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Let’s Talk Tanya – Tanya Themes Your Language. Your Life.

Tanya Themes, a groundbreaking new series by acclaimed Tanya scholar Rabbi Naftali Silberberg, each segment delves deeply into a single topic, exploring it through the Tanya’s lens. The series is presented in clear, relatable language, making these timeless teachings accessible to everyone. Discover how the Tanya’s revolutionary perspective can illuminate every facet of your life, offering immeasurable insight, inspiration, and guidance for living with divine purpose and connection.

The Cheapest Thrill: Compare struggles, not sins | 18 Adar I | Day 89 | Leap Year

4 mins; February 26, 2024

Excusable Behavior? Why we are always responsible for our choices | 17 Adar I | Day 88 | Leap Year

3 mins; February 25, 2024

Don’t Judge: How to overcome a condescending tendency | 16 Adar I | Day 87 | Leap Year

5 mins; February 24, 2024

Intimidation Tactic: When shouting and intimidating is a great strategy | 15 Adar I | Day 86 | Leap Year

5 mins; February 22, 2024

Wrong vs. Unholy: Ego crushing for one who has never sinned | 14 Adar I | Day 85 | Leap Year

3 mins; February 22, 2024

Re-repenting: Why yesterday’s teshuvah may not be enough for today | 13 Adar I | Day 84 | Leap Year

4 mins; February 21, 2024

Default Me vs. Essential Me: A nuanced understanding of our identity | 12 Adar I | Day 83 | Leap Year

5 mins; February 20, 2024

Hillel’s Great Kindness: Why the G-dly soul is called the “second soul" | 11 Adar I | Day 82 | Leap Year

3 mins; February 19, 2024

Who are you really? Are you a G-dly being with an animal soul? Or vice versa? | 10 Adar I | Day 81 | Leap Year

3 mins; February 18, 2024

Emotional Unresponsiveness: When Tanya prescribes the bitter pill of ego crushing | 9 Adar I | Day 80 | Leap Year

5 mins; February 17, 2024

Are You a Hypocrite? Why Judaism doesn’t believe in hypocrisy | 8 Adar I | Day 79 | Leap Year

4 mins; February 15, 2024

Faking Holiness: How to soften the internal struggle | 7 Adar I | Day 78 | Leap Year

4 mins; February 15, 2024

Is delaying innocent gratification a Jewish value? Suppression (Iskafya) | 6 Adar I | Day 77 | Leap Year

4 mins; February 14, 2024

The Divine Palate: The gift of internal struggle | 5 Adar I | Day 76 | Leap Year

4 mins; February 13, 2024

Cosmic Effect: What we accomplish by suppressing our unholy desires | 4 Adar I | Day 75 | Leap Year

5 mins; February 12, 2024

Unrealistic Expectations: The source of frustration over character flaws | 3 Adar I Day 74 | Leap Year

2 mins; February 11, 2024

Guilt vs. Shame: Mitzvah opportunities disguised as character flaws | 2 Adar I | Day 73 | Leap Year

4 mins; February 10, 2024

Positive Emotions: The why and how of happiness | 1 Adar I | Day 72 | Leap Year

7 mins; February 08, 2024

Complementary Paths: Two strategies to win the battle against the animal soul | 30 Shevat | Day 71 | Leap Year

5 mins; February 08, 2024

Anchored in Core Values: The eternal union created by a mitzvah | 29 Shevat | Day 70 | Leap Year

4 mins; February 07, 2024

In or Out? Advice for when you’re lazy to do a mitzvah | 28 Shevat | Day 69 | Leap Year

3 mins; February 06, 2024

Strong as a Lion When doing the mitzvah is not enough | 27 Shevat | Day 68 | Leap Year

3 mins; February 05, 2024

A Moment that Transcends Time: When the present moment is all that matters | 26 Shevat | Day 67 | Leap Year

3 mins; February 04, 2024

The Right Place for a Red Line: How to identify a spiritually life-or-death situation | 25 Shevat | Day 66 | Leap Year

4 mins; February 03, 2024

365 Pathways to Disunity: How Judaism boils down to a yes or no | 24 Shevat | Day 65 | Leap Year

5 mins; February 01, 2024

The Gate to the Home: When Torah study is a means to an end | 23 Shevat | Day 64 | Leap Year

3 mins; February 01, 2024

The Poodle and the Mona Lisa: When our lowliness is advantageous | 22 Shevat | Day 63 | Leap Year

2 mins; January 31, 2024

Absolute Unity: The advantage that Torah study holds over all other mitzvos | 21 Shevat | Day 62 | Leap Year

2 mins; January 30, 2024

248 Pathways to Unity: What are mitzvos REALLY about? | 20 Shevat | Day 61 | Leap Year

3 mins; January 29, 2024

On a Limb (II): When our energy is subsumed in the divine | 19 Shevat | Day 60 | Leap Year

2 mins; January 28, 2024

On a Limb (I): Why are mitzvos called the divine limbs? | 18 Shevat | Day 59 | Leap Year

3 mins; January 27, 2024

The Essence of Idolatry: A task that G-d finds distasteful—but necessary | 17 Shevat | Day 58 | Leap Year

5 mins; January 25, 2024

The Hiddenness of the Face: Why our perception doesn’t match the reality | 16 Shevat | Day 57 | Leap Year

6 mins; January 25, 2024

The View from Below: Is our world’s existence an illusion? | 15 Shevat | Day 56 | Leap Year

2 mins; January 24, 2024

Revealing Words: In what way is G-d’s speech different from ours? | 14 Shevat | Day 55 | Leap Year

4 mins; January 23, 2024

Deeper Insignificance: In what language do you feel? | 13 Shevat | Day 54 | Leap Year

3 mins; January 22, 2024

Unchanged: What does it mean that G-d “speaks”? | 12 Shevat | Day 53 | Leap Year

4 mins; January 21, 2024

One and Only: The two most important mitzvos | 11 Shevat | Day 52 | Leap Year

5 mins; January 20, 2024

G-d’s Candle: How our soul responds when everything is on the line | 10 Shevat | Day 51 | Leap Year

5 mins; January 18, 2024

A Relationship that Transcends Logic: Is your relationship with G-d supposed to make sense? | 9 Shevat | Day 50 | Leap Year

3 mins; January 18, 2024

Heirs to Love: The source of the Jewish soul | 8 Shevat | Day 49 | Leap Year

3 mins; January 17, 2024

VERY Practical: A second strategy for overcoming the animal soul | 7 Shevat | Day 48 | Leap Year

4 mins; January 16, 2024

The Anatomy of Teshuvah: How teshuvah unlocks the power of the soul | 6 Shevat | Day 47 | Leap Year

3 mins; January 15, 2024

The Addict’s Solution: Why some people actually cannot control their behavior | 5 Shevat | Day 46

3 mins; January 14, 2024

Practical: Why doing the right thing at all times is a reasonable expectation | 4 Shevat | Day 45

4 mins; January 13, 2024

The Long Way: Two fundamental principles in our service of G-d | 3 Shevat | Day 44

5 mins; January 11, 2024

One Hundred and One: Why reviewing your studies one hundred times isn’t enough | 2 Shevat | Day 43

5 mins; January 11, 2024

A Tale of Two Beinonis: They look awfully similar, but they’re not | 1 Shevat | Day 42

4 mins; January 10, 2024

Noun vs. Verb: The difference between “the servant of G-d” and the “one who serves G-d” | 29 Teves | Day 41

3 mins; January 09, 2024

Fake It Even If You Can’t Make It: Success not guaranteed. But go for the gold anyway! | 28 Teves | Day 40

3 mins; January 08, 2024

Mission Possible? Should one expect to be a Tzadik? | 27 Teves | Day 39

3 mins; January 07, 2024

Realistic Expectations: What does success in the service of G-d look like? | 26 Teves | Day 38

3 mins; January 06, 2024

Reality Check: The danger of declaring premature victory against the animal soul | 25 Teves | Day 37

4 mins; January 04, 2024

The Third Judge: When arbitration is needed to win the battle | 24 Teves | Day 36

3 mins; January 04, 2024

Mind Workout: Why prayer is such a vital component of the struggler’s day | 23 Teves | Day 35

4 mins; January 03, 2024

The Insides and the Outsides: Is the Book of Beinonim intended for non-beinonim? | 22 Teves | Day 34

3 mins; January 02, 2024

Mind Control: The feature that distinguishes the human being from all other species | 21 Teves | Day 33

3 mins; January 01, 2024

Temporary Ceasefire: When the Animal Soul is tranquilized | 20 Teves | Day 32

3 mins; December 31, 2023

Stalemate: The “intermediate person” who never sinned nor ever will | 19 Teves | Day 31

5 mins; December 30, 2023

Soul under Duress: When one’s success rate is below 100% | 18 Teves | Day 30

3 mins; December 28, 2023

Utter Selflessness: Elite among the elite | 17 Teves | Day 29

3 mins; December 28, 2023

Rare Company: The complete and incomplete Tzadik | 16 Teves | Day 28

3 mins; December 27, 2023

The Tzadik: A life of uncomplicated passion and service | 15 Teves | Day 27

2 mins; December 26, 2023

A Tale of Two Loves: What does the Animal Soul REALLY want? | 14 Teves | Day 26

5 mins; December 25, 2023

Two Kings. One City. The all-encompassing battle over our very identity | 13 Teves | Day 25

3 mins; December 24, 2023

Homebases: Same components but opposite dynamics | 12 Teves | Day 24

2 mins; December 23, 2023

Digesting Kelipah: Why non-kosher foods and secular studies are in a class of their own | 11 Teves | Day 23

5 mins; December 22, 2023

Hard Shell Variants: Why forgiveness and atonement don’t always go hand in hand | 10 Teves | Day 22

3 mins; December 21, 2023

Snatched from the Claws of Kelipah: When a sin becomes a mitzvah | 9 Teves | Day 21

5 mins; December 20, 2023

Soft Shell: Can enjoying a gourmet meal with fine wine be a holy experience? | 8 Teves | Day 20

6 mins; December 19, 2023

Hard Shell: A deeper understanding of why certain things are not kosher | 7 Teves | Day 19

2 mins; December 18, 2023

The Big Lie: What is “holiness”? | 6 Teves | Day 18

5 mins; December 17, 2023

Counterintelligence: The agenda of the animal soul | 5 Teves | Day 17

3 mins; December 16, 2023

Why do we study parts of Torah that seem irrelevant? Torah Study: Ultimate Unity | 4 Teves | Day 16

5 mins; December 14, 2023

Battle of the Worlds: The advantage of this world over the World to Come | 3 Teves | Day 15

4 mins; December 14, 2023

Fully Connected: Investing ourselves within our relationship with G-d | 2 Teves | Day 14

2 mins; December 13, 2023

The Superiority of the Garments: Bridging the gap between an infinite G-d and finite human beings | 1 Teves | Day 13

3 mins; December 12, 2023

Who You Are Vs. What You Do: What are the soul’s “garments”? | 29 Kislev | Day 11

3 mins; December 11, 2023

Connectivity: A deeper understanding of Daas | 28 Kislev | Day 10

3 mins; December 10, 2023

Awareness and Processing: A deeper understanding of Chochmah and Bina | 27 Kislev | Day 9

2 mins; December 09, 2023

Second Identity: Elevating the bar of our internal struggle | 26 Kislev | Day 8

4 mins; December 07, 2023

First Identity: The self-centered but often benign identity | 25 Kislev | Day 7

3 mins; December 07, 2023

The Space Between: Clearing up some misconceptions | 24 Kislev | Day 6

5 mins; December 06, 2023

The Work in Progress: Why the Alter Rebbe decided to publish the Tanya | 23 Kislev | Day 5

2 mins; December 05, 2023

One Book Fits All: Can one book address all the difficult questions? | 22 Kislev | Day 4

2 mins; December 04, 2023

The Drawbacks of the Written Word: Preempting the Readers’ Concerns | 21 Kislev | Day 3

3 mins; December 03, 2023

The Children Chime In: Introduction to the expanded version of Tanya | 20 Kislev | Day 2

3 mins; December 02, 2023

Tanya’s Mission Statement: The Book for Strugglers | 19 Kislev | Day 1

5 mins; December 01, 2023

Final Instructions: Concluding the Tanya! | 18 Kislev | Day 355

3 mins; November 30, 2023

The Key to Longevity: The unjust removal of a chazan from his position | 17 Kislev | Day 354

4 mins; November 29, 2023

The Mighty Stream: Unleashing the might of the soul’s essence | 16 Kislev | Day 353

4 mins; November 28, 2023

Underappreciation: The inner and outer aspects of Torah | 15 Kislev | Day 352

4 mins; November 27, 2023

The Song of Torah: How King David dealt with his anxiety | 14 Kislev | Day 351

5 mins; November 26, 2023

Irrelevant Laws? Why study the parts of the Torah that are utterly inapplicable? | 13 Kislev | Day 350

4 mins; November 25, 2023

Creating G-d’s Home: Why Torah study is so important | 12 Kislev | Day 349

1 min; November 23, 2023

It’s Not About Us: A different kind of wisdom | 11 Kislev | Day 348

1 min; November 23, 2023

The Big Reveal: When the physical garments don’t alter the substance | 10 Kislev | Day 347

3 mins; November 22, 2023

Stimulating Sources: Why elevating physical objects has an effect on Atzilus | 9 Kislev | Day 346

5 mins; November 21, 2023

The Direction of the Light: The damage caused when the lights depart the vessels | 8 Kislev Day 345

3 mins; November 20, 2023

Parent vs. Teacher: Where the essence of G-d is to be found | 7 Kislev | Day 344

4 mins; November 19, 2023

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