Questions for today:
The Creator set up this world where everything is tied to our work. Yet, where can we find a reward for our work which is nevertheless a true kindness?
We are again going to learn about charity, this time from a prayer that compares it to the abundant yield from planting - where the Divine revelation that results is a huge ‘kindness’ from the creator.
Let’s examine the revelation we get from the Creator, typically when we pray. Now, everything we get in life is from the Creator, so why is this concept, revelation, uniquely called kindness?
What is kindness?
If I pay somebody money that I owe, that's not kindness.
Even if I give a poor person food - or even if I give a wealthy person down on their luck a mansion because they are ‘lacking’ the standard they are accustomed to, I have a Torah/social responsibility to sustain them, so it's not uniquely classified as ‘kindness’.
Imagine a person walking into a museum and staring at a beautiful painting for an hour. The first five minutes, they're taking in the details.
The next fifty-five minutes they're being drawn in by something out of this world.
When the Creator reveals Himself to us during prayer the revelations is kind of like that. It's not only something beyond anything we earned, it's above and beyond any expectation.
243 23 Tanya Chitas Menachem Av 25 ~ m268 21 Menachem Av 27
Tanya book 4, Essay 8, pt1
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