041 Tanya Teves 29 ~ 46 Shvat 7
Questions for today:
So far, the love that we learned that we can achieve comes through a thought process. But what do I do if I find that process difficult?
You may have heard of how Yankel became wealthy. He sold a few Shmattes for a dollar. He bought a few more, and sold them for two dollars.
That night, his uncle passed away and left him an inheritance of ten million dollars.
We just spent Seventeen chapters studying about the way that the Torah says that everybody can achieve a love of the Creator, through proper contemplation. However, that method is not very close.
Today, we learn of a new way to achieve love the Creator: We don't need to create this love from scratch. We just have to reveal an innate love that we have for the Creator.
However, this presents a lot of questions; Where does this love come from? What type of love is it?
Today we're going to touch on one of the questions. Parents can genetically imbue their child with loving nature, but that doesn't compel the child with what to love, so how could our forefathers have inherited to us the love of the Creator?
The idea is that our forefathers were so infatuated with love in every part of their lives, that this love defined who and what they were.
Therefore, what we get from them, or what we achieve through a proper Torah conversion, is a soul that has an innate love and fear of the creator.
Tanya book 1, ch18 pt 1
We all have an innate love of the Creator, and we just need to reveal it.
Study today’s Tanya in full: https://www.chabadmed.com/dailystudy/tanya.asp?tdate=1/9/2022
See today’s video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-X6TCer_5E&list=PLFZQPK6u-zSBls9Hwx3P5vKI_BRnjBvHe&index=41
Additional thoughts for today’s Tanya
When a love is a result of a thought process, we don’t need to know the source of the love, it’s coming from the thoughts.
We also don’t need to ask what type of love it is. Each love is, in its core, a specific bridge to connect something. If the love is coming from a thought, then the love is a yearning to achieve the connection that was being thought of.
Here we need to ask these questions. Since the love is innate from our Soul, we need to know its root, and what type of love it is.