How the Tanya shapes you

is an incredible paradigm shift from seeing Judaism and by the way you see this immediately in chapter one of Tanya where he tells us that there's this shift from Judaism being a point system focusing on how I'm rewarded to a relationship focusing on who I am at my core now it is a relationship but even the most beautiful relationships can have tension and one of the functions of the Tanya is to help us resolve that tension there's this tension between what I value and the reality of of how I seem to uh what I seem to be drawn toward I value God I value his Torah I value what seems to be a higher purpose and a truth and a mission in life but that doesn't seem to be what I crave