The 20th of Kislev: The Tanya

00:01 In the Yam Yam of today, Chof Kislav, the Rebbe writes Benigea to the publishing of the Tanya, which took place on Chof Kislav, the final release from the binder in Tov Kuv Manzayin two years before the Alter Rebbe was arrested and liberated. We discuss Benigea to the Seferatanya and its impact and also including the publishing of the Tanya in pocket format. Firstly, Benigea to the Seferatanya and its publishing, the Rebbe says in a sikha, Yuteski Slev Tov Shin Lamed Beis, that the say that the layout of the Seferatanya is as the Tzemach Tzedek has set it up in a final draft, in a final layout. But mainly there's also changes Benigea to the Kuntras Achrin, which is the fifth section of the Tanya, and also the letters that appear at the end of the Kuntras Achrin. The Rebbe continues in that fabrengen and elaborates Benigea to the last part, which is mentioned in Tanya as the Tanya is completed on the 18th of Kislav. On another occasion, the Rebbe said that publishing Tanyas everywhere makes the Alter Rebbe a Balabos of that place by publishing his Sefer, Sefer HaTanya. In Tov Shin Lamed Ches, 1978, the Rebbe in a sikha, Shabbos Parches Nitzlovim of that year, the Rebbe said that through publishing the Tanya in the shul of the Tzemach Tzedek in Yerushalayim, that basically constitutes the inyun of Shleimos Ha'am, the nation as a whole, the Jewish nation in its entirety. Kulchem gam chete veitzecha ve'sheiv meimecha. That includes all the different levels as

02:22 they are mentioned in the beginning of Parches Nitzlovim, and that is accomplished through the completion of Teda, which consists also of Pnimis HaTeda, Chassidus, and the mele through this is also accomplished Shleimos Ha'aretz, Eretz Yisroel, with all its boundaries in its entirety, and that is accomplished through publishing Pnimis HaTeda, which is the Tanya in the shul of the Tzemach Tzedek. In a yechidus in that time, the Rebbe advised that when they print a Tanya in Yerushalayim, they should omit the word Ho'atikah. He should just say Yerushalayim, and it should be published in time for the Yemai Ledes of the Tzemach Tzedek, which is the 29th of Elul. Now we'll discuss the Tanya as it was published in a pocket format, and this was in Tov Shin Yudaled, winter of 1954. The Rebbe, middle of the sikha, said that since Bochadim customarily walk around with a Tanya in pocket format, so bemele when somebody will ask a question, we can immediately tell the person, let's sit down and learn a chapter Tanya. Tanya is Pnimis HaTeda, which is higher than questions, and bemele when we'll sit down and learn a chapter in Tanya, all the questions will disappear. And the Rebbe continues that the previous Rebbe once said that the Alter Rebbe sang a nigun, and through this nigun that he sang for an audience of people that asked him questions in the Talmud, in Halacha, and after this nigun was sung by the Alter Rebbe, all the questions disappeared from their mind. So the Rebbe

04:30 continues, since the Alter Rebbe has placed himself, enclosed himself in his Svarim, and especially in the Sefer HaTanya, so bemele through Sefer HaTanya we can remove all the questions. And after the Tanya was published in a pocket format, as the will of the previous Rebbe, that everyone should be able to hold a Tanya in a convenient way with him, therefore the Tanya should be kept in the pocket, and when someone will ask a question, he can learn with him Tanya and through this remove the questions that the person has. And bemele this will also benefit that this person will stop asking questions on other people. And the Rebbe explains it logically. When the Yitzharim will know that this person has a Tanya with him, and if he'll ask a question, the one that asked the question will be asked and will need to learn a chapter Tanya, and no one is going to say something against the study of Tanya, as the Rambam writes that even one Pasik and even one word, if a person says that Mesharabeinu said it on his own, not from Hashem, he is considered denying Teda. He can argue and say, I don't have time. He's lazy, behuli doesn't want to learn, but he cannot say a word on kegn the etzem limud of Tanya. So bemele then, no one will ask any questions, and everything will remain with clarity.