Questions for today:
As we learn the fascinating method the Creator uses to bring the world into being, it gives a lot of meaning to each detail in creation. But yet, it does seem to put us physical beings at the very bottom of the chain. Are we indeed the least valuable of existence?
We have been discussing how the Torah formulates each world by acting as the filter for G-dliness to manifest in the lower worlds, and that each world that is created is lower and more physical than the previous one.
We said that each world starts from a seminal intellectual concept, a holy of holies, so to speak, and that idea or spark later expands and expresses itself to formulate that world.
You might think that when you get down to this physical world, it will be the lowest and most dim of all the other worlds. However, exactly the opposite is true.
In the original temple, the Holy of Holies contained the Tablets of the 10 commandments, which represented the core of G-d’s Torah, G-d’s intellect.
G-dliness was the most revealed there, in the Holy of Holies. This is because the way the G-dliness of the Tablets was manifested was not through a chain of events like all the other worlds. Rather, it was written by G-d's own hand.
160 Tanya Sivan 01 ~ m187 Iyar 3
Tanya book 1, ch 53 Pt 1
G-dliness descends, through the Torah's descent, into lower and lower words, in each world first "resting" in the holy-of-holies.
Counterintuitively, the Divine revelation is higher in this material world than in the higher worlds!
This is because in the first temple, the holy-of-holies contained the actual tablets, the core of the Torah, G-d's very intellect.
And these were created, not through a chain of events, like the other worlds, but written by G-d's own hand.
Study today’s Tanya in full:
https://www.chabadmed.com/dailystudy/tanya.asp?tdate=6/2/2022
See today’s video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8Xdu7d2DcY&list=PLFZQPK6u-zSBls9Hwx3P5vKIBRnjBvHe&index=157