Questions for today:
We’ve learned of how all of existence is brought into being by, and therefore one with, the Infinite Creator. Now we will explore, what is the relationship of the Creator with the Created world?
An important goal in the second book of Tanya is to explain that the prayer “Shema Yisrael,” that declares that G-d is one, implies a supernal level of the Creator's unity, and that the subsequent verse “Baruch shem” also implies a unity of the Creator, but on a lower level.
Through this we will understand the humility of the world, and its relationship to the Infinite Creator, even as it exists.
To explain this, we have to understand why G-d created a divided world in the first place.
It’s impossible for a human-being to be called a king if he does not have a nation, an “am”. Having 1000 children or a whole bunch of ministers will not make a person a king. To be king, a person needs an autonomous nation that will choose to accept his rulership upon themselves.
Certainly, the Creator doesn’t have such rules that would limit His ability to be king. We say in the prayers, “Adon olam asher malach biterem kul yitzir nivrah,” G-d was king before the world was even created. G-d doesn’t need a nation in order to be the King.
However, in order for this attribute to be revealed, there has to be a physical world, separate and independent of the Creator.
The creation of this divided, physical, world was to reveal G-d’s attribute of ‘Kingship’.
178 16 Tanya Sivan 19 ~ m205 m18 Sivan 20
Tanya book 2, Ch 7, Pt 1
Before we explain the Creator's unity, we need to understand why a divided world was created?
By humans, you can be kind, or any attribute, without anyone receiving anything from you. However it is impossible to be "king" without subjects, who are specifically separate from you.
Obviously the Creator who is all-possible, can be, and is, king without a world created. But to have this attribute revealed, needs a separate world.
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