Questions for today:
How do we have two elements of the physical world, our material body and our physical life, yet with such differences in the G-dliness they are imbued with?
We're learning about the difference between our physical action, and the thoughts and intention behind it by using an example of body and soul.
When you teach mathematics there are two methods to explain something complicated; one way is to simplify the ideas. The lower the grade of the class we're teaching, the more simplified the concepts we'll teach.
The second method is to hide the ideas in a parable; You have two apples, a train leaving from Boston, etc.
Both our physical body, and our 'soul' - the physical life force that's within our body - are both completely hidden from G-dliness. It’s as though they form a parable in which G-d is hidden.
Our G-dliness is hidden in both body and Soul, but very differently.
Behind the veil of the body is a very simplified and constricted level of G-dliness. However, the life force within our body - the soul so to speak – the G-dliness hidden within it is much more inherent, inspirational, and Divine.
103 Tanya Nissan 3 ~ m123 Tanya Adar II, 23
Tanya book 1, ch38 p3
A great There are two way that G-d "restricts" Himself to create the world.
they are similar to how when teaching, we can; 1) simplify the ideas 2) hide them in a parable.
Our body and its physical life force are both hidden from G-dliness. But within the hiding, the G-dliness in the body is constricted to a much lower level.
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