Questions for today:
If our intellect draws us to the Creator, can we dissect that? How can we connect to something higher than ourselves? How can we feel it in a personal and compelling way?
What brings out the soul’s desire to connect to the creator?
That feeling is created and maintained by the intellect, which has different characteristics; When I’m ‘aware of’ a G-dly concept which is shining in all its glory, but I don't understand it yet, we call that Chochmo.
When I bring that concept down through examples, details, I understand it - we call that Bina.
Neither of those bring any emotion. They're ideas I'm thinking about, they're not me.
When I connect to it personally we call that Das – and this connection brings all types of emotion;
When I realize that the Creator made the entire world, that brings awe. When I realize the creator is greater than creating the world, that brings a very humble awe.
When I realize the Creator is my life, I feel love. When I realize that the Creator is greater than my life, I feel a humble love.
All of the above is a constant expression of the feeling of connection which we call Das.
In fact, it is possible to have ‘Das’-connection to the Creator's very motivation for creating the world - which then expands itself into every detail of our full emotional spectrum.
269 49 Tanya Chitas thought for Elul 21 ~ m288b 41b Elul 18b
Tanya book 4, Essay 15, pt4
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