The tanya (likutei amarim)
>The tanya is an early work of hasidic philosophy, by rabbi shneur zalman of liadi, the founder of chabad hasidism, first published in 1797.>Its formal title is likkutei amarim ("collection of statements"), but is more commonly known by its opening word, tanya, which means "it was taught in a beraita".>It is composed of five sections that define hasidic mystical psychology and theology as a handbook for daily spiritual life in jewish observance.^English pdf available online
>"In the late 18th century, rabbi shneur zalman, the founder of the chabad hasidic dynasty, wrote in the “tanya” about the jewish soul being superior to the inferior soul of the rest of humanity."https://archive.is/e4k3l The Babylonian talmud: Original Text Edited, Corrected, Forumalted, and Translated into English
>In our translation we adopted these principles:>tenan of the original—We have learned in a mishna; tlawa—We have learned in a boraitha; jtemar—It was taught.>Questions are indicated by the interrogation point, and are immediately followed by the answers, without being so marked.>When in the original there occur two statements separated by the phrase, Lishtia achrena or ivaibayith aetna ox ikha ^'a»«rj (literally, "otherwise interpreted"), we translate only the second.>As the pages of the original are indicated in our new Hebrew edition, it is not deemed necessary to mark them in the English edition, this being only a translation from the latter.Note: I do not know if this version is censored.
^English pdf available online
