069b Tanya Shvat 28b ~ M079 Adar I, 10
Questions for today:
What are these calluses that prevent our spirituality from shining?
Yesterday, we used the example from the Zohar of a piece of wood that needs to be broken down in order to catch fire.
The problem wasn't the heat of the fire, so it wouldn't help to make that bigger. It also wasn't the energy content of the wood, so it wouldn’t help to add to that.
The problem catching fire was just the thickness of the log - So we had to break it down.
Where do we find that in our life; that it's not the amount of love for the Creator, or even our susceptibility to spirituality that gets in the way, but just some sort of thickness?
We find that God created the entire world for the purpose of serving the creator, the world on its own has no intrinsic value.
To make up for it, the physicality of the world develops valueless density; it tries to convince us that it is very important to come in a second faster in a race, or to be an inch taller, a pound thinner.
Because it creates this valueless density to hide the spiritual purpose underneath, we have to break up that density in order to allow the spirituality underneath to shine through.
Tanya book 1, Ch 29, pt 2
Now that we learned that we all have a natural love for the creator, we are dealing with external obstructions. We discussed depression, now we discuss physical calluses.
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