Tanya lesson 2-3

אמונה - Faith

• What is אמונה?
• אמונה is something that cant be learned. if it is there is no reason for faith, we know that it is true. Faith is something above our understanding, but it dosent contradict our understanding, because אמונה is comes from our souls, every yid has a נשמה that is a part of Hashem, so we know Hashem is within us.
• Faith is something we inherited from Avraham Yitzchak and Yaakov, but even if its part of us, we dont always behave in the will of Hashem, like the thief that davens to Hashem to be successful. The thief believes in Hashem, so he davens to Hashem, but he still does something that Hashem dosent want.
• How can thief go against Hashem but daven to Hashem that he should succeed in doing what Hashem dosent want?

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• The אמונה only surrounds the thief, thats why he has אמונה but it dosent affect the way he acts. there says in Tehillim שכן ארץ ורעה אמונה. (we should shepherd faith) like a shepherd nurtures his flock we must nurture our אמונה. the word אמונה is related to the word אומן, which means a skilled craftsman, a craftsman becomes skilled by doing what they need to over and over again, so to do we have to practice thinking about his אמונה in Hashem and then it will be a part of his nature, and then you could see the belief in Hashem in the way he acts. the way we nurture our אמונה is by refining ourselves, by doing Mitzvos.
• When we get something, without our own effort then it dosent effect us as much as when we work for something. that is why the אמונה we got from Avraham Yitzchak and Yakkov dosent effect the way we act, it only surrounds us, but the אמונה which we work for will effect the way we act.

נפש אלקית

• The נפש אלקית has 5 parts. נפש, רוח, נשמה, חיה, יחידה. The first 3 are inside the body, the next 2 surrounds the body. The first level is נפש which is the power of Action. that is the level of the hands. With נפש we do the Mitzvos with Kaballos Ol. The next level is רוח, which is the power of speech and emotion, which is like character traits. רוח is by the heart, so we could serve Hashem with love and fear. The 3rd level is נשמה, which is the level of Intellect, and power of thought. with this level is in the head. The next level is חיה, which is the power of will. with this level gives us the power to desire for holiness and the want to serve Hashem. this level isnt in any specific place. The last level is יחידה, which comes from the word יחיד, alone, this level is always connected to Hashem and gives us the power to have מסירת נפש. this level is also not in any specific place.

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