Introduction: What is the Tanya?

Tanya: The Kabbalah of You - Class 1: What is the Tanya?


This class explores the historical roots of the Tanya. The condition of the Jewish community in the European heartland in the second half of the seventeenth century, the founding of the Chassidic movement by the Baal Shem Tov in the early eighteenth century, and the revolution of Rabbi Schneur Zalman, the Alter Rebbe, to create a model with which the energy and ideas of Chassidus can be internalized.

In conclusion, we study the "author's title page", where we learn the mission of the book: to understand how Judaism is "within reach" and meaningful on a deep level, and that this book takes the "long-but-short" approach.



The Tanya compacts four millennia of Jewish wisdom to answer the great personal and existential questions of life. It has revolutionized the way we think about G-d, the human soul, the world, and our place in it.​

Join Rabbi Levi Dubov for a powerful weekly class to explore the teachings of the Tanya. Taught at the Chabad Jewish Center of Bloomfield Hills.