047 Tanya Shvat 6 ~ m51 Shvat 12
Questions for today:
I would give my life rather than divorce the Creator and my Jewish Heritage. But which part of my life is related to the bond between me and the Creator? Is there any part of my life, or existence, that is simply ‘nutral’?
Yesterday we learned that our being created of, and by, one Creator unites everyone and everything, making everything related to our connection to G-d.
Today we're going to put that thought on steroids.
We've learned that a friendship that goes away in times of trouble never was a true friendship. The same thing is true with existence. Something disappears when the energy goes away, never truly existed.
We learn that G-d created the world through speech. This tells us that when G-d stops speaking, the world disappears, like a video when you pull the plug out of the projector.
This means that we're not just one because once upon a time we were Created by one Creator - even now as we exist, we're vulnerable to, and within, one source.
Not only that, but the reason why you are you, and I am me, is not because you were created by a hand, and I was created by a foot. Instead, G-d specified us all into existence through speech.
We see with speech that when we speak, those words don't divide or fragment us. In fact, they have no impact on the speaker.
This means even now, as we separately exist, we remain as we are in our source, truly singular and undivided.
Tanya book 1, ch20 pt 2
Our oneness is not because of a historical singular source, it’s a constant - An extension of our perpetual expression from a singular source, while never truly being fragmented.
Study today’s Tanya in full: https://www.chabadmed.com/dailystudy/tanya.asp?tdate=1/14/2022
See today’s video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFU6I_0mGiY&list=PLFZQPK6u-zSBls9Hwx3P5vKI_BRnjBvHe&index=47