M029 024pt 2, Tanya Teves 11pt2 ~ Teves 16
Questions for today:
If I am not tempted to do anything wrong, does that mean that I fully love the Creator? How can I measure the extent of my love, and perhaps uncover any inappropriate self-love?
The way that today's Tanya tells us how to measure a fully righteous person takes a common intuitive perspective and turns it around.
Intuitively, we think that a loving person will love everything.
Today's Tanya tells us not only is that not 100% accurate, it might actually be the reverse.
Imagine a Holocaust survivor teaching a presentation in a modern teenage classroom. One of the students raised their hand and asks, why the hatred to the Nazis? Why not just be sad for the victims?
Where's the question coming from?
This isn’t because the teenager has so more love.
It's coming because the child never felt the deep attachment of unmitigated love. What they're seeing in the senior citizen is what Tanya today says: True, deep, love doesn't have the tiniest shred of sympathy - In fact, the opposite: It has a deep anger or hatred to anything that's so cruel and the opposite of life.
Study today’s Tanya in full:
https://www.chabadmed.com/dailystudy/tanya.asp?tdate=12/20/2021
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