Questions for today:
What is so unique about the mitzvah of Tzedaka, charity, that it accelerates the revelation of the Messianic era?
Today (on a regular calendar year) is the 27th of the month of Adar, a momentous day on the Jewish calendar when the love and inspiration of the Lubavicher Rebbe was hidden from us through a terrible stroke.
Today's Tanya touches on two defining Jewish concepts which the Rebbe taught and pushed through his entire leadership;
- The concept of charity, helping other people, is so fundamental to the Jewish tradition that the Jerusalem Talmud doesn't even give it a name, it simply calls it "mitzvah".
-We've been learning the last few days that the defining Jewish concept of the Messianic era is constructed through our investment of our physical talents, and the components of the world around us, revealing the G-dliness inside of them.
This is how those two things come together: There is no Mitzvah that utilizes as much as of our talent and the components of the world around us as charity, because of all the work and talent that we put in to our income.
When we share that with others, we are revealing G-d in every part of our talents and every part of the world around us.
098 Tanya Adar 27 ~ m120a Tanya Adar II, 20a
Tanya book 1, ch 37, Pt 7
Two defining concepts in Judaism come together; the quintessential mitzvah, Charity, and the ultimate goal, the Messianic Era.
We've been learning that the Messianic Era is built through our investment of our physical talents and the components of the world around us, in Gd's mission of good.
The Commandment of Charity involves every part of ourselves and the world around us, and expresses G-dliness into all of it.
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