m033 028 Tanya Teves 16 ~ 22
See in blog: ChabadMed.com/TanyaBlog
Questions for today:
How can I see that I still have work to do?
I have a friend whose main role in camp was entertainment. He had a card which said, when you pass by a construction site, anybody involved in building stops and looks. When you pass by a painter, everybody who is into art stops and looks - but when you pass by a clown, everybody stops and looks. Why? because we're all a little bit of a fool.
We've been speaking about the ‘beinoni’, a so-called intermediate person that is in complete control of their action, their speech, even their thought. Why doesn’t that person deserve the technical definition of tzadik, a fully righteous person?
Because in order for all of us to graduate from this level of ‘Beinoni’, we would have to define ourselves only and completely with the privilege and purpose of our relationship with the creator.
So much so, that if we saw somebody skydiving, or we saw an invitation to the Opera, or we saw delicious donut, our only thought would have to be, “what impact could I have with this?” or, hmm that’s an interesting thing that some other people do.
Tanya book 1, ch12 pt 3
Study today’s Tanya in full: https://www.chabadmed.com/dailystudy/tanya.asp?tdate=12/26/2021
See today’s video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RVHv-hQdfk&list=PLFZQPK6u-zSBls9Hwx3P5vKI_BRnjBvHe&index=28