Questions for today:
G-d’s love for our nation, even while in the lows of Egypt, is legendary. Where to I find that low within myself?
An important component in our focusing on the Creator’s love for us, which then stimulates our love back to the Creator, is that the Creator came down to the immorality of Egypt, where we were assimilated with the lowest of the low to take us by the hand and give us the Torah.
Now, I don't know about you, but I've never been to Egypt. So how does this impact me?
Today's Tanya puts together two mishnayos that tell us that every Jew has an obligation to leave Egypt every day.
Egypt is not just a country, rather it's an obstructive frame of mind that our physical bodies put us into every day, which we need to free ourselves from.
When we say, “Shema Yisrael, G-d is our G-d,” we're not just claiming an inheritance from Abraham, who connected to the Creator with his work. We're also receiving a gift that G-d gave us at Mount Sinai and gives us every day: the ability to connect with the Creator and become one with Him every day.
143 Tanya Iyar 13 ~ m169 Iyar 11
Tanya book 1, ch 47
Loving the Creator because He lovingly descended to Egypt to free us, applies today.
The captivity of Egypt was not only geographical. Our physical paradigms trap us as well.
G-d gifted us with the ability to connect to and unite with the Creator on a daily basis, which is how He is still saving us from Egypt in the present.
Study today’s Tanya in full:
https://www.chabadmed.com/dailystudy/tanya.asp?tdate=5/11/2022
See today’s video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMMNS6ThlJc&list=PLFZQPK6u-zSBls9Hwx3P5vKIBRnjBvHe&index=142