m034 029 Tanya Teves 17 ~ 23
Questions for today:
We learned that a Beinoni, us, hasn’t reformatted the inner Soul. This would naturally generate objectionable thoughts stemming from the inner being that is not yet refined. How can we then be responsible for what happens in our mind?
Do you ever feel like you want to strangle somebody?
Okay, it's a figure of speech. However, a lot of us thought “I wish the cop gives a ticket to that person that just cut me off”.
We're studying the Beinoni, the so-called intermediate person. This is someone that is completely in control of their action, their speech - even their thought.
Nevertheless, the conscious stream is going to be a mirror of the inner, spiritual, structure of that character. Therefore, until we completely remodel that, there are going to be negative thoughts that pop up out of place, and there are going to be positive thoughts that are inappropriate.
Today's Tanya tells us that we're not bound by those thoughts that pop up - we are in control of, and responsible for, the next step: we control the active thoughts that we have.
We learn a lesson about this from Joseph and his brothers. What would Joseph's ‘natural’ conscious stream have been? Anger, and hatred to his brothers for selling him down to Egypt.
What was he able to accomplish by ‘choice’? He was able to look at his life story - and even his brothers actions - as part of God's ultimate plan: a historic humanitarian rescue mission, saving millions of people from starvation.
Tanya book 1, ch12 pt 4 (5)
Study today’s Tanya in full:
https://www.chabadmed.com/dailystudy/tanya.asp?tdate=12/27/2021
See today’s video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpyS4C5tlFs&list=PLFZQPK6u-zSBls9Hwx3P5vKI_BRnjBvHe&index=29