Tanya was the world's first self-help book.
The Alter Rebbe, Baal HaTanya, wrote that each Jew has a piece of the divine essence located at the center of his being and he can discover his answers within himself.
Rabbi Ben Tzion Krasnianski compares this to charity, the highest form of which is to help a person to help himself.
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