Tanya

[Robert_Sock]

. . . They would be correct if there would be but one soul within a person, the same soul that prays being also the one that thinks and ponders on the foreign thoughts.

For in this case, if the G-dly soul were truly immersed in the prayers, there would be no room within it for foreign thoughts.

But in fact there are two souls, each waging war against the other in the person’s mind.

The mind is thus not only the battleground, but also the prize, the object of the battle between the two souls, for: Each of them wishes and desires to rule and pervade the mind exclusively. . .

 

[Cluny]

But in fact there are two souls, each waging war against the other in the person’s mind.

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I don’t know where you got this idea. There is only one soul per person.

Period.

 

[Robert_Sock]

I read the Tanya a lot and what I gave to the readers is a small excerpt on today’s daily reading.

chabad.org/dailystudy/default_cdo/aid/6207/jewish/Daily-Study.htm

Don’t you ever find it difficult to pray due to foreign thoughts? The Tanya attributes this to the animal soul of a person, a part of us that needs to get crushed. Think of it as different parts of the self which war against each other for expression. This Inner struggle is alluded to in the old and new testaments. A devout prayer life requires discipline.

God Bless

 

[geometer]

But in fact there are two souls, each waging war against the other in the person’s mind.

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I don’t know where you got this idea. There is only one soul per person.

Period.

Kabbalists believe that we have five souls…