Questions for today:
How do we extend the connection we described yesterday to our entire being?
We learned yesterday that we express our real unity with the Creator by connecting heart and soul with the study of Torah with love and passion.
Today we learn that that's just the beginning. We have to do like it says in the Shema “bechol nafshecah” - this unity has to descend into every part of our Soul.
When our intellect is contemplating Torah thoughts, our emotions are enacting the creator's love, compassion, kindness, our mind is thinking the Creator’s thoughts, our mouth is speaking the creator's laws our hands are doing the creator's action – charity, this is the ultimate embrace and kiss with the Creator.
After this point, we answer a question we had before. Why is it that with sins related to reproduction, it can only be repaired with a high level of return?
Now we understand. This is because the reproductive process is rooted in the brain. The ‘higher level of return’ begins as an exercise of an ‘intellectual’ connection to the Creator.
214 19 Tanya Tammuz 25 ~ m242 19 Tammus 29
Tanya book 3, Ch 9
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