Questions for today:
What impact does one part of me, or one part of the community, have on the rest?
We learned that to rebuild the relationship with the Creator after the destruction of the temple, the rabbis instituted a certain amount of fast for each sin.
This is not as a way of suffering, but rather as a makeup gift to the Creator.
What if somebody sinned multiple times? There are different opinions and these each teach us about the interconnectedness of mitzvos.
Every mitzvah is like a limb on the body and every limb has a unique function.
When we think of that unique function on its own, we would fast that number related to that mitzvah. Fast one time and that limb-mitzvah is elevated.
Separately, every limb is also a partnership made up of every part of the body. If we fast one time it has some impact. Fast a second time, that impact spreads. Then, like the Zohara says, when you fast the third time it spreads across the entire ‘partnership’.
However, we can look at the partnership differently. Every limb and every mitzvah also permeates the rest of the body. if a person sinned five times, that permeation, that energy, went five times all over.
A person would have to fast five times to elevate all of that energy from wherever it is.
199 4 Tanya Tammuz 10 ~ m227 4 Tammuz 14
Tanya book 3, Ch 2
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