059c Tanya Shvat 18c ~ m068 Shvat 29
Questions for today:
I understand that my connections to the Creator are permanent for the Creator, but what about for me?
Let's grapple with a mind-bending question. Einstein explains that time is dependent on existence. If we could step before existence, when there is no time, how can that change? There is no ‘now’ and ‘then’ for there to be any change.
A few chapters ago, we explained how the Creator straddles time and timelessness. It’s like a teacher teaching students with a parable. The students just see the details of the parable, but the teacher sees the bigger picture and isn't limited to those details.
In that sense, even as we live moment to moment, the Creator is timeless.
This adds a significant strength to what we discussed yesterday. If a person is willing to take a stand and be executed rather than to sever ‘temporarily’ from the Creator, how much more so we should do loving mitzvahs to connect to the Creator, which is ‘permanent’.
Now we see that that permanence is not just because the Creator, in a spiritual realm, remembers it forever.
Even us, living moment to moment in this world, when we do a commandment, we are connecting on the Creator's plane, and we are timeless with that mitzvah.
Tanya book 1, ch25 pt 4
The timelessness that we achieve while connecting to the Creator is not just a spiritual experience. It is a part of who we are as well.
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