040 Tanya Teves 28 ~ m45 Shvat 6
Questions for today:
The opposite of “true love” would seem to be “true evil”. If that is a condition within our realm, how can we break free?
We recently spoke about how with love, if it goes away in a time of trouble, it was never true love
This is true for the opposite. Meaning, even though we learned that G-d gave everyone the natural power, through intellect, through thed brain, to direct the heart what to love - but that's only true up to a point.
It's possible for a person to so consistently love selfish and wrong things, that they could achieve true negativity and lose complete control over their heart, to be a slave to their heart’s every whim
What's such a person to do?
If they are captive to their heart - they need to ‘break’ their heart.
If a person could bring themself to be truly upset by their negativity, not only could they be freed from the slavery of the heart, but much more.
All the divine potential that was previously animating all their negativity, can now be freed and could be used for good
Tanya book 1, ch17 pt 3
…One notable exception: a person who reaches "true negativity".
- Yet even such a person can break free
Study today’s Tanya in full: https://www.chabadmed.com/dailystudy/tanya.asp?tdate=1/8/2022
See today’s video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJWv-oK2oPA&list=PLFZQPK6u-zSBls9Hwx3P5vKI_BRnjBvHe&index=40