046 Tanya Shvat 5 ~ m50 Shvat 11
Questions for today:
How can I tie my daily choices to my deepest life values?
There are people in our life to whom we would give everything that we have - maybe even our life - to be able to save, but we wouldn't agree to them control the tv remote.
The Tanya was just saying that every Jew has an innate, perhaps hidden, love and bond with the Creator. This explains why for thousands of years there were Jews who may not have been religious, yet they were willing to die rather than to give up their Judaism.
How does I explain why today I should choose to have kosher pizza?
Today’s Tanya tells us a fascinating idea.
When we say that “G-d is one”, most people hear “my G-d is true and everything else is not”.
This outlook can't be farther from what we actually mean. What we mean when we say that ‘G-d is one’, is that every single thing in existence is of, and by, the same source – “One Creator”
This unifying concept is a great tool that we'll use to explain, and hopefully feel, the answer for living properly.
With this perspective, every good thing that we do is a loving act towards our source, and every bad thing we do is a divorcing act tearing us away from our source - the Creator.
Tanya book 1, ch20 pt 1
We may be willing to die for G-d, but how does that help us live for G-d?
Today we begin by explaining how ""One G-d"" is a concept that unifies everything in existence.
Study today’s Tanya in full: https://www.chabadmed.com/dailystudy/tanya.asp?tdate=1/13/2022
See today’s video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFSf976G8lk&list=PLFZQPK6u-zSBls9Hwx3P5vKI_BRnjBvHe&index=46