Tanya - regular year - Rabbi Chaim Wolosow
Oct 13, 2026 · 13 min · 7 segments
This shiur explains the Alter Rebbe's teaching that anger over worldly matters is akin to idol worship, while one who is disturbed during prayer should see it as a call to pray with deeper…
Chaim WolosowHost
He asked in the beginning of the thing-- of the beginning of the Perek, he says, "Why do you get angry?" In the beginning of Perek Chof Hey.
So he said that one who gets angry is like worshiping Avodah Zarah, right? And he says because he doesn't have Emunah, right? So you accept it, right? You say you accept everything, the Aibishter.
So one can think, okay, so if a goy is interrupting the davening, and you believe that everything that happens is the Aibishter, so the Aibishter wants him to interrupt your davening.
So why should you get in kayitz? Why should you stop him? Why should you, uh, push him away? You should, okay, accept it.
Just like the person who curses you, Chazal said like, "Dovid Hamelech," we said.
But the Alter Rebbe says, when you have to accept it, that's just in matters of the world.
When it comes to Kedushah, you have to fight back because that's actually a mission, uh, it's a message from the Aibishter not to go follow it.
When it comes in worldly matters and other things, then the Aibishter is not trying to get you strong enough.
But when a person is interfering or doing something which you have a opportunity to, to set him straight, then fakert, then you're supposed to get angry.
He asked in the beginning of the thing-- of the beginning of the Perek, he says, "Why do you get angry?" In the beginning of Perek Chof Hey.
So he said that one who gets angry is like worshiping Avodah Zarah, right? And he says because he doesn't have Emunah, right? So you accept it, right? You say you accept everything, the Aibishter.
So one can think, okay, so if a goy is interrupting the davening, and you believe that everything that happens is the Aibishter, so the Aibishter wants him to interrupt your davening.
So why should you get in kayitz? Why should you stop him? Why should you, uh, push him away? You should, okay, accept it.
Just like the person who curses you, Chazal said like, "Dovid Hamelech," we said.
But the Alter Rebbe says, when you have to accept it, that's just in matters of the world.
When it comes to Kedushah, you have to fight back because that's actually a mission, uh, it's a message from the Aibishter not to go follow it.
When it comes in worldly matters and other things, then the Aibishter is not trying to get you strong enough.
But when a person is interfering or doing something which you have a opportunity to, to set him straight, then fakert, then you're supposed to get angry.
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