed love and awe, it reaches Beriah. The action is the same. The inner experience determines its height.

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Tanya 9 Nissan – Chapter 39c

Mar 27, 2026

15:01

There are four worlds, ascending:Asiyah – action. This is our world, the only place where mitzvos can actually be performed.Yetzirah – formation. The lower Gan Eden, where souls feel the emotional impact of their mitzvos.Beriah – creation. The higher Gan Eden, where souls experience deep intellectual pleasure in G-dliness.Atzilus – emanation. Pure G-dliness, beyond self. Only rare tzaddikim reach this level, becoming completely nullified, like the Avos.We act in this world.But our actions echo through all worlds.

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Tanya 8 Nissan - Chapter 39b

Mar 27, 2026

11:09

The level of love and awe determines where the mitzvah rises.Instinctive emotion reaches Yetzirah, the world of angels.Intellectual, developed emotion reaches Beriah, the world of souls.But the neshama is greater than the angels.An angel serves instinctively. A Jew struggles, chooses, and rises. That gives the neshama a deeper connection.That is why on Shabbos and Rosh Chodesh, the soul can taste the level of Beriah, something even angels cannot access.The struggle lifts you higher than instinct ever could.

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Tanya 7 Nissan – Chapter 39a

Mar 26, 2026

10:08

The level of your kavanah determines where your mitzvah rises.When it comes from natural, instinctive emotion, it rises to Yetzirah—the world of angels, who serve Hashem with fixed feeling.But when it comes from understanding and meditation, it rises to Beriah—the world of souls, where the emotions are born from intellect.Emotion reaches Yetzirah.Understanding lifts it to Beriah.

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Tanya 6 Nissan – Chapter 38e

Mar 25, 2026

8:31

There are two kinds of kavanah.One is natural love and awe—chai—instinctive, like an animal.The other comes from meditation and understanding—medaber—a conscious, developed awareness.These correspond to the deeper life of the mitzvah.The action, thought, and speech are the guf—domem and tzomeach.The kavanah is the neshamah—chai and medaber.Both connect to Hashem.But the higher the kavanah, the more alive and elevated the mitzvah becomes.

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Tanya 5 Nissan – Chapter 38d

Mar 24, 2026

7:52

There are two layers within a mitzvah.The action, thought, and speech are like domem–tzomeach—the body of the mitzvah.The kavanah, the inner love and awe, is like chai–medaber—the life of the mitzvah.Both are needed. Both connect to Hashem.But the kavanah reveals the deeper life within the act.The deed brings it into the world.The kavanah makes it alive.

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Tanya 4 Nissan – Chapter 38c

Mar 23, 2026

7:19

There are four levels in creation: domem, tzomeach, chai, medaber. Each has life, but not equally revealed.So too in mitzvos.The action is the body, like domem and tzomeach.The kavanah is the life, like chai and medaber.Both are valid. Both connect to Hashem.But kavanah reveals the life within the mitzvah, just as higher forms of life express more vitality.The act connects.The kavanah brings it alive.

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Tanya 3 Nissan – Chapter 38b

Mar 22, 2026

4:23

Physical and spiritual are equally distant from Hashem.The difference is not closeness. It is concealment.The physical conceals more. The spiritual conceals less.That is why kavanah matters. It does not make you “closer” to Hashem, but it reveals Him more within the mitzvah.The action brings Him in.The spirit lets you see Him.

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Tanya 2 Nissan – Chapter 38a

Mar 20, 2026

8:32

The key is the action. Say the words. Move your lips.Even without full kavanah, the mitzvah is real. Hashem wants the act, because it brings G-dliness into the physical world.But kavanah gives it life. It adds a spiritual force that lifts the mitzvah higher.The body is essential.The soul elevates it.

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Tanya 1 Nissan – Chapter 37h

Mar 19, 2026

6:56

Torah study is called mikra—reading, but also calling.When you learn Torah, you are not just reading words. You are calling down the Essence of Hashem into the world.The Divine flows through your speech.That awareness should fill a person with awe.You are not studying Torah.You are channeling Hashem Himself

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Tanya 29 Adar – Chapter 37g

Mar 18, 2026

6:19

Sometimes mitzvos take priority. Sometimes Torah does.If a mitzvah cannot be done by others, you must go do it. Hashem wants the physical act, transforming the world.But if others can do it, you stay with Torah. Because Torah is Hashem’s mind, carrying a deeper, more infinite light than mitzvos, which are His limbs.Mitzvos transform the world.Torah transforms the source.Knowing which comes first is part of the avodah.

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Tanya 28 Adar - Chapter 37f

Mar 17, 2026

9:32

Mitzvos transform the physical world.But Torah has a unique advantage.Torah refines the inside of a person. It shapes the mind, the intellect, the deepest faculties of thought and speech.Mitzvos are the limbs.Torah is the mind.And when you transform the mind, you transform everything.

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Tanya 27 Adar – Chapter 37e

Mar 16, 2026

6:32

No mitzvah transforms the world like tzedakah.Other mitzvos engage a part of you. Tzedakah engages your whole life. The money you give represents the time, effort, and energy you poured into earning it.When you give it to Hashem, you are giving a piece of your life.That is why tzedakah transforms the physical world more than any other mitzvah.And because it elevates so much of the world, tzedakah hastens the redemption more than anything else.

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Tanya 25 Adar – Chapter 37c

Mar 15, 2026

9:27

Every Jew is unique.Hashem placed 600,000 root souls in the world, each with a portion of reality only they can elevate.Through the 248 mitzvos, you draw G-dliness into your corner of the world. By avoiding the 365 prohibitions, you prevent impurity from entering it.Your place, your body, your relationships, the food you eat, the people you meet—no one else has your portion.Which means no one else can do your work.By living as a Jew in your place, you transform the world around you.

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Tanya 24 Adar – Chapter 37b

Mar 13, 2026

11:00

When you do a mitzvah, you are not only elevating your own soul.The energy you use - the food you ate, the animal it came from, the world that produced it - all rises with you.A mitzvah lifts the entire chain of existence connected to that act.Live a life of Torah and mitzvos, and the world around you is elevated.Do the opposite, and that same energy feeds the system of klipah.Every action connects the world either upward or downward.

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Tanya 22 Adar – Chapter 36b

Mar 13, 2026

9:57

The truth is that Hashem is fully present in the world. The concealment is only in our perception.At Matan Torah the veil lifted. For a moment, the true reality was visible: G-dliness filling the world. After the sin of the Golden Calf, that vision was hidden again and we returned to the concealment of Olam Hazeh.Mashiach will not create a new reality. He will restore the original one.The Divine presence was always here. We simply did not see it.Our avodah is to uncover that truth until the world returns to its natural state: open G-dliness.

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Tanya 23 Adar - Chapter 37a

Mar 12, 2026

11:54

When you learn Torah and perform mitzvos, you use physical energy, and that energy transforms the world.The goal is not to escape the physical. The goal is that the physical world itself becomes a home for Hashem.Food, animals, plants, money - everything becomes holy when used for a mitzvah: the leather for tefillin, the parchment for a Sefer Torah, the fruit for an esrog.Each mitzvah takes a piece of the world and aligns it with the Divine.Step by step, action by action, we are preparing the world to become a dwelling place for Hashem.

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Tanya 21 Adar – Chapter 36a

Mar 11, 2026

14:05

The purpose of creation: dirah b’tachtonim - Hashem wants a home in the lowest world.Not in heaven. Here.Every struggle and every concealment is the place where His light is meant to be revealed.Hashem is already everywhere.Our mission is to uncover Him.The challenges are not the obstacle.They are the doorway.

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Tanya 20 Adar – Chapter 35e

Mar 9, 2026

8:33

You don’t have to fully win the battle.The moment you push back against the yetzer hara, you are already aligned with Hashem. In that moment, the Shechinah rests upon you.It may not yet fully dwell within you, but it is already there, surrounding you, lifting you.The struggle itself creates the connection.So don’t give up.Keep fighting.

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Tanya 19 Adar – Chapter 35d

Mar 8, 2026

7:43

Complete unity with Hashem happens specifically through physical mitzvos.When you learn Torah, the Shechinah rests in your inner garments—your thought and speech. But Hashem’s desire is to dwell in the external, the physical body and the material world.That can only happen through a physical mitzvah.If you want the deepest oneness with the Divine, it is not only through spiritual experience.It is through action

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Tanya 18 Adar – Chapter 35c

Mar 8, 2026

5:57

The soul alone cannot fully unite with Hashem. As long as it remains a separate being, some distance remains.Mitzvos are different. They are the pure will of Hashem.When you do a mitzvah, there is no ego in between. You align directly with the Divine will. That is what pulls a person out of existential loneliness and into connection.Through mitzvos, the human being and the Divine will meet without separation.

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Tanya 17 Adar – Chapter 35b

Mar 6, 2026

8:01

Yesterday we said: the Shechinah rests above every Jew. The body is the wick, the flame is the Divine Presence, and the oil is the mitzvos. Through mitzvos the flame can burn.But why can’t the soul itself be the oil? After all, the soul is a piece of Hashem.Because even the holiest soul is still a separate being. It experiences Hashem, but it is not one with Him.Mitzvos are different. They are the inner will of Hashem, the very purpose of creation. Everything else in the world is external to that purpose.Mitzvos do not block the Divine light. They are completely united with Him.That is why mitzvos are the oil that allows the flame of the Shechinah to rest.

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Tanya 16 Adar – Chapter 35a

Mar 5, 2026

10:27

Why this endless struggle with the sitra achra? Why must a person remain in constant tension with the animal soul?Because the body is the wick and the Shechinah is the flame.A flame cannot rest on a wick alone. It needs oil. The oil is the mitzvos, the physical actions through which Divine light can rest in the world.That is why mitzvos must be done in the physical. Hashem wants the light to burn here.Your struggle is not a flaw.It is the wick through which the flame of the Shechinah shines.

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Tanya 15 Adar – Chapter 34b

Mar 5, 2026

9:52

It is not only when you learn Torah that you become a conduit for Divine energy.When you set fixed times for Torah, that holiness spills into the rest of your day.The same is true with tzedakah. When you give a portion of your earnings to Hashem, it elevates the rest. If you give twenty percent to tzedakah, the remaining eighty percent becomes elevated with it.In this way, holiness does not remain in isolated moments. Your entire day, your work, your resources all become part of a dwelling place for Hashem.

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Tanya 14 Adar – Chapter 34a

Mar 3, 2026

11:03

The joy of knowing Hashem dwells within you is overwhelming.But you cannot live in Purim all year. You cannot stay in ad d’lo yada constantly. At Matan Torah, the souls left their bodies. That intensity cannot be sustained.So you contain it.Hashem commanded the Mishkan so the Shechinah would have a dwelling place. Today, that dwelling is you. When you learn Torah, especially halachah, you house the Divine Presence.The goal is not endless ecstasy. It is to build a home.And that is the deepest joy: becoming a Mishkan for Hashem.

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