m009, 007 Kislev 25/Kislev 27
Questions for today:
Why does it seem that everyone translates and judges the news based on their predetermined perspective?
Why do I find myself doing this?
Today we discuss the underlying fabric of how our soul is constructed. Fascinatingly, we find that it comes into being similarly to how the world is made.
Considering this, in the same way how in construction, the material will determine the product, in that same way, our view of the world will be in line with the source of that view - elements deeper within our souls origin.
Study today’s Tanya in full: https://www.chabadmed.com/dailystudy/tanya.asp?tdate=12/1/2021
Today we start to learn about the science of the soul.
Yesterday we learned that our soul, our life, is an actual part of G-d.
G-d doesn't have any right or left, or up or down - so how do we start interacting with the world?
In the story of creation, it doesn't say that G-d created the world ‘in six days’ it says “six days G-d created the world”. Meaning to go from the oneness of G-d to make a physical reality, G-d had to divide the world into components.
Six is only part of the number. We know there are Ten Commandments, and there are ten utterances that G-d used to create the world.
The way that it's divided is, if you take for example the soul, developing an interactive reality to become a human being; there are three intellectual components [by intellect we don't mean thoughts, those are ‘things that we think’, but rather the components of the soul that have the tools to think, and have flexible interaction with the world].
Then seven, six plus one, components that concretize those thoughts into real, interactive, experiences with the world, those are the seven emotions.
See today’s video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-A3dN0Bt8U&list=PLFZQPK6u-zSBls9Hwx3P5vKI_BRnjBvHe&index=7
Thoughts for today:
Although the Tanya enumerates ten emotional elements, it only specifies three, and then writes, “etc.”.
This could likely be because as we will learn farther there really are only three core, primary, emotional elements. The rest are branches of them.
The Tanya mentions both fear and dread twice, once when they’re being described, and again when it explains how they are formed.
What’s interesting is that they reverse in order. The first time it says dread and then fear. And the second time it says fear and then dread?.
What’s the difference between these two things (at least in their Hebrew definitions)?
Fear is an intellectual element where we recognize that something is scary. Dread it is when our heart actually trembles.
The first time when it describes the two, it says the more developed one first. The second time when it’s describing the process, it starts with fear because that’s how it begins. First, a person realizes that something is concerning and frightening, then it descends to impact the persons heart and emotion.