Daily "Chitas" Tanya

Questions for today:

To understand G-d’s connection to our action, let’s see how our Soul animates, and is educated  by, the body

The Torah tells us "mibsari echezeh eloka," which means that we can learn about the Creator from looking at ourselves, at our own bodies.

Therefore, to understand how the Creator permeates and is ‘impacted’ by the physical world, let's take a look at the way the soul permeates and is impacted by the body.

When looking at the Essence, the soul doesn't differentiate between the different parts of the body. The head, feet, eyes, and fingers are all the same to the soul.

However, on the opposite end of the spectrum, the soul provides a specific life force to each part of the body that is unique to it, to allow that body part to fulfill its particular function.

There is a third level that links these two levels together.

This level, is seen with the soul as it is in the brain. Here, the soul is not ‘divided’ into different forms to be specific to each body part, but it has ‘the ability’ to differentiate between each part of the body to provide each part with the unique energy that it needs, and receive ‘feedback’ from those organs’ experiences.

154 Tanya Iyar 24 ~ m183 Iyar 25

Tanya book 1, ch 51, Pt 2   

The Torah tells us "mibsari echezeh eloka," which means that we can learn about the Creator from the human body.

There are varying levels in the relationship between the soul and the body:

A. The soul does not differentiate between specific parts of the body.

B. The soul provides a unique life source to each limb of the body.

C. The soul rests in the brain. It doesn’t differentiate between the different parts of the body, but relates to each part in a specific way, receives feedback from each part, and is affected by each part.

Study today’s Tanya in full:

https://www.chabadmed.com/dailystudy/tanya.asp?tdate=5/26/2022

See today’s video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xOCuPyRaQg&list=PLFZQPK6u-zSBls9Hwx3P5vKIBRnjBvHe&index=151

Questions for today:

We are studying the importance of our ‘physical action’. How do we understand G-d’s presence and relevance within the physical world?

We are coming to the culmination of the first book of the Tanya. We have invested a great amount of time to explaining a verse where it says that it's easy for every person to have a loving relationship with the Creator and to fulfill the physical commandments.

To further understand the importance of performing physical commandments let's take a minute to understand how the Creator permeates the world.

When sunlight permeates the world and shines on a paper, it doesn't matter to the Sun if the paper is blue or white. It shines the same way; the difference seen is due to the distinct chemistry of the paper.

This is similar to one aspect of G-d residing in the world, and to a soul residing in the body.

In one way, every single part of the body is equally alive irrespective of its function. This is because there is a part of the soul that gives life to every part of the body, regardless of its function.

However, another aspect of the soul also gives specific, unique energy to each part of the body. This allows the eye to see, and life for the ear to hear, and this aspect of the Soul receives this ‘feedback’ back.

153 Tanya Iyar 23 ~ m182 Iyar 24

Tanya book 1, ch 51, Pt 1   

To understand the how G-d permeates the world, we gave the following example:

Our soul animates every part of the body equally, regardless of its function, because the soul is above the distinctions within the body.

However, there is also a part of the soul that extends specific life and energy to each part of the body- unique for its individual function.

Study today’s Tanya in full:

https://www.chabadmed.com/dailystudy/tanya.asp?tdate=5/25/2022

See today’s video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=577A6FE8gRg&list=PLFZQPK6u-zSBls9Hwx3P5vKIBRnjBvHe&index=150

Questions for today:

The expression of selfless love is powerful – but easy. How is the world a better place because of my intense love for the Creator?

If I say that I love you, how do I show it? would writing my love in the sky accomplish a connection?

We just discussed a love where the soul acts like a flame that's jumping away from the wick. The soul is saying that it doesn't care about the world; it just wants to be one with the Creator.

What do we do to express this intense love?

The book of yetzira says that if our heart is racing, we should run to “One”. We speak about this “One” in the Shema, when we describe G-d as “echad,” one with the world, as opposed to “yachid,” which has a more distant, aloof meaning.

This is taught by the Mishna that says, “by force we live,” which means that we must go into the world, live, and make a difference.

The Mishna then continues and adds, “by force we die.”

Which one is it?

If we get too comfortable in the world, then we have to remind ourselves that the world doesn't matter. Our only goal is to become one with the Creator. How? By living, by beautifying the physical world and making a difference.

Tanya book 1, ch 50, Pt 2   

We just described a burning love for the Creator, a desire to leave the world. How do we fulfill this love?

By living. By revealing G-d in the physical world and making a difference.

Study today’s Tanya in full:

https://www.chabadmed.com/dailystudy/tanya.asp?tdate=5/24/2022

See today’s video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCKUSlw7XHo&list=PLFZQPK6u-zSBls9Hwx3P5vKIBRnjBvHe&index=149

Questions for today:

If our journey is to discover a love for the Creator, we need to look beyond the goal that can be described as “I love”.

A fish overhears a fisherman say that the king loves fish. It gets excited and starts to envision living in a luxurious fish tank in the palace. Instead, he ends up in the kitchen, with a knife over his head.

The fish yells out, “the king doesn't love fish, he loves himself!

We have been discussing many processes that can help us develop a love for the Creator. None of them are as extreme as the king eating the fish, but they still focus on ourselves.

We described thinking about our connection to the Creator, the way the Creator creates our world, and how much He loves us.

Love stemming from these processes can be compared to water that drips down from the Creator to us to enjoy.

However, there is another form of love where the focus is on G-d, not on us.

Our souls are like fire. Yes, anchored to a body as the fire is to a wick or to a pile of wood. However, trying to burst out to surpass its boundaries. The Soul, like the fire, just wants to leave the wick and the wood in order to connect to and love the Creator.

151 Tanya Iyar 21 ~ m180 Iyar 22

Tanya book 1, ch 50, Pt 1   

All of the systems for love of the Creator that we've discussed have one thing in common  - they are anchored to, and based on, us.

If those types of love can be compared to water, coming down from the Creator and benefiting us, today we speak of an entirely different type of love compared to fire.

This love is not based on how much the Creator gives us, but rather how great the Creator is, alone.

With this, we feel like a flame - wanting to leave the wick behind and become one with the Creator.

Study today’s Tanya in full:

https://www.chabadmed.com/dailystudy/tanya.asp?tdate=5/23/2022

See today’s video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwibWxJRrXo&list=PLFZQPK6u-zSBls9Hwx3P5vKIBRnjBvHe&index=148

Questions for today:

Where can we see, in the world around us, and in our lives, footprints of G-d’s gradual decent into our detailed, physical, lives?

We have come a long way in describing the way that the Creator leaves His palace in the infinite, undefined existence to contract Himself to create a defined, limited world where we can exist.

Today’s Tanya provides more detail and texture to this topic. The countless contractions of G-d can be divided into three categories.

From the spiritual world of “atzilus” G-d contracts Himself three times to create the worlds of “briah, yetzira and asiah,” the worlds that parallel thought, speech, and action. Each time G-d creates one of these three worlds, He contracts Himself further.

This brings us back to the theme of this topic.

When we think of how the Creator ’leaves everything behind’ to create a finite world where He can embrace us, should imbue us with a natural desire to reciprocate. We should want to leave everything else behind in order to remain committed to the Creator and to return the hug.

148 Tanya Iyar 18 ~ m176 Iyar 17

Tanya book 1, ch 49, Pt 1   

We add details to the description of G-d contracting Himself to create the physical world.

We describe the complete contractions occurring in the spiritual world of “atzilus” to create the worlds of “briah, yetzira, and asiah.”

G-d leaving everything behind for us should cause us to want to do the same for Him.

Study today’s Tanya in full:

https://www.chabadmed.com/dailystudy/tanya.asp?tdate=5/18/2022

See today’s video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfahWI2Nr4&list=PLFZQPK6u-zSBls9Hwx3P5vKIBRnjBvHe&index=147

Questions for today:

While our understanding of the Creator as ‘thinking’ the world into existence helps us relate to it, it does present a limiting perspective of the Creator. How do we get around that?

Earlier, we used an analogy of human imagery to explain how the whole universe is entirely contained within the Creator's divine existence.

When I think of a forest, every iota of that picture is contained within the image in my head. Similarly, the whole universe is entirely contained within, and brought into being by, G-d's “imagination” of the world.

However, this analogy is flawed because human knowledge has two weaknesses.

Number one: When a person thinks of something small, he must condense his knowledge to that tiny little thing.

Number two: When a person thinks, his imagined thought does not become the reality. For instance, my imagining a lit up firefly does not result in a real firefly lighting up.

Today’s Tanya tells us that the Creator’s knowledge differs from ours in both of the aforementioned ways.

First of all, when the Creator thinks about the specific details of our world, He does not have to change or condense Himself at all.

Second, the concepts that are within the Creator’s knowledge become the physical existence. Everything present within the physical universe exists because it is within G-d’s thoughts.

147 Tanya Iyar 17 ~ m175 Iyar 16

Tanya book 1, ch 48, Pt 4   

There is a direct relationship between the infinite creative light and physical existence.

Although it remains above our perception, G-d's "knowledge" of every aspect of existence is unlike our knowledge in that:

- It doesn't become smaller when thinking of the finite details of existence.

- It results in the actual substance of reality.

Study today’s Tanya in full:

https://www.chabadmed.com/dailystudy/tanya.asp?tdate=5/17/2022

See today’s video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHlOhNu9c14&list=PLFZQPK6u-zSBls9Hwx3P5vKIBRnjBvHe&index=146

Questions for today:

We’ve learned that our mind can’t grasp the Creator. However, although a limitation on our end makes sense, how does this fit the other aspect of this very equation – doesn’t this imply that the Creator ‘can’t’ fit into our understanding? How can we say that?

When we speak about the loving, creative divine energy that is constantly bringing us into existence, we know that true comprehension of this subject is beyond our reach.

We understand that since we are physical, we can’t grasp divine infinity. Just like a rock is incapable of thinking, we are incapable of understanding G-d’s infinity.

However, our analogy to a rock is not perfect because as much as a rock is limited in its inability to think, intellect is also limited in that it can't work with and fit into a rock.

The Creator’s connection is not at all like that. let’s compare it to a beautiful forest or to another beautiful sight in your head. Every drop of that picture is entirely encompassed inside of your brain.

Similarly, the entire physical existence is entirely encompassed within the infinite Creator. There is no place in the entire universe where G-d is missing.

Therefore, it's not that the Creator and His infinity can't fit into our finite world. Rather, our perspective is limited and finite so that the infinite divinity can be hidden from us.

This allows us to live meaningful lives full of ideas and choices with which we become one with the Creator.

146 Tanya Iyar 16 ~ m172 Iyar 14

Tanya book 1, ch 48, Pt 3   

When we describe an aspect of divine creative energy that is "above" our perception, we don't mean that it is relegated above.

The Creator's infinity is not far away and aloof. Rather, the Creator is everywhere but our reality is limited so that we can have a defined life.

Study today’s Tanya in full:

https://www.chabadmed.com/dailystudy/tanya.asp?tdate=5/15/2022

See today’s video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hs0dgHYil2g&list=PLFZQPK6u-zSBls9Hwx3P5vKIBRnjBvHe&index=145

Questions for today:

When looking for the Creator, what are His hiding places?

When we think about the Creator lovingly condensing Himself to allow for our existence, we can think about it in the following manner.

The clinical definition of trauma is when a person is unable to speak coherently as a result of an overwhelming experience. This is because the occurrence is so tremendous that it can’t be put into words.

The Creator shows tremendous love and humility when He condenses Himself to allow us to live in a conscious state, without being overwhelmed by divinity too grandiose for us to grasp.

Today, we discuss two different ways by which the Creator condenses Himself.

One way is called “mimaala kol haolamim.” This is when the Creator adds G-dliness to the world in such a specific, natural way that we don't even realize that what we are seeing is indeed Divine. We notice it, but we take it for granted, thinking that this is simply our world.

The other way is called “sovev kol olamim.” When G-d condenses Himself in this way, His G-dliness is within and animating everything in our world. However, the world doesn't perceive this form of G-dliness because it's above the world’s consciousness.

145 Tanya Iyar 15 ~ m171 Iyar 13

Tanya book 1, ch 48, Pt 2   

The Creator's loving, humble contraction with which we are created includes two general forms:

1. "Memaleh kol almin" is a contraction which results in a G-dly life so specific and organic to reality that reality doesn't even realize that it's being created.

2. "Sovev kol almin" is G-dliness that is within us, animating us, but is invisible to us because it’s existence is above our consciousness.

Study today’s Tanya in full:

https://www.chabadmed.com/dailystudy/tanya.asp?tdate=5/4/2022

See today’s video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDkJmrhmks&list=PLFZQPK6u-zSBls9Hwx3P5vKIBRnjBvHe&index=144

Questions for today:

If G-d loves us so much, why are we so small? In fact, since our limitation is such a defining part of ourselves, what loving message can we get from it?

A fellow was very upset at the Rabbi who was delivering groceries to the elderly gentleman next door.

As he would deliver the groceries, The rabbi would intentionally drop items making a hole or some other defect. The neighbor was angry when he saw this happening each day.

One day, he decided that he was going to do something about the rabbi mistreating the neighbor’s groceries. As the rabbi arrives with the groceries, he runs over to shout out that the rabbi is vandalizing the groceries.

However, before he does so, he overhears the rabbi say, “wow, I can't believe this $20 salmon was sold for $2 on clearance and it's just smashed a little bit in the corner.”

The neighbor then realized why the rabbi was ‘vandalizing’ the groceries, to allow the elderly man his dignity, while helping him with what he needed.

When we think about the fact that the Creator makes us so small and limited, we might think that the Creator doesn't love us so much. Maybe, the Creator didn't want to work so hard.

However, just like in the story, we have to think a little deeper before we judge. The creator is absolutely infinite and lacks any definition or restrictions. In order to make each and every one of us with our individual specificity, with our own mission in life The Creator had to have overwhelming humility and love for us.

144 Tanya Iyar 14 ~ m170 Iyar 11

Tanya book 1, ch 48, Pt 1   

Continuing the theme of reciprocal, appreciative love, today we look at something very counterintuitive.

Why are we all so small and limited? We may think that the Creator didn’t want to offer us more.

However, when we realize how much love, effort, and attention He invested into creating each of us with our own unique lives and missions, the previous thought vanishes immediately.

Study today’s Tanya in full:

https://www.chabadmed.com/dailystudy/tanya.asp?tdate=5/12/2022

See today’s video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vrvd-yoxVNg&list=PLFZQPK6u-zSBls9Hwx3P5vKIBRnjBvHe&index=143

Questions for today:

G-d’s love for our nation, even while in the lows of Egypt, is legendary. Where to I find that low within myself?

An important component in our focusing on the Creator’s love for us, which then stimulates our love back to the Creator, is that the Creator came down to the immorality of Egypt, where we were assimilated with the lowest of the low to take us by the hand and give us the Torah.

Now, I don't know about you, but I've never been to Egypt. So how does this impact me?

Today's Tanya puts together two mishnayos that tell us that every Jew has an obligation to leave Egypt every day.

Egypt is not just a country, rather it's an obstructive frame of mind that our physical bodies put us into every day, which we need to free ourselves from.

When we say, “Shema Yisrael, G-d is our G-d,” we're not just claiming an inheritance from Abraham, who connected to the Creator with his work. We're also receiving a gift that G-d gave us at Mount Sinai and gives us every day: the ability to connect with the Creator and become one with Him every day.

143 Tanya Iyar 13 ~ m169 Iyar 11

Tanya book 1, ch 47   

Loving the Creator because He lovingly descended to Egypt to free us, applies today.

The captivity of Egypt was not only geographical. Our physical paradigms trap us as well.

G-d gifted us with the ability to connect to and unite with the Creator on a daily basis, which is how He is still saving us from Egypt in the present.

Study today’s Tanya in full:

https://www.chabadmed.com/dailystudy/tanya.asp?tdate=5/11/2022

See today’s video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMMNS6ThlJc&list=PLFZQPK6u-zSBls9Hwx3P5vKIBRnjBvHe&index=142

Questions for today:

If this love from the Creator is so impactful, how does that impact us – all of us?

We had a medical student join us for the second Seder. He had worked in the hospital the whole day and was very hungry.

We asked him, “why didn’t you eat in the hospital? It has a cafeteria that is kosher for Passover.”

He responded that he went to the cafeteria to eat, but there were some rolls out which ‘looked’ like bread, so he didn't feel comfortable eating.

This student isn't particularly observant, and this cafeteria has a top-of-the-line kosher certification. Yet, what we saw here is something that is commonly seen among the Jewish people.

This student had a very strong sensitivity and appreciation for the holiness of the commandments, even if it wasn’t visible from his external appearance.

The Jewish people have this sensitivity and appreciation because when G-d gave us the Torah, He didn’t merely give us a book of instructions. He gave us the Torah as an embrace and a kiss, giving us a way to directly connect with Him.

Even when we don’t feel this love for the Creator like a burning fire, the love is there, hiding underneath the surface.  

142 Tanya Iyar 12 ~ m168 Iyar 9

Tanya book 1, ch 46, Pt 4   

The kiss and embrace from the Creator that we feel when we study Torah and fulfill commandments can be felt by all, regardless of their external appearance.

Study today’s Tanya in full:

https://www.chabadmed.com/dailystudy/tanya.asp?tdate=5/10/2022

See today’s video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khe2vDnFooE&list=PLFZQPK6u-zSBls9Hwx3P5vKIBRnjBvHe&index=141

Questions for today:

The connection that we’ve been describing, a reciprocal love to the Creator, is indeed remarkable. Where and in what can we see it in our daily lives?

We have been talking about the love that we feel for the Creator when we realize the creator's affection for us. Let's continue discussing this topic.

When we fulfill one of the Creator’s commandments, we use the same terminology that a bride and groom use under the wedding canopy. Additionally, throughout the book of the Song of Songs, King Solomon uses the bride and groom analogy to represent our relationship with the Creator.

When a husband and wife connect with each other over a cup of coffee, they are not connecting through their hands or their cups. Their entire being are connecting, they are only utilizing that physical coffee.

Furthermore, the bond between a husband and wife is not merely an emotional or intellectual connection. Their bonding is a connection of their souls.

A blind couple can give birth to a seeing child because their bond is coming from the essence of their souls.

As in that analogy, when we observe one of G-d’s commandments, the commandment is the medium that allows our Essence to connect to the Creator’s Essence.

141 Tanya Iyar 11 ~ m167 Iyar 8

Tanya book 1, ch 46, Pt 3   

We compare the Creator's warm affection for us to the affection and bond between a husband and wife.

When a couple connects with each other, they connect with their whole being and essence.

Study today’s Tanya in full:

https://www.chabadmed.com/dailystudy/tanya.asp?tdate=5/9/2022

See today’s video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y47jCCCRd8I&list=PLFZQPK6u-zSBls9Hwx3P5vKIBRnjBvHe&index=140

 M164 Tanya Iyar 5

https://youtu.be/Gotz5tnvfqM 

Questions for today:

The ‘prooftext’ of the Tanya is a verse that insists that it is ‘easy’ to love the Creator. Wouldn’t that be dependent on the circumstance; my propensity to love, my qualities, my choices?

A friend comes over to you and asks, “is there anything I can do to help you?”

The natural response is a feeling of care and appreciation towards the person who showed that they care about you.

Now, imagine an important person, such as the program director or the dean of the university, comes over with that same concern. Not trying to sell anything to you, just genuinely caring and wanting to make sure you're okay.

You will automatically feel appreciation and care for that person, and you will feel even more elated because it was an important person who cared about you.

In our conversation, we're not talking about the program director or the dean of the University. We are talking about the Creator of heaven and earth who ‘comes down’ and gets involved in the nitty gritty details of our lives.

G-d personally gives us opportunities to connect to Him by doing charitable acts Connecting our ‘arms’ with a warm embrace.. and studying the Torah, our lips mouthing G-d’s words, an intimate kiss.

This method of achieving love is unique. Often, our love for the Creator is dependent upon some quality or action of ours. However, the type of love that we are currently discussing is different.

Here, our love for G-d is a natural response to the Creator of the world being interested in the trivial details of our lives. Therefore, the less deserving we are, the more our hearts will swell with appreciation and love for the Creator for getting involved in the details of our lives.

139 Tanya Iyar 09 ~ m163 Iyar 4

Tanya book 1, ch 46, Pt 1  

Today, we describe reciprocal love. As we are shown care, our appreciation for the person showering us with care grows.

With this love, the less deserving we are, the greater it is.

Study today’s Tanya in full:

https://www.chabadmed.com/dailystudy/tanya.asp?tdate=5/5/2022

See today’s video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYpIRDzhjms&list=PLFZQPK6u-zSBls9Hwx3P5vKIBRnjBvHe&index=138

Questions for today:

Kindness allows us to connect to things that don’t deserve, through a lack of concern for your actions. Strictness is severe, because I take your actions seriously. Is there a way to love you unconditionally, while being concerned for you in detail?

We have been discussing connecting to the Creator with the emotions of love and fear, or ‘bonding’ and ‘respect’. However, there is also a third way to connect.

We have three Forefathers. Abraham parallels love and Isaac parallels fear and respect. Then there's Jacob who represents mercy.

Mercy is not a blend, half love and half fear. Mercy is something that's higher than both of them that allows the two to coexist.

Let’s discuss the mercy that we should have for our G-dly soul.

In its original form, the soul is one with the Creator, and then it is forced to leave to come exist in this small, physical world. This thought elicits mercy. The Soul then must animate all of our foolishness and every sin that we do. This also elicits mercy.

We say, “Viyashav el Hashem,” we should return to G-d, “virachamehu.” We usually translate this as “G-d will have mercy on us.”

However, another way to translate “virachamehu” is that we should have mercy on our G-dly soul that is stuck here in this world. This mercy will encourage us to bond to the Creator.

137 Tanya Iyar 07 ~ m162 Iyar 3

Tanya book 1, ch 45, Pt 1

We've discussed connecting to the Creator with Love and fear/respect. Today we describe a third emotion: mercy.

When we realize that the soul leaves it's supernal source, descends into this world, and animates our foolishness and sins, a deep mercy and desire to connect to the Creator emerges.

Study today’s Tanya in full:

https://www.chabadmed.com/dailystudy/tanya.asp?tdate=5/4/2022

See today’s video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5R9GqDr0OQ&list=PLFZQPK6u-zSBls9Hwx3P5vKIBRnjBvHe&index=136

Questions for today:

We know of the impact of the emotions of Love and Fear, what is the impact of Mercy?

We have been talking about connecting to the Creator with an emotion that we learn from our third patriarch, Jacob, the emotion of mercy.

We trigger this emotion when we think about how the soul has to leave its home, where it's one with the Creator, and come live in this physical world and animate our foolish sins.

What does this mercy accomplish?

There is a story in the Torah that describes when Jacob meets his fiancée, Rachel. The Torah tells us that he gives her a kiss and cries.

Obviously, every story in the Torah happened exactly the way it is described, but the Torah is not a romance novel. There must be a message for us and a reason why this story is recounted.

The message to us from this interaction is that Jacob cried to elicit Divine mercy for Rachel, the mother of all the Jewish people.

Their embrace represented hands that emulate G-d's handiwork, that of kindness, mitzvos, and charity. Their kiss represented the action of mouthing and speaking words of Torah.

Jacob’s mercy lifts us up from being trapped in the physical world and completely reunites us with the spiritual, with our G-dly soul.

138 Tanya Iyar 08 ~ m162b Iyar 3b

Tanya book 1, ch 45, Pt 2  

We are working to connect to the Creator through mercy. What does mercy accomplish?

We see in the Torah that Jacob kissed Rachel and cried. The cry represents eliciting Divine mercy.

Through this mercy, we are uplifted from our physical entrapment, and reunited with the Creator.

Study today’s Tanya in full:

https://www.chabadmed.com/dailystudy/tanya.asp?tdate=5/4/2022

See today’s video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qi2Z7V0pG9c&list=PLFZQPK6u-zSBls9Hwx3P5vKIBRnjBvHe&index=137

Questions for today:

The Tanya has helped us feel our love for the Creator at very high levels of our living experience. However, there are parts of our lives that go beyond that. Is there a way to feel a love for the Creator above everything we’ve described?

The Tanya has been transforming the concept of loving the Creator from a checkbox item that we mark as done to something that expands and incorporates the entire human experience.

We explained that we see the Creator as our life and therefore we can love the creator with our entire being. We also said that we could be humbled to the Creator, like a child is humbled to the parent.

Now we go above and beyond to the next level of love.

Have you ever seen fuel burst into flames? You're watching something that's not comfortable in its box, and it has to expand beyond its limits.

If we think of the Creator not only being our life, or even something that we could be humbled to, but something above and beyond anything we relate to, it's possible for us to have a love for the Creator like a flaming fire.

Our love can be bursting out and saying that I really want to reach out, above and beyond.

136 Tanya Iyar 06 ~ m161 Iyar 2

Tanya book 1, ch 44, Pt 5

Today we describe a love that we can achieve when we contemplate that the Creator is truly beyond our comprehension and can’t be compared to anything in our realm.

Through this, our love can be like a burning flame, that yearns to reach beyond its limits.

Study today’s Tanya in full:

https://www.chabadmed.com/dailystudy/tanya.asp?tdate=5/3/2022

See today’s video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLldpxv2plQ&list=PLFZQPK6u-zSBls9Hwx3P5vKIBRnjBvHe&index=135