Questions for today:
If G-d is indeed always one with me, what does that mean about the Divine ‘experience’ within my distasteful acts?
Now that we understand that it's possible for a person to sin, and not sever the relationship with the Creator, let's go back to the analogy of the rope.
Regarding a person’s Soul, which is on a high level. Had it been that when we sin, it severs the relationship with the Creator, that would be a tragedy.
But when we don't sever the rope that also has its problems.
This means that if a person below is living off the 'negative' Divine energy, the soul above is as well.
The person is high enough to be representative of the Divine Presence, but low enough to imbue it with negative G-dliness.
With this possibility, we understand why the Zohar says that the word ‘teshuva’, return, means ‘returning the G-dly 'Hey' back to its original source’.
This is also why when the Talmud describes G-d returning the captives, it translates it "returning 'with' the captives". This is because when we return to live directly with G-d's inner desire, the Divine Presence which we pulled down, is returning with us.
208 13 Tanya Tammuz 19 ~ m237 14 Tammuz 24
Tanya book 3, Ch 6, pt2
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