Questions for today:
How can we be sure that the infinite Creator is ever present, even while allowing for a limited world to exist?
We're learning how, even though the Kisvei Arizel says that to create a limited world, the Creator did what's called 'Tzimtzum', a contraction, but that doesn't G-d forbid mean that there's any place that's absent of the creator.
In fact the Zohar itself says ’les asar panui minei’, there is no place empty of the Creator.
Now, the Zohar does say that ‘les man detofes bei’, nobody could grasp the Creator. When I can't grasp something, that thing is equally incompatible with me as well.
However, that doesn't mean that the Creator has that same mutual incompatibility.
True, the Creator might be 'stimu dechol stimin', the most secretive - but not because the Creator is not with me. In fact, that same part of the Zohar says that the divine presence is always visible.
We can see it through the fact that opposites in the world could come together productively. This is a standing testimony of the fact that the divine presence is there, uniting them.
183 21 Tanya Sivan 24 ~ m208 m21 Sivan 25
Tanya book 2, Ch 7, Pt 5
Study today’s Tanya in full:
https://www.chabadmed.com/dailystudy/tanya.asp?tdate=6/24/2022
See today’s video: