Questions for today:
We realize that our love for G-d is beyond a list of appreciations for the many ‘things’ we have. Is there a way to envision the extent of our love for the Creator?
In order to feel this one properly, I will ask you to hold your breath while reading this for as long as possible, as long as it’s safe.
Which one is greater? To love the Creator as much as we understand the Creator (all of us will have a different understanding), or to love the Creator because He is the source of our life?
The first one seems best because we can relate to it. We feel it, and we have that pleasure.
However, the truth is, we love our life more than every pleasure in the world.
Think of how desperately we need to inhale and how much we want the life that we feel getting weaker. We would give everything away to have it!
We don’t always realize this because a constant pleasure is not a pleasure, so we don't feel it until we lack it and really need it.
Therefore, with regards to our love for G-d, we say “nafshi ivisicha.” We don’t say “G-d, I love you with my soul”. Rather, we say I recognize my soul, and I understand that G-d is the very life that's inside of me, and therefore I love You with all of it.
132 Tanya Iyar 02 ~ m157 Nissan 28
Tanya book 1, ch 44, Pt 1
There are many levels of the love that we can achieve through our understanding of the Creator.
However, there is a much greater love that we can all achieve- the realization that our soul, our life, is G-d. Our love of our life is a love of G-d.
Study today’s Tanya in full:
https://www.chabadmed.com/dailystudy/tanya.asp?tdate=4/29/2022
See today’s video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkcJFnnzBpw&list=PLFZQPK6u-zSBls9Hwx3P5vKIBRnjBvHe&index=131