Lessons in Tanya musings 20 1/6/2023

We explore chapter 11 of Tanya.  This chapter describes the different categories of rasha, the "wicked" person.  We discuss how the rasha seems to always have a means of turning things around, through having remorse and regret, except for the rare instance of the "rasha who only has evil," which is the one whose divine soul no longer dwells within.  We go a short tangent about the issue of suffering as penance from a spiritual care perspective as it relates to Tanya.  I offer perspective on how the paradigms being established in Tanya are getting to core issues about overcoming tendencies in our lives.