Text 11
However, the impression [of prayer] on the intellect and the hidden [i.e. innate] fear and love of G-d in the right part [of the heart], enable one to prevail and triumph over this evil of passionate craving, depriving it from gaining supremacy and dominion over the "city," [i.e. the body] and from carrying out this desire from the potential into the actual by clothing itself in the bodily organs.
Tanya, Ch. 12
Because the beinoni can pray every day and reawaken his love to G-d, which induces sleep in the evil inclination, it can truly be said that to an extent, the beinoni does indeed have a degree of authority concerning his evil inclination that is in his heart.
Accordingly, this provides insight into a previous statement of the Tanya concerning the character of the beinoni:
Text 12
He has never committed, nor ever will commit, any transgression; neither can the name "wicked" be applied to him even temporarily, or even for a moment, throughout his life.
Tanya, Ch. 12
At first glance, this statement does not seem to be consistent with the character of the beinoni, who is always subject to sin, and can at any point, succumb to his evil inclination. Yet, equipped with the above understanding, the statement of Tanya can be appreciated.
Not only is the beinoni a person who has not ever sinned, he is a person who will never sin. Because he is able to effectively “put his evil inclination to sleep,” in that state that he presently is holding, he can be assured that he will never commit any transgression and can be certain that in the future he will be able to have jurisdiction over his evil inclination.
This is the meaning of the expression to “transfer ownership over a property itself with regard to the produce it yields,” in regards to a person’s service of G-d. Even a person who cannot transform his essential characteristics, can affect himself concerning the manifestation of those attributes. Although he cannot transform his essential character to be G-dly, he can affect his character traits concerning his “produce,” and bring those under G-dly jurisdiction.
