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The signature metaphor in Tanya to describe all human activity, popping up in some form or another on almost every page, is clothing. Life, according to Tanya, is less about who you are and more about what you wear.

A staunch defender of his father and a mystic and scholar in his own right, Avraham Maimonides fused rationalism with mysticism.