Questions for today:
I understand that the Soul brings G-d joy through its challenges in its bodily life, but why does it need to live a lifetime inside of a body, why can't it just wrestle with it?
We learned that the soul comes down into the body that's not just imperfect, but that pulls away from G-dliness.
The Creator puts the soul within the body to provide us with a challenge so that *through that challenge, we can bring G-d tremendous joy and illuminate the world.*
However, if that's the only goal, our soul could have come down and wrestled with the body instead of living inside of it.
The fact that the soul lives inside the body tells us that *part of the Soul's goal is to lift up the body as well.*
The Tanya quotes a Zohar to help explain this concept. The Zohar describes that a candle can burn when oil is used. *Oil is needed because it’s a fuel that is prone to combust easily.*
The combustion of the fire can be analogous to the revelation of the Creator.
What is the oil in our lives? In other words, *what will be prone to combust, aka to reveal G-dliness?*
Naturally, we might think it would be our emotions or our thoughts. However, the Zohar tells us that *our actions* more than anything else reveal G-dliness.
How can we reveal G-dliness? What is prone to bring the Creator into our lives and allow for Him to live with us? *It is through our physical actions that we accomplish these things.*
087b Tanya Adar 16b ~ M104 Tanya Adar II, 5
Tanya book 1, ch 35, Pt 2
As we you work in this world 2 make the choices that bring God enjoy, we're also revealing G-dliness within the world itself
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