045 Tanya Shvat 4 ~ m49c Shvat 10c
Questions for today:
If I am proud to die for the Creator, why don’t I live for the Creator?
A tour group is captured by tribe of cannibals. As the pot is boiling they give each prisoner a last request.
The Israeli tourist says “I want to be given a big kick”. As he's flying painfully through the air, he pulls out a submachine gun, and everybody in the tribe with a weapon is dead.
His companions ask him, why didn’t you do that beforehand? He responded, “I didn't want them to call me the aggressor”.
Today's Tanya askes the question, if through the ages we've seen thousands of Jews willing to die for the Creator, how is it that those same people often did not live a religious life?
The answer is, because the life that we live is from the energy that ‘comes out’ of the soul. That energy could be kidnapped. It could be captured and there it could animate whatever is the excitement of the day.
But the soul itself that we've been describing could never be kidnapped or captured. It could just be dormant, sleeping.
When this soul, with its innate love, feels that it's about to be torn completely away from its source, it wakes up with a fright and it yells out: “I can't be, or do, anything that goes against who or what I am!”
Tanya book 1, ch19 pt 3
The energy that emanates from the soul can be captured, the soul cannot.
The innate love we have for the Creator, can express a deep fear.
Study today’s Tanya in full: https://www.chabadmed.com/dailystudy/tanya.asp?tdate=1/12/2022
See today’s video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3Cq_ETpaXw&list=PLFZQPK6u-zSBls9Hwx3P5vKI_BRnjBvHe&index=45