Questions for today:
What does our understanding of our relationship with the Creator tell us about the impact of many seemingly small sins?
When we work to understand the impact of our actions in our relationship with the creator, there is an interesting law.
If a person is sick on Shabbos, and they have a choice; food that's not kosher, or slaughtering an animal.
The law is you do a much graver sin, slaughtering the animal on Shabbos, rather than eating bite after bite of food that's not kosher – even if the kosher concern might be a smaller prohibition.
This is because when we're talking about the relationship between us and the Creator, it doesn't matter if we're being blocked by an opaque wall - a grave sin - or by thousands of tiny semi-translucent curtains.
This is especially when we think that some of the seeming small sins, eg. ignoring a poor person/not giving them charity, or getting angry which the rabbis said we should be extremely careful about.
Similarly, the Zohar says that some seemingly small sins; having a problem putting on tefillin, not saying the Shema properly, can impact the very letters of the creator's name.
211 16 Tanya Tammuz 22 ~ m240 17 Tammuz 27
Tanya book 3, Ch 7, pt3
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