Questions for today:
If everything physical is measured by its limits, how can it have true value? How can something measured by number or on a scale be appreciated on a level that is immeasurable?
We're discussing how we can have a 'portion' of an 'infinite' Creator.
We spoke how the creator is "hakadosh" “Baruch Hu” – both in every detail of the world, but also aloof, so we can't grab on to any detail.
But there is variability in the world with importance. In fact, more so than anything else.
If I want a hundred of something that ‘has value’, then each of those things will have some value - if I get 99 of them, that's great.
But if I want a hundred of something that has ‘no intrinsic value’, eg. I want a hundred toothpicks on display, if I get 99 I didn’t get what I want, and I have nothing.
The variability in this world came because the creator has a desire for a human being made up of 613 parts. Around that are 613 commandments with infinite detail in the torah.
Their value is only because "the Creator wanted it".
Because of this, every detail shares a core intrinsic critical value.
240 20 Tanya Chitas Menachem Av 22 ~ m265 18 Menachem Av 24
Tanya book 4, Essay 7, pt2
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