Questions for today:
Although the methods that we learned would help us achieve a natural love for the Creator, wouldn’t that be a problem? Doesn’t our nature limit us?
We have been discussing different realms of existence. When I deal with things in a physical way, everything interacts with each other within the limits and boundaries of physicality.
However, if I deal with those same factors on an intellectual level, then there's much more plasticity and depth to it. I can ‘understand’ a logical perspective opposite of what I consider the truth. I cannot ‘feel’ an emotion opposite of what I’m feeling.
When we describe the love that we have for the Creator, we discuss very deep levels. We say that I intellectually recognize the Creator as my life, and love the creator with all my life. I recognize that I come from the Creator, and I yearn to be close to Him like a child who runs towards his parents.
But at the end of the day, these feelings ‘naturally’ occur within the soul. So therefore, won't this love exist in the physical, limited, realm?
The answer is no. In order to express, feel, and create this love, I have to go through an intellectual process.
The intellect must stimulate and create this love and therefor the love can exist on this higher, intellectual, level.
135 Tanya Iyar 05 ~ m160 Iyar 1
Tanya book 1, ch 44, Pt 4
If the soul naturally feels this great love for the Creator, wouldn't we experience and feel this love in the physical realm?
This is not the case. Since we facilitate these forms of love through intellectual pursuit, they will reach and exist in the higher, intellectual, realm.
Study today’s Tanya in full:
https://www.chabadmed.com/dailystudy/tanya.asp?tdate=5/2/2022
See today’s video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qiY7WUFMTEA&list=PLFZQPK6u-zSBls9Hwx3P5vKIBRnjBvHe&index=134