Questions for today:
We asked how we can speak about a ‘portion’ of the Creator, and why something described as a portion can also be described as a lottery. Most importantly, how do I feel and connect to this?
We learned that we are all part of a collective human soul whose specifics – the individual souls - parallel the 613 aspects of the creator's desire. Now, we can understand what it means a ‘portion’ of the Creator.
Even though individually we're all obligated to complete ourselves by fulfilling all 613 commandments, there will be one – the mitzvah whose detail we embody - that we're more particularly in tune with.
The mishnah says "Mai havo zohir tfei?" what was your father more particular about? Or, another way to translate it, which specific mitzvah made your father shine?
How do we each find which mitzvah we embody?
There might be one thing that really inspires us. Or, the opposite - there might be something that we find uniquely difficult, because that commandment is our core mission and goal.
This portion is called a ‘lottery’.
This is because when you have something that's given out, not because of a skill or a measurement, but from deep within the Creator's desire - above and beyond any logic, we call that a lottery.
242 22 Tanya Chitas Menachem Av 24 ~ m267 20 Menachem Av 26
Tanya book 4, Essay 7, pt4
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