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Likutei Amarim Tanya
by Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liadi
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Kehot Pubns Society (1996-06)
ISBN: 0826604005
EAN: 9780826604002
Dewy Decimal #: 296
Hardcover
Edition: Bilingual
SKU: AR0805326s
Condition: Used: Like New
Comments: Beautiful book - Bi-lingual edition. Red covers with gold embossed letters and attached ribbon bookmarks. Text clean with NO marks.
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Customer Reviews
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Just a good lie
Rating  (1)
Date: 2005-07-02
5 out of 16 customers found this reveiw helpful
If you pull up my reviews on Amazon, you'll see that higher ups in the Chabad Lubavitch movement confided in me that their doctrines don't detail the way the world really works as Rabbi Shea Hecht, Executive Director of Hadar Hatorah, told me years ago and "it's just a good lie" as Chaim Meir Lieberman told me some 18 years ago. Hecht was my mashpiah when I was in Chabad and Lieberman was my ex-wife's spiritual overseer. Lieberman is a gavir (pillar of the community) too.
The Tanya states that the body and souls of the non-Jewish nations of the world come from the 3 impure klippot that have no holiness (and no holy radiation) in them, while the body and souls of the jews come from the klippat nogah which is an intermediate type whose radiation can be converted to holiness.
The Tanya also states (quoting the Talmud) that the "kindess of the nations is but sin". I have to take all of this to task. I corresponded with the Kabbalah Center(they also have a spurious reputation) over the former paragraph and they said that it's not that the goyim are completely evil it's just that the Jews and non-Jews don't mix well. They also said the other 3 klippot have holy radiation too.
As far as the Talmudic quote, the nations of the world ratified a modern Jewish state, which is supported by the US to the tune of some 3 - 6 Billion dollars a year in aid. If you don't like the treatment you get, just think, how would the Jewish establishment, especially the Chabad establishment, treat the non-Jews if they got the chance.
One of my basic beefs is that the religious establishments put people up to getting killed in the name of G-d, while teaching impure doctrines which are known to be incorrect by the leaders of the movements but not by the gullible followers. My Uncle Irving Green (see my review of his book "Judaism on the Web") told me "they take you when you're young and impressionable and they teach you certain things.."
My mother had a booklet on Chanukah published by Kehot, which is Chabad's publishing arm. In it, the book geared towards children, said "... and little children even like yourself were willing to die to defend this pure,holy religion..." Nevertheless that it isn't pure and holy. And that's my take on the Jewish religion in general and not just Chabad's version.
All these reputed miracles etc. happened 2K years ago 6K miles away and of course we who live in a modern day of scientific "miracles" just aren't holy enough to warrant seeing any thing like what supposedly happened then and there. What nonsense.
The Tanya is only one book on Chasidus. There are many books like B'nei Yissacher(Diniver), Likutei Moharan(Breslov), Kedushat Levi(Levi Yitzchak Berditchiver), etc.. Chabad is trying to make out like they have the market cornered on Chasidic education, but my sources tell me that "learning with Lubavitch isn't really learning!"
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for lifelong study
Rating  (5)
Date: 2001-03-05
4 out of 6 customers found this reveiw helpful
this is not just another beautifully written book about Chassidus. This book is studied as a textbook as deeply as Gemara is by orthodox rabbis before getting ordained as a rabbi. It is THE textbook to Chassidus and, incidently, a great primer to the world of Kaballa.
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for lifelong study
Rating (5)
Date: 2001-03-05
this is not just another beautifully written book about Chassidus. This book is studied as a textbook as deeply as Gemara is by orthodox rabbis before getting ordained as a rabbi. It is THE textbook to Chassidus and, incidently, a great primer to the world of Kaballa.
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Author: Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liadi
Rating (5)
Date: 1998-02-10
8 out of 15 customers found this reveiw helpful
The author of the Tanya is Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liadi. (1745-1812) Written for those "who are in pursuit of righteousness and seek the L-rd" this book explains how to love and fear G-d in a "lengthy and brief" way.
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