m037 033 Tanya Teves 21 ~ 26
Questions for today:
After learning that the average person has a tenured judge in-house, that can always be counted on to vote for evil, how can we be sure to always act properly?
The saddest thing these days is when you go to the playground, and you see a little child, and the child is in Heaven. They are standing right next to their mom or dad, and they yell – look! a butterfly!
Unfortunately, the excitement isn't reciprocated. Sadly, the mother father are standing right there, but their entire attention is swallowed up by a cellphone.
The sad thing is that they're such a great parent. They took off time from work, they brought the child to the playground. They even brought the kid to their favorite attraction…
…They just don't realize that right now when they ‘have to’ respond to this text message, the huge disconnect that it's creating.
Today’s Tanya screams out exactly this message: You don't have to be perfect. G-d's just saying “please don't divorce me, don't disconnect from me”.
For Thousands of years the Jewish people proved over and over that we would rather give up our lives than divorce G-d.
We just don't realize that with this tiny little action, this little speech, this thought that we're thinking - we're creating that exact disconnect.
If we just thought about that for one second, every one of us could really maintain that connection with the Creator.
Tanya book 1, ch14 pt 1
We can all achieve a selfless connection to the creator - we just need to imagine how we would act if we were about to lose it
Study today’s Tanya in full: https://www.chabadmed.com/dailystudy/tanya.asp?tdate=12/30/2021
See today’s video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrPHWLykouo&list=PLFZQPK6u-zSBls9Hwx3P5vKI_BRnjBvHe&index=33