A lesson in Tanya

 

פרשת בהעלתך                           The only time the חתם סופר ever quotes from the ספר ליקוטי אמרים*, also known as the תניא, is in this week's Parsha (בהעלתך). The תניא writes, when a person sins, he also drags along and sins with his נשמה the חלק אלוה that is within him.  The חתם סופר explains with this the פסוק of ויבכו גם בני ישראל Not only did the אספסוף, the evil part within him, sin, but also the נשמת ישראל the חלק אלוה sinned. (בני ישראל) * The Chasam Sofer (Shu"t O. Chaim 16) argues on the ספר ליקוטי אמרים The Ch.S. claims that this Sefer is not available in the entire city, and even if it were available, he wouldn't have time for it. The Sefer he is referring to is not the תניא but the ליקוטי אמרים from the Mezritcher Magid. Harav Chaim Shmuel Birnbaum zt"l  (מעשה חשב על הרמב"ם) writes that his Shver R. Akiva Eiger zt"l owned a ספר תניא, but he wasn't sure if he owned a  שו"ע הרב

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