052c Tanya Shvat 11c ~ m059 Shvat 20
Questions for today:
To perform a Mitzvah is to be as one and as in sync with the Creator as my fingers are with me. …but when I want to walk, my dream is not about my feet… it’s about ‘me’ walking.
Is there a way for me to be -not G-d’s limb- but one with G-d’s very self?
We've been speaking about how when a person supersedes their own identity and their own agenda, and they say “I want to be humble to the Creator's innermost desire - I want to do a mitzvah” they become one with the Creator.
We learned that this unity is like a car, which becomes an extension of the driver, or even more, like the way our hands and feet are one with our Soul.
However, even though the file the car follows every single instruction without any questions, and the hands and feet don't even need instructions: when we think we want to move, they move - nevertheless the limbs’ movement, and the soul’s thoughts are on two different planes.
Today we learn about a higher type of unity.
When we occupy our intellect with the thought and ideology of the Torah, eg. when we contemplate how G-d says “love your neighbor like yourself” or we analyze the prohibition against theft, or murder, those ideas are not a ‘message’ from the Creator - those are the creator's own thoughts.
Therefore, as we engross our intellect, our thoughts, in the thoughts and the intellect of the Creator, us and the Creator are not just unifying – we are absolutely one.
Tanya book 1, ch23 pt 4
Taking our unity with G-d up a notch:
By uniting intellectually with the Creator, we become truly one.
Study today’s Tanya in full:
https://www.chabadmed.com/dailystudy/tanya.asp?tdate=1/23/2022
See today’s video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRrcqm9A9Jw&list=PLFZQPK6u-zSBls9Hwx3P5vKI_BRnjBvHe&index=53