It Is Taught Tanya Podcast

Send us Fan Mail In today's episode we discuss how Bina gives birth to emotions (middos) and how this relates to Teshuva I'laya'a in terms of the higher Hei and the Vav. I.e how and why studying Torah is the path to Teshuva I'laya. Iggeres HaTeshuva, Chapter 9. Music by Shoshannah.     Follow us on:  Youtube , Facebook , Twitter , Instagram To sponsor an episode or for any othe...

Send us Fan Mail In today's episode we discuss how Teshuva I'laya comes about not directly through Man's effort, but rather through G-d effecting it from Above to Below. However Man still needs to work to rise from level to level. Iggeres HaTeshuva, Beginning of Chapter 10. Music by Shoshannah.     Follow us on:  Youtube , Facebook , Twitter , Instagram To sponsor an episode or for...

Send us Fan Mail In today's episode we discuss what is involved in the higher level of Tehuva (Teshuva Ila'ah). Iggeres HaTeshuva, End of Chapter 8. Music by Shoshannah.     Follow us on:  Youtube , Facebook , Twitter , Instagram To sponsor an episode or for any other inquiries, email: itistaught@gmail.com   Support the show

Send us Fan Mail In today's episode we discuss how one can arouse the 13 Attributes of Mercy to reset the letters of one's soul so that one's sins no longer detach a person from G-d. Iggeres HaTeshuva, Beginning of Chapter 8. Music by Shoshannah.     Follow us on:  Youtube , Facebook , Twitter , Instagram To sponsor an episode or for any other inquiries, email: itistaught@gmail.com...

Send us Fan Mail In today's episode we discuss how even minor transgressions can have a cumulative effect of being on par with the most severe transgressions. Iggeres HaTeshuva, end of Chapter 7. Music by Shoshannah.     Follow us on:  Youtube , Facebook , Twitter , Instagram To sponsor an episode or for any other inquiries, email: itistaught@gmail.com   Support the show

Send us Fan Mail In today's episode we discuss how the path to a broken heart, which is necessary for doing Teshuva, is taking an honest accounting of one's actions and realizing their ramifications. Iggeres HaTeshuva, Middle of chapter 7. Music by Shoshannah.     Follow us on:  Youtube , Facebook , Twitter , Instagram To sponsor an episode or for any other inquiries, email: itistaught@g...

Send us Fan Mail In today's episode we discuss the two general aspects involved in lower Teshuva, namely 1)Compassion and 2)Subjugation. Iggeres HaTeshuva, Beginning of Chapter 7. Music by Shoshannah.     Follow us on:  Youtube , Facebook , Twitter , Instagram To sponsor an episode or for any other inquiries, email: itistaught@gmail.com   Support the show

Send us Fan Mail In today's episode we discuss how while in the past, when we were on a higher level, we received our physical vitality in a more direct manner exclusively from our G-dly souls, nowadays, with the exile of the Schina (due to our actions), the vitality of transgressors flows via the zodiac, which is sourced in Klipas Noga. Iggeres HaTeshuva, beginning of chapter 6. Music by Sho...

Send us Fan Mail In today's episode we discuss how we have a choice as to which channel we receive our vitality from and how Teshuva can restore a more direct flow from our source. Iggeres HaTeshuva, end of chapter 6. Music by Shoshannah.     Follow us on:  Youtube , Facebook , Twitter , Instagram To sponsor an episode or for any other inquiries, email: itistaught@gmail.com   Support the show

Send us Fan Mail In today's episode we discuss how the 613 Mitzvos can be thought of a rope with 613 strands, which ultimately is G-d's Breath which is the vitality of the G-dly Soul. Iggeres HaTeshuva, Chapter 5. Music by Shoshannah.     Follow us on:  Youtube , Facebook , Twitter , Instagram To sponsor an episode or for any other inquiries, email: itistaught@gmail.com   Support the sho...

Send us Fan Mail In today's episode we discuss the deeper meaning behind man being created in the image of G-d by virtue of the soul mirroring the Tetragrammaton.  Iggeres HaTeshuva end of chapter 4. Music by Shoshannah.     Follow us on:  Youtube , Facebook , Twitter , Instagram To sponsor an episode or for any other inquiries, email: itistaught@gmail.com   Support the show

Send us Fan Mail Today's episode has been generously sponsored by Ruta Cohen (Rus bas Natalya Esther) in honor of her birthday. In today's episode we discuss how the Tetragrammaton contains all of the 10 sephiros within it. Iggeres HaTeshuva, Middle of Chapter 4. Music by Shoshannah.     Follow us on:  Youtube , Facebook , Twitter , Instagram To sponsor an episode or for any other inquir...

Send us Fan Mail In today's episode we discuss the difference between blowing (i.e. exhaling strongly) vs. speaking and how this relates to G-d's creation of Man. Iggeres HaTeshuva middle of chapter 4. Music by Shoshannah.     Follow us on:  Youtube , Facebook , Twitter , Instagram To sponsor an episode or for any other inquiries, email: itistaught@gmail.com   Support the show

Send us Fan Mail In today's episode we begin a discussion of coming to a more in depth understanding of what Teshuva is and introduce some related questions in this regard. Iggeres HaTeshuva, Beginning of chapter 4. Music by Shoshannah.     Follow us on:  Youtube , Facebook , Twitter , Instagram To sponsor an episode or for any other inquiries, email: itistaught@gmail.com   Support the show

Send us Fan Mail In today's episode we discuss how charity can serve as a substitute for fasting nowadays due to our generation not being as physically robust as generations in the past. Iggeres HaTeshuva, middle of Chapter 3. Music by Shoshannah.     Follow us on:  Youtube , Facebook , Twitter , Instagram To sponsor an episode or for any other inquiries, email: itistaught@gmail.com   Support...

Send us Fan Mail In today's episode we discuss how one should give extra charity as a way of redeeming the outstanding proscribed fasts (according to the more stringent opinions). Iggeres HaTeshuva, end of Chapter 3. Music by Shoshannah.     Follow us on:  Youtube , Facebook , Twitter , Instagram To sponsor an episode or for any other inquiries, email: itistaught@gmail.com   Support the show

Send us Fan Mail In today's episode we discuss the deeper meaning behind why the sages settled upon the measure of having a sinner fast 3x the prescribed number of fasts for whatever sin they committed. Iggeres HaTeshuva, Beginning of Chapter 3. Music by Shoshannah.     Follow us on:  Youtube , Facebook , Twitter , Instagram To sponsor an episode or for any other inquiries, email: itistaught@...

Send us Fan Mail In today's episode we discuss what the role of fasting and inflicting suffering upon oneself might have if these are not part of the mitzvah of Teshuva. Iggeres HaTeshuva Chapter 2. Music by Shoshannah.     Follow us on:  Youtube , Facebook , Twitter , Instagram To sponsor an episode or for any other inquiries, email: itistaught@gmail.com   Support the show

Send us Fan Mail In today's episode we discuss what is involved in the mitzvah of Teshuva and how fasting is not part of this, despite what many think. Iggeres HaTeshuva, end of Chapter 1. Music by Shoshannah.     Follow us on:  Youtube , Facebook , Twitter , Instagram To sponsor an episode or for any other inquiries, email: itistaught@gmail.com   Support the show

Send us Fan Mail In today's episode we discuss a teaching in masechet Yoma about the three types of atonement necessary in the cases of three different types of transgressions. Iggeres HaTeshuva, Beginning of Chapter 1. Music by Shoshannah.     Follow us on:  Youtube , Facebook , Twitter , Instagram To sponsor an episode or for any other inquiries, email: itistaught@gmail.com   Support the sh...

Send us Fan Mail In today's episode we discuss how moonlight can be used as a good analogy to help us understand how lower creations receive their vitality from the more loftier creations which radiate the 10 utterances of creation in a more direct way. Sha'ar HaYichud V'Haemunah, end of chapter 12. Music by Shoshannah.     Follow us on:  Youtube , Facebook , Twitter , Instagram To...

Send us Fan Mail In today's episode we discuss why it is that we call the building blocks through which G-d creates the world "letters" even though G-d's Speech is far above and the source of our wisdom and intellects. Sha'ar HaYichud V'Haemunah end of Chapter 11. Music by Shoshannah.     Follow us on:  Youtube , Facebook , Twitter , Instagram To sponsor an episode or...

Send us Fan Mail In today's episode we discuss how every individual creation receives its vitality from a particular combination, transposition or substitution  of the 22 letters contained within the 10 utterances of creation. Sha'ar HaYichud V'Haemunah, beginning of chapter 12. Music by Shoshannah.     Follow us on:  Youtube , Facebook , Twitter , Instagram To sponsor an episode or...

Send us Fan Mail In today's episode we discuss the meaning and purpose of "letters of thought" and "letters of speech". Sha'ar HaYichud V'Haemunah, Beginning of Chapter 11. Music by Shoshannah.     Follow us on:  Youtube , Facebook , Twitter , Instagram To sponsor an episode or for any other inquiries, email: itistaught@gmail.com   Support the show

Send us Fan Mail In today's Tanya we discuss how the seven days of the week come into being from G-d's Attributes. Sha'ar HaYichud V'Haemunah, end of Chapter 10 Music by Shoshannah.     Follow us on:  Youtube , Facebook , Twitter , Instagram To sponsor an episode or for any other inquiries, email: itistaught@gmail.com   Support the show