Quotes from the Tanya 3
By zevi770 · February 18, 2012
CHAPER 2
“The second soul in a Jew is literally part of God above.”
“In every generation there are the Rebbes of the generation whose souls are like a head relative to a ankle” (i.e. far more developed, though the essence of all souls – the second soul – is God Himself.)
“An example would be, that just as the original essence of the drop of semen, being in the father’s mind, yet the ankle, though in essence the father’s mind, nonetheless, manifestly, is only the son’s ankle, relative to the son’s mind, which would be comparably closer to the father’s mind.”
“Just as the ankle receives its sustenance (directions) from the brain (which manages the whole body) hence even the ‘ankle souls’ receive their sustenance from the source ‘mind,’ namely through the energy of God transmitted via the Rebbe of the generation.”
“To connect to the Rebbe is to literally connect to God, the sages teach us.”