Questions for today:
What is an appropriate attitude, in our attempt to reconnect with the Creator, to reflect the attitude we would want the Creator to express to us?
We are discussing a relationship-repairing gift after a person does a sin.
In times of the temple this was done by bringing an offering. After the destruction, the rabbis instituted a series of fasts for every type of sin. In later years this was switched to charity.
Even though today's Tanya suggests to do one cycle of fasting for every sin with a capital offense - or similar serious sins that the Rabbis compared - for example, getting angry without purpose.
Nevertheless, because this is guidance based on an individual's health and strength, the Lubavitcher Rebbe in our generation suggests to switch it over entirely to helping other people.
Either physically with charity, or by helping people spiritually.
This still leaves us with a lot of charity we have to give! Not because of 'all the sins that we've done' and we now have to calculate all the meals, and all the fasting, and then find the value of the meals...
Rather, it’s because we're looking to the Creator and we're asking: Please act with us with kindness, judge us without a microscope. Therefore our method of giving should be without a calculator.
201 6 Tanya Tammuz 12 ~ m229 6 Tammuz 16
Tanya book 3, Ch 3, pt3
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