052c Tanya Shvat 11c ~ m059 Shvat 20
Questions for today:
I understand that I can think G-dly things, but how special is my ability to “do” things?
We are learning how we could be humble to, and be one with, the Creator. Through this, we can live and experience the world from the Creator’s perspective - where there is no division.
Our Soul has ten components including kindness and strictness, etc. Our Soul also had three clothing;
The ability to think, is an internal processing ability. The clothing of speech is in the middle, it's an internal process, but it relates to the outside world.
The ability to act is a clothing of the soul that it can interact with things completely outside of ourselves.
When this clothing, our ability to act, is involved in a mitzvah, it's like the creator's limbs: It's completely in sync with, and it actually reveals, the creator's innermost desire.
Our hands and feet that are fulfilling the soul’s clothing and ability to act, are also revealing and expressing the creator's desire.
But they are like a chariot. A chariot does what the rider wants, but it doesn't fit like a glove.
Tanya book 1, ch23 pt 3
The third clothing of our Soul, our ability to interact with the outside world, can be the Creator’s very limbs.
- And our limbs, can be the Creator’s chariot.
Study today’s Tanya in full:
https://www.chabadmed.com/dailystudy/tanya.asp?tdate=1/22/2022
See today’s video:
https://youtube.com/shorts/PSGJBQerriU?feature=share
Additional thoughts:
We generally described our Body as being an expression of the soul. However, that’s not entirely accurate.
Our external organs – our hands and feet – act entirely based on our will. Our internal organs do not.
We don’t control our digestive system, or our hard for that matter based on what we would like.
Similarly, it’s our external ability to act that truly expresses G-d’s inner most desire