Questions for today:
A relationship demands a bridge, a connection. How do we connect to the Creator?
There's a beautiful prayer, and King David also mentions in psalms, that seems to imply two opposites. The Creator is our 'portion' - so 'measured' for us - and also our 'lottery' - entirely luck.
To understand these two but more importantly what do we even mean a 'portion' of the Creator?
In order to explain, let's do some mental calisthenics.
We're used to things being either one of two opposites; either two plus two equals four - it's simple, I can grasp it. Or, something is above my head because it's too deep.
However, the Creator is both: the name of the Creator, "Hakadosh", "Boruch Hu" means both; The Creator is drawn down into every specificity of existence while at the same time the creator is completely aloof.
On the one hand, it’s true that the very essence of the Creator is everywhere. However, in order for me to live a measured intellectual life I don't get to see even a ‘ray’ of even the ‘name - which is normally an external part of something - of the Creator,
I just get spoon-fed tiny measured condensed aspects of this existence.
239 19 Tanya Chitas Menachem Av 21 ~ m264 17 Menachem Av 23
Tanya book 4, Essay 7, pt1
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