Questions for today:
Where do we find, in our effort to connect to the Creator, the aspect that ‘we’ bring to the table?
We learned yesterday that we could connect to the creator completely by studying Torah and observing the creator's commandments.
However, even though 'we' get the credit for studying the Torah and doing the commandments, it's not 'us' that are creating the bond with the creator.
It's the Creator's light that's inside the Torah, it's the Creator's desire that's inside the commandments, that's reaching down and embracing 'us'.
Today we learn the next step for ‘us’ to climb the ladder to get closer and closer to the Creator until we are completely one.
That ladder connecting us to the Creator, is prayer.
When we meditate in the Creator's greatness, when we contemplate through all the different prayers speaking about the Creator's praises; the way the angels sing about the Creator, the way that the Creator is One, it's ‘us’ getting closer and closer until we're one.
This process of us personally getting closer to the Creator until we unite with the Creator on our own, is something that we could then bring across to our study of Torah and to our observance of the commandments
215 20 Tanya Tammuz 26 ~ m243 20 Menachem Av 1
Tanya book 3, Ch 10, pt1
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