m38 034 Tanya Teves 22 ~ 28
See in blog: ChabadMed.com/TanyaBlog
Questions for today:
What are the two distinct instructions of ‘being righteous’ and ‘not being wicked’?
The Tanya opened up with a statement from the Talmud that every soul is given a vow that it should be righteous, and not to be wicked.
We now understand that it's not redundant, because being righteous is a specific passionate relationship with the creator, where everything that takes us away from G-d feels revolting.
This is not something that's expected of everybody, and therefore it's not a mandate for everybody.
This is why the Soul is told, at least ‘don't be wicked’ because that everybody can do, and that's expected of everybody.
However, even this relationship where we love the Creator so much that everything else it becomes revolting, even that is something that we can work towards.
There are things in all of our lives that we are disgusted by. We can correlate the different temptations that we have, to those repulsive things, and feel the same revulsion to what we were tempted by earlier.
It's important to note then, when we look at anything - and especially any person - and try and correlate that to something that were disgusted by, it's not the ‘thing’ or the ‘person’ that we are disgusted by - it's our own selfish temptation for it that is revolting.
Tanya book 1, ch14 pt 3
Do no harm. Plus, aim to be great.
Study today’s Tanya in full: https://www.chabadmed.com/dailystudy/tanya.asp?tdate=12/31/2021
See today’s video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kPoLFLTD5c&list=PLFZQPK6u-zSBls9Hwx3P5vKI_BRnjBvHe&index=34