056 Tanya Shvat 15 ~ m063b Shvat 24b
Questions for today:
While we’ve analyzed the full, honest, understanding of what we do when we do wrong, we also need to include in our self-judgment the choices we make when we are properly informed. [or, consciously aware]
[Recorded at the holy site of Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai, in Meron.
Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai defined his life by the fact that our soul was not just attached to the Creator, or connected the Creator, but ‘one’ with the Creator.]
We spent seventeen chapters of the Tanya explaining that a person could contemplate their connection to the Creator, and through this, develop a love for the Creator.
Then we said that if a person can't contemplate this, then they should realize that the entire world is created of, and by, One Creator. We don't need to ‘connect’ with the Creator because we already are one.
If we are only humbled to that fact, then we remove any type of separation made by creation and we become one.
On the other hand, if we do even the tiniest sin, we are standing up and saying that the Creator is irrelevant, and we separate ourselves.
Therefore, it is so important to focus on today’s Tanya. Today we learn a quote from the Talmud that says that a Jew would never consciously tear themselves away from the Creator. It's just the that they don't notice that this little act they are doing, is sadly doing exactly that
Tanya book 1, ch24 pt 2
Since any sin separates us from the creator, and since no Jew wants to be cut off from the creator, this reckoning gives every Jew the ability to live, day by day, connected.
Study today’s Tanya in full:
https://www.chabadmed.com/dailystudy/tanya.asp?tdate=1/26/2022
See today’s video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kubohHs9oME&list=PLFZQPK6u-zSBls9Hwx3P5vKI_BRnjBvHe&index=56