m40 035b Tanya Teves 23b ~ Shvat 1
Questions for today:
What drives our study of Torah, what drives out fulfillment of the mitzvos?
In this chapter, we're describing a very important criteria in the relationship that we have with the Creator.
Unlike intuitively, where we think that a perfect person is great and an imperfect person is bad, here we're saying a different thing:
There's a difference between a person that struggles for the relationship with the Creator, or a person that has it easy.
There is an important phrase in the way we describe this today. We say that a person that has it easy they study Torah and do mitzvos can to them with their “hidden love” that is inside their soul.
We earlier used love as a description for the fuel that helps us ‘battle’ our challenges. If this person is not struggling, why do they need any love?
But of course they need love.
The reason we are studying Torah is not because it’s interesting. The reason we are doing mitzvos is not because they're meaningful.
We do them because of our love for the Creator.
However, a person that God granted them an easygoing nature, it's enough for them to use the inner love that they have in their heart.
A person that has challenges has to weaken a burning love to overcome those challenges.
Tanya book 1, ch15 pt 2
The Study of Torah, the observance of mitzvos are a love language.
Study today’s Tanya in full: https://www.chabadmed.com/dailystudy/tanya.asp?tdate=1/3/2022
See today’s video:
https://youtu.be/kcJn1MGhvw8