[RBS] Thursday - Tanya Night at BTYA

[Beis Tefillah Yonah Avraham]

BS"D

Ellul is a great time to join the weekly Tanya shiur, given by HoRav
Malinowitz at 9:45 Thursday nights. Each shiur is self-contained, and we are
starting the 6th Perek. Ma'ariv is right afterwards at 10:15 PM.

The Tanya is based primarily on concepts culled from the Shelah HaKadosh and
the Maharal, but this is by no means a mere compilation and should not be
taken as such. Although the Baal HaTanya in his great humility seems to
imply that his work was merely a simple collection of what was already
easily accessible in earlier works, we must not make the grave mistake of
taking this at face value. It is interesting that the word Likutei or
compilation was used by many tzaddikim to describe or even title their
works. For example, Rebbe Nachman of Breslov called his magnum opus,
"Likutei Moharan." 
	
The Baal HaTanya focuses on the deeper aspects of the Torah that were first
explained in the holy Zohar and which were subsequently discussed by
Rishonim like the Ramban, the Avodas HaKodesh, and others. In their works,
however, these deep concepts were still not crystal clear and could only be
understood by very great scholars. Later, the Shelah HaKadosh and the
Maharal explained these concepts at greater length and made them much more
understandable, yet their very explanations were lengthy and not
sufficiently clear to be grasped by just anyone. The Baal HaTanya therefore
created a work that enables every Jew, no matter how simple, to have a
connection to the avodah of the innermost aspects of Torah.