M011 008b Tanya Chitas kislev 28 (b) – teves 1
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Questions for today:
How does a Torah thought, or a dollar to a poor person, unite the flame of my soul with the Creator?
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Today’s Tanya Thought:
Let’s work to better understand this idea, that when I dress myself in the thought, speech, and action of the study of Torah, the observance of mitzvos, I could lift my soul up and become one with the Creator.
To do this, I have to wrap my mind around something that's not just above our intellect but out of the realm of physical existence:
When I learn information I get something new. Every time I read a book I become a different person. However, when we discuss the Creator - of whom time and space begin to exist - the Creator who is singular without any type of change or any form of components, that doesn't happen.
The Creator doesn't learn information, the information is the Creator. The Creator doesn't have a desire, the desire is the Creator.
The fact that the Creator could present that to us in the form of thought, speech, and action which we could dress ourselves with, is a gift of ‘clothing’ that the Creator is giving to us, for us to put on, to connect to the Creator.