Opening The Tanya: Discovering The Moral And Mystical Teachings Of A Classic Work Of Kabbalah

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A Guide For Achieving Harmony of Body and Soul For more than two hundred years, the Tanya has been studied by those who know of its insight and wisdom with the devotion and the intensity usually associated with the Bible, the Talmud, the Koran, the Upanishads, and the Bhagavad Gita. Now internationally acclaimed author, scholar, and teacher Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz has written an illuminating and inspiring introduction to the Tanya. Opening the Tanya offers an overview of the Tanya's broad philosophical and spiritual messages as well as point-by-point commentary on the text itself. Written by the great Hasidic master Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Liadi in the late eighteenth century, the "Tanya" is considered to be one of the most extraordinary books of moral teachings ever written. A seminal document in the study of Kabbalah, the "Tanya" explores and solves the dilemmas of the human soul by arriving at the root causes of its struggles. Though it is a classic Jewish spiritual text, the "Tanya" and its present commentary take a broad and comprehensive approach that is not specific to Judaism nor tied to a particular personality type or time or point of view. Opening the "Tanya" is a groundbreaking book that offers a definitive introduction, explanation, and commentary upon the "Tanya," As relevant today as it was when it was first written more than two hundred years ago, the "Tanya" helps us to see the many thousands of complexities, doubts, and drives within us as expressions of a single basic problem, the struggle between our Godly Soul and our Animal Soul.

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