Questions for today:
Of all of life’s questions, today’s runs deepest. If an all-powerful, all-capable – and deeply loving Creator fashions existence into reality from pure untainted Divine imagery, where does pain come from? Why do we suffer?
Please see a link below to a talk from the Rebbe, “the question remains”
Today's Tanya is a paramount perspective for life's challenges.
This lesson is not a response to suffering.
The response to suffering is a hug, and we pray that everything from the creator is only clearly revealed good.
However, this perspective, when practiced every day, can hopefully help us be a bit like Reb Zusha.
Reb Zusha lived in dire poverty. Someone once came to him to learn how to thank the Creator even while suffering. He told him, "Please ask someone who's suffered, I’ve never suffered"!
This perspective is not like a child who appreciates schlepping luggage to a camping trip, or waiting on line in amusement park – a small stress for a larger benefit.
This is the perspective of someone you can take with you on a grueling mountain climb, because every moment, every difficult step, is appreciated as a cherished experience - time with you.
This isn't a solution - this is the creator's quintessential desire in creation: That we should see every part of life as a manifestation of G-d's innermost desire, and that every single part of life is a precious moment together.
Talk of the Rebbe: the questions remain: https://videos.jem.tv/video-player?clip=2547&produced=400
254 34 Tanya Chitas Elul 6 ~ m274 28 Elul 4
Tanya book 4, Essay 11, pt1
Study today’s Tanya in full:
https://www.chabadmed.com/dailystudy/tanya.asp?tdate=8/31/2022
See today’s video: