m014b 013 Teves 1 ~ 5 (pt2)
Because of the difference in the calendar between a regular and a leap year, we have two thoughts for today’s Tanya
Questions for today:
How does a question in ‘G-d’s Torah become ‘my question’? How does a Divine spark become ‘my idea’?
Study today’s Tanya in full:
https://www.chabadmed.com/dailystudy/tanya.asp?tdate=12/8/2021
See today’s video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gC97euEUvhQ&list=PLFZQPK6u-zSBls9Hwx3P5vKI_BRnjBvHe&index=13
Today’s Tanya Thought (pt2) :
There is a story about someone who came home late from yeshiva. Thinking that he was eating some food his wife had left out for him, he actually ate the laundry that was left to soak all night.
When he heard about it in the morning, he told his wife, “I thought that the meat was a little tough”.
When we think about the relationship that we have with the Creator, it's important to understand the difference between ‘clothing’, and ‘food’.
When we do a mitzvah; light a Shabbos candle, put on tefillin, it's like ‘clothing’. We are enveloped in G-dliness - but the candle, the tefillin, they're G-dly, and we are us.
When we discuss the relationship we have to HaShem through the gift that G-d gave us of the study of Torah, it's different.
Our body breaks down the Divinity - that is one with G-d – that is inside the Torah, and we absorb it.
It's not that the Torah is the Torah, and we're us – Us, and the Torah which is Divine, become one.