Lessons in Tanya Musings Day 35 2/6/2023

Part one of Chapter 24  This chapter explores how violating the 365 prohibitions of the Torah leads to a sense of separation from Gd.  The previous chapters looked at how our actions lead to a closeness and a unification with the divine.  This chapter shares the opposite, reflecting on different degrees of sin.  We mess up because of our sense of self and we mess up because the animal soul influences us to the point of folly.  The latter might help us understand the difference between the Beinoni and the Rasha.  Finally, this lesson also contains a short message for Tu B'Shvat at the end of the recording.