Qesions for today:
What can we learn about the impact of our mitzvos in the physical world from the ultimate measure of all - truth? pt1
One way to try to understand something properly is to look at the result or the reward of the thing we are trying to understand.
The Torah says that when you 'plant' charity, you're going to be guaranteed or blessed with 'truth'
What's the connection?
The Torah says that G-d will 'give' Jacob truth. Does Jacob not have truth that he needs it as a gift?
Truth is not the absence of falsehood. Truth is when every tiny detail is in line with the essence.
Ask a genius to think of something. Then, have them spell it out in words. Next, take one letter of that lesson and compare that to the scholar as a whole.
Way beyond that ratio is the distance between the Essence of the Creator compared to the specificity of a person in time and space.
Abraham's job was to take the greatness of the Creator - with kindness - irrespective of the recipient.
Isaac's role involved strictness - all about, and therefore judging, the specificity of the recipient.
Jacob's role combines both. To take the greatness and the essence of the Creator as it were, down to the specificity of each person, even if their entire temptation and persona is completely distant from the Creator.
237 17 Tanya Chitas Menachem Av 19 ~ m262 15 Menachem Av 21
Tanya book 4, Essay 6, pt1
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