Questions for today:
What can possibly allow for our existence, and yet not be nullified in the ever present infinite existence of the Creator?
We learned yesterday that when you put a candle in the sun, the candle completely disappears.
Our limited world, within the Infinite Creator is similar to that: if the Divine presence in our physical world would not come down through a filter, our world would disappear.
What is this filter? If it is limited than why doesn't the filter disappear? Or conversely, if this filter is of greater divine power than the Shechinah and can withstand the Infinate, then why doesn't the Shechinah disappear?
This ‘filter’ is actually the gift that we will celebrate in a couple of days. It is the Torah.
On the one hand, the Torah is a part of G-d Himself. On the other hand, the Torah acts like water, descending to the lowest level, becoming revealed specifically to us.
As the Torah is transmitted to the lower worlds, it acts as a filter that formulates those worlds, down to our physical world where we can physically fulfill the 613 commandments.
157 Tanya Iyar 27 ~ m185 Iyar 29
Tanya book 1, ch 52 Pt 2
How do we "filter" infinite, G-dly light? If the filter is small enough to create limitation, wouldn't it be overpowered like a candle in the sun?
And if the 'filter' is of more internal G-dliness than the divine source where creation stems from, wouldn't it wash out the lower divine source?
The filter is the Torah: on the one hand, a part of the Creator while also being revealed and lowered for us.
Study today’s Tanya in full:
https://www.chabadmed.com/dailystudy/tanya.asp?tdate=5/31/2022
See today’s video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Q36NvBdpr4&list=PLFZQPK6u-zSBls9Hwx3P5vKIBRnjBvHe&index=154