Yesterday we left with a powerful question.
Obviously the Torah was given by G-d for every single person, but if you look in the Mishnah you see one rabbi will say something is kosher and another rabbi says it's not kosher - opposite rulings! Why? because our path, our soul, our character, is different, and the way we connect to G-d is different.
If that’s so, how do you write a book where somebody is going to look into it and say “I have to change, I have to become a better person” and then somebody else very different from them is going to have the same exact reaction from the same words?
And how can the author be sure that the reader will see the words and understand the same message that was intended?
The answer today cuts to the core of what the Tanya is.
The author, the first Rebbe of Chabad, Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liadi writes: “beyodai umakirai koamina”, “this is to my close confidants”.
This is not a book throwing out inspirational messages. This is a book that is individually designed for the person reading it.
Now, if you want a hold off skeptically on that topic, that’s ok. Read it like any other book. These words will come to life personally when you find the same thing that Chassidim found over the past 200 years: I don't know about anybody else, but this book talks directly to me.
Study today’s Tanya in full:
https://www.chabadmed.com/dailystudy/tanya.asp?tdate=11/26/2021
Today’s video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7Mo2vHotM4&list=PLFZQPK6u-zSBls9Hwx3P5vKI_BRnjBvHe&index=3