Questions for today:
We learned yesterday that speech is a portal between the Creator and defined existence. How does this fit in our understanding of a world still singular after creation?
Yesterday, we mentioned that characteristics on their own can’t accomplish much. If I want to share a warm feeling, I must find the words to express it.
This concept applies to creation too. The divine characteristics did not create the world. Rather, G-d used speech, the Ten Utterances, to create all the variety that we see in the world around us.
We tend to think of speech as a creation of the mouth. However, as a defining aspect of human beings,language is actually the expression of our ‘soul’. The mouth just acts as the instrument that allows the sound to be heard.
The same thing is true with the written word. The variability that we see on paper is only an expression of the variability within our soul.
We learned regarding the Divine characteristics, that their distinctive definition, or their humble lack of a definition, depends on perspective.
We see divine characteristics as defined and distinct from one another, but they are all one from the divine perspective.
In this same way, all types of communicated ‘language’, and all of creation born out from them, are one from the divine perspective.
193 31 Tanya Tammuz 04 ~ m 221 Tammuz 8
Tanya book 2, Ch 11, Pt 2
We mentioned yesterday that characteristics on their own don't do anything; they need to be formulated into specifics.
We use words to express and formulate our feelings, G-d uses words to formulate all of creation.
Words are an expression of the soul, not of the mouth.
While we see the variety of the different forms of speech within the physical world, it’s all truly one from the truthful divine perspective.
Study today’s Tanya in full:
https://www.chabadmed.com/dailystudy/tanya.asp?tdate=7/7/2022
See today’s video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1_eXJdG6KA&list=PLFZQPK6u-zSC7FvXJfcTF6vOd_JEAABrJ&index=31