Questions for today:
How can our minds possibly grasp, in fact, ‘know’, the Creator?
In this letter we're going to understand the divine characteristics called Sephiros.
Before we begin, how is it possible for the human mind to grasp something that's Divine?
This is an important question because Maimonides doesn't describe an obligation from the Torah to 'believe' in the creator, the obligation is to 'know' the creator.
In fact, Maimonides teaches that it's impossible to love and fear the creator without some ‘knowledge’ of the creator.
To answer this, this letter brings a verse in which the Torah tells us we could use our flesh and blood as a metaphor to understand the creator.
In fact, we're reminded that our soul is imbued into us by the creator - breathing from the creator's very inner self into us. Our soul is a product of the creator's wisdom which is part of the creator and develops into us.
This doesn't just explain how it's possible for our flesh and blood to be a metaphor to understand the creator, but also how our intellect is capable of grasping Divine concepts.
265 45 Tanya Chitas thought for Elul 17 ~ m284 37 Elul 14
Tanya book 4, Essay 15, pt1
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