Tanya classes – Rabbi Krasnianski: The Book of the Intermediates (Likutei Amarim) ch. 0 - 10 Tanya classes – Rabbi Krasnianski: The Book of the Intermediates (Likutei Amarim) ch. 0 - 10

Now, each of these three distinctions and grades — Nefesh, Ruach and Neshamah — consists of ten faculties1

Next his contemplation will give birth to the attribute of Chesed, expressed as a love of G‑d, so that his heart will glow with an intense love of G‑d like fiery flames, with a passion, desire and longing, and a yearning soul

In addition [to its ten faculties — discussed in ch. 3], every divine soul (nefesh elokit) possesses three garments.

Now these three “garments” deriving from the Torah and its commandments, though they are called [merely] “garments” of the Nefesh, Ruach and Neshamah,

That is why this world with all it contains is called the world of kelipot and sitra achra — despite the fact that this world, too, receives its vitality from G‑d’s holiness.

[Only] concerning repentance out of such great love has it been said9 that [the penitent’s] premeditated sins become, for him, like virtues, since through them (through the sins which previously had distanced him from G‑d) he attained when he repented to this great love.