Questions for today:
Where in the pattern of reconnecting with the Creator do we see a parallel to our origin, our birth?
We are learning about repentance, or 'returning' to the creator.
Our ability to return is an expression of the essential bond that we have with the Creator that's higher than anything good or bad that we could do.
Let's take a look at life.
Life starts with a moment of conception: the person wasn't there and now they begin.
Then you have gestation where every detail is created to perfection.
Then you have life itself: each moment is vital and you can't pause it for a second.
Now let's go back to the 'return'. We said that the core of the Teshuva, return, is the moment when a person says "I want to connect to the Creator".
Then you have concepts such as confession where you make sure that every detail on life is in line with the new person that I want to be, and nothing is getting in the way.
Then you have the expression of re-connection, the relationship, the passion.
In the time of the temple that was expressed through bringing sacrificial offerings.
The Talmud describes how after the destruction the Rabbis would fast, giving of our own flesh and blood to connect to the Creator.
Today this aspect of connecting is done through selfless acts of charity and kindness.
198 3 Tanya Tammuz 09 ~ m226 3 Tammuz 13
Tanya book 3, Ch 2
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