Questions for today:
Continuing our pursuit: What exercise can we do to hope to fathom the greatness of the Creator?
There is a reason that the human mind can't grasp the Creator.
The pinnacle of physical existence is wisdom. We don’t mean that wisdom is the ‘best’ on a level field. Rather, we are saying that there is a hierarchy with one thing causing the next. The highest level in the hierarchy of existence is wisdom, intellect.
The hierarchy goes as follows: intellect ‘causes’ emotion. We can see this through how a little child with small intellect, will feel emotional about small things.
Next, emotion causes thought. We think about things ‘because’ we care about them.
Then, thought causes speech. When a person speaks, you can ‘see’ in the speech the thought it emanates from. The speech is different based on its source, be it; emotional, philosophical, or practical ‘thought’.
Speech causes action. Even if a person isn’t speaking about what they're going to do, speech represents a portal between our internal and external worlds.
Through action, we express the tiniest amount of our ‘self’. This is nothing compared to our self-expression through speech, which is nothing compared to through thought, which is nothing compared to through emotions, which is nothing compared to through our intellect.
With the power of the intellect in mind, let us remember that the intellect, like everything else, was created by G-d – as an object.
When we view this process, and bear in mind how our seminal origin is an ‘object’ to the Creator, we will understand why our intellect cannot grasp the true nature of the Creator.
Tanya book 2, Ch 8, Pt 2
Our inability to grasp the Creator is practical.
The highest level in the hierarchy of existence is wisdom:
Intellect causes emotion - children with small Intellect love small things
Emotion causes thought - we think about things because we care about them
Thought causes speech - you can hear in a person's speech their emotional source.
Speech causes action - Even if a person doesn't speak, speech is the portal between inside of ourselves, and outside of ourselves.
And all of these are nothing compared to the one above it; our "self" in action is nothing compared to it in speech, which is nothing to thought, to emotion, to Intellect
....and the Creator made Intellect as an object.
Study today’s Tanya in full:
https://www.chabadmed.com/dailystudy/tanya.asp?tdate=7/1/2022
See today’s video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0p4t3A0A5U&list=PLFZQPK6u-zSC7FvXJfcTF6vOd_JEAABrJ&index=24