039 Tanya Teves 27 ~ m43 Shvat 4
Questions for today:
What does G-d mean that us, me and you, are can ‘easily’ love the creator?
This woman finally convinces her husband he has to go to relationship therapy. He comes back and he says, “Honey, ‘my therapist told me I should tell you’ that I love you.
There is a flip side of that example. Someone who's dating for two years, for four years, but since they don’t feel the mythical romantic passion that they see in all the movies, they can’t propose.
What's the appropriate middle?
The Tanya tells us that the distinctive significance of life on Earth is the ability to have an impact.
With that in mind, when the Torah tells us that not only it is ‘close’, but it's ‘very close’ for everybody, to be able to not only behave properly, and speak properly, but even to love God with our hearts - It's not talking about a ‘passionate feeling’ of romance.
Yes, that feeling is obtainable. But what is close to us everyday, is a different level of ‘love’. It is referring to the ability to contemplate a relationship with the Creator, to the point that we can do acts that are appropriate for this relationship, from the conviction of our own ‘heart’.
Tanya book 1, ch17 pt 1
It is indeed very close...in your heart, to do.
All of us can achieve love. If not passionately each day, at least enough to ""do"" loving acts"
Study today’s Tanya in full: https://www.chabadmed.com/dailystudy/tanya.asp?tdate=1/6/2022
See today’s video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7GkIc9zA_g&list=PLFZQPK6u-zSBls9Hwx3P5vKI_BRnjBvHe&index=39