070b Tanya Shvat 29b ~ m081 Adar I, 12
Questions for today:
If I live in a G-dly world, yet only see myself, how can I wake up from that?
We are discussing how to develop a relationship with the Creator, specifically how to get past things that get in the way.
Currently we're discussing how we get past the fact that we are so self-absorbed, that we can't feel the relationship with the Creator.
Let’s think how the world was created. There are no ingredients. The creator’s own fantasy concretizes to becomes the universe. This means that every single part of the universe, including seemingly bad things, are there to help facilitate a relationship with the Creator.
When we use those resources for ourselves without any humility or relationship with the Creator, our behavior is inferior even to those seemingly bad things, which are all there to help us connect to the Creator.
How do we break apart that part of our personality?
This thought itself – the knowledge that we have the ability to connect to the Creator with every part of ourselves and everything that we do, but instead, we use it for ourselves – That is the ax that can break apart our stance and help the relationship with the Creator shine through.
Tanya book 1, ch29 pt 4
Today’s Tanya both discusses the depravity of being self-absorbed, and also gives the cure – the cure being, to think honestly of our narcissistic reality.
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