048b Tanya Shvat 7b ~ m54 Shvat 15
Questions for today:
If we never separate away from the Creator, how is our existence sufficiently distinct to be called “speech”?
We are discussing this topic at length, because it's at the crux of existence.
Science grapples with how zero plus zero could create a world. We don't start with zero, we start with a beyond-infinite Creator, but we have the same question: How could something undefined and without change, create the world we see?
The example that we give is speech, which puts words to our undefined thoughts.
However, now we have another question. We just explained that even after creation, existence is still one with the Creator. If that is the case, how is that a parable to ‘words’ which come ‘out’ of me?
Today's Tanya teaches another impact that words have. Words reveal what's inside.
Whereas my thoughts are only thoughts after they ‘leave’ the emotions that cause them, and my words are only hearable after they ‘leave’ me, the Creator’s ten utterances which bring about existence - and me and you - are hearable and visible even while they are within the Oneness of the creator.
Tanya book 1, ch21 pt 2
The Torah uses the parable of speech to describe creation, not because creation is ‘outside’ of the Creator, as is our speech, but because creation, like our words, is a revelation.
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