Questions for today:
How does the distinction between infinite spiritual worlds, and finite physical worlds, teach me about the impact of my influence on the world around me?
This concept that we've been discussing, regarding supernal and physical worlds, also applies to Souls.
In existence, supernal worlds reflect the inner 'soulful' origins of speech, and the physical world is an expression of the actual 'substance' - the breath, the words, of speech
In people we have a similar distinction.
You have people that are academic; they're nice, they give, they're kind - but it's academic, they help people ‘understand’ things.
And then there are people that are ‘impactful’; they give physical charity.
Because the Creator's desire for creating the world was to have a 'physical impact' it's that ‘physical charity’ that elicits from the Creator a desire to condense Himself to make a physical world.
This is why one of the descriptions of charity is 'maaseh hatzedaka' the construction, the creation, through tzedaka.
When King David gave charity he 'made' the Creator's name. Of course there was a Creator's name before, but he brought it into the physical world so you can see it and touch it.
236 16 Tanya Chitas Menachem Av 18 ~ m261 14 Menachem Av 20
Tanya book 4, Essay 5, pt6
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