Tanya classes – Rabbi Krasnianski: The Book of the Intermediates (Likutei Amarim) ch. 11-20 Tanya classes – Rabbi Krasnianski: The Book of the Intermediates (Likutei Amarim) ch. 11-20

as, indeed, our Sages have said,10 “Would that a man pray the whole day long!”

1“One is the opposite of the other”: the “rasha who knows good” is the antithesis of the “tzaddik who knows evil.”

So, too, in matters “between man and his fellow-man.” The Beinoni will not grant expression in thought, speech or action to any evil feelings toward his fellow.

Accordingly, we may understand the comment of our Sages1 that “Beinonim are judged by both [their good and evil inclinations]” — both “judge” him and dictate his conduct. As Scriptural support for this contention, the Talmud cites:

Even if one’s entire aspiration is in G‑d’s Torah, which he studies day and night for its own sake,

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