Questions for today:
Today we use the information that we learned to answer another question we asked at the beginning of this book. Why the need to meditate that there is no other G-d hiding under the earth?
We just explained that the divine entity of Elokim, which restricts our perception of the infinite, and is what allows the physical world to take shape, is itself one with the Infinite Divine.
Now we understand why the Torah tells us that we have to meditate in our heart that there is no other creator above or below.
It might be intuitive that the world was created by the Creator. But we could still make a grave mistake.
The body is completely dependent on the soul for its life, its thought, and its every movement. At the same time, the soul cannot animate a tree, it can only animate a body.
Based on this train of thought, we can erroneously say that yes, the Creator creates the world, but He is forced to do so within the restrictions and rules discovered by Einstein.
So we say no, “Hashem Hu HaElokim,” every aspect of the world, even the definition of right and wrong, are entirely at the whim of the Creator's unfettered, undefined will.
177 15 Tanya Sivan 18~ m204 m17 Sivan 19
Tanya book 2, Ch 6, Pt 3
Now we understand why we need to "place in our hearts" that there is "none other".
Unlike the soul which, while it gives all of the animation to the body, yet it "needs" specifically a body - it can't animate a rock.
The Creator not only brings the world into being, without the creator there would not even be the properties with which the word exists.
Yet this "filter" which brings the world into being, only fools the viewer. Like a parable, or a good punch line, the creator "sees" the full picture at all times, an unconcealed, undivided, divinity.
Always.
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