Questions for today:
Causing joy is great, but what impact do we have?
A prisoner has experienced 10 years of difficult forced labor.
When he is finally freed, he runs to the other side of the factory to see the fruits of his labor, as he had been turning a winch every day for many years.
He cannot believe his eyes. The gears that he had been tirelessly turning for days, months, and years, were not attached to anything. The resistance he had felt was merely from a resistance band, he had been fooled to think that he was accomplishing something productive.
He can't handle this realization. He falls and dies.
We just spent many chapters learning the deep emotional impact of the G-dly soul’s struggle in the dark environment of the animal soul.
However, at the end of the day, our physical setting is still an animal soul. If that hasn’t changed, then why are we here? What have we accomplish through the everyday humdrum of life?
We're starting a new segment of the Tanya where we will learn that our impact in the world is not limited to being joyous and illuminating.
We are going to learn that the place where the Creator is revealed the most is actually in the thing that is our specialty – physical, mundane, action.
087 Tanya Adar 16 ~ m103 Adar II, 4
Tanya book 1, ch 35, Pt 1
Our lives in the physical world don’t only cause joy and light, it makes a difference?
Study today’s Tanya in full:
https://www.chabadmed.com/dailystudy/tanya.asp?tdate=3/7/2022
See today’s video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mP2MZlSLfmQ&list=PLFZQPK6u-zSBls9Hwx3P5vKIBRnjBvHe&index=88