Questions for today:
We asked earlier, how can our actions possibly result in a deep, intimate connection between us and the Creator?
We asked yesterday how it's possible that the charity that we give elicits a relationship with the Creator - as though the Creator is inhaling, and we're inside ‘one with the Creator’?
Here is where the analogy of planting comes in.
Where does an enormous tree come from? Where does a field with millions of stalks of grain come from?
It's not the seed that's inflating or earning interest. The seed doesn't have the power to create an enormous tree. It's the nutrition inside the mineral - it's the blessing that the Creator gave “Let the earth sprout forth” that makes the tree.
It's just that that blessing is hidden, and also, it's very broad.
The seed reveals G-d’s blessing and also punches in a code for a specific plant .
Similarly, when we give charity the blessing we're getting is the Creator's blessing, it's not our charity that earned interest.
It's just that with our mitzvah, we're ‘punching in a code’
245 25 Tanya Chitas Menachem Av 27 ~ m268c 21c Menachem Av 27c
Tanya book 4, Essay 8, pt3
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