Opening the "Tanya": Discovering the Moral and Mystical Teachings of a Classic Work of Kabbalah

by Adin Steinsaltz

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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.
  • ISBN10 078796798X
  • ISBN13 9780787967987
  • Publish Date 25 August 2003
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 30 March 2012
  • Publish Country US
  • Publisher John Wiley & Sons Inc
  • Imprint Jossey-Bass Inc.,U.S.
  • Edition Revised ed.
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 384
  • Language English