Questions for today:
If our faith in fact describes a relationship and connection that supersedes logical awareness, what are the tools to express that connection?
We mentioned yesterday that "far from being weaker than intellect, faith is the foundation that our relationship to the Creator is based on.
If I'm in a room, and there's a table there, I don't need proof of the table. It's only if I don't see something, then I need proof.
What tool supersedes intellect, yet we can use to achieve the clarity of our relationship with the Creator?
When we think of the attributes of a person; thought, speech, and action, they are different ways of relating to the world outside of us.
Each of them is a bit more of an internal experience than the other.
Action is something totally outside of us. Thought is inside - but it's about something outside of me. If you and I are 'thinking' of a glass of water, we are thinking the same thing.
Desire is totally internal. My 'desire' for a glass of water is mine. It's not the same as your desire even if you are hoping for the same glass of water.
The Creator's laws of the Torah are the Creator's internal desire and they act as the bridge between us and the creator.
On the one hand they are completely the Creator. On the other hand, they are given personally, compellingly, to us.
So the Torah is the relationship between us and the creator.
We express this relationship through deep emotional prayer.
222 02 Tanya Menachem Av 4 ~ m250 02 Menachem Av 8
Tanya book 4, Essay 1, pt2
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