INCLINATIONS - How do you talk to your nasty inclinations? A lesson with Rabbi Manis Friedman, author of Doesn't Anyone Blush Anymore? From chapter 16 of the Tanya: ". . . When the individual ponders this subject in the recesses of his heart's and mind's understanding, and his mouth and heart are in accord, in that he fulfills with his mouth the resolve of his mind's and heart's understanding -- namely, to direct his desire towards God's Torah, meditating on it day and night in oral study, and when his hands and other bodily organs, too, carry out the commandments, as was resolved in his mind's and heart's understanding; then this "understanding" is clothed in the act, speech and thought of the Torah and its commandments, providing them with intellectual power, and vitality, and "wings" that enable them to soar on high in the same way as if he practiced them with real fear and love as revealed in the heart, with a desire, fervor and passion that are felt in the heart and soul thirsting for G-d.