Questions for today:
Aside from being innately one with the Creator, G-d also gave us a bridge to feel that connection despite the great spiritual-physical divide. How does this bridge work?
When we want to connect two opposites we have to have something in the middle that has a little bit of both.
For example, when the Soul wants to have an emotional experience, we have to ‘think’.
Thought is partially spiritual, partially specific, this allows our spiritual Soul to experience emotion.
Today's Tanya opens with a verse that describes the Torah as our connection to the creator. We reference a verse that teaches that the Torah is both; 'Ohr' and, 'Kasalma' - partially a 'light', partially a 'specific clothing'.
[In preparation for the expansion of this idea in the coming days, we ask a question.]
The one that helps us bridge that divide, by revealing the Torah to us, is Moses. The Zohar teaches that Moses' comprehension was able to reach to the external intellect of the highest world of Atzilus.
This is intriguing, because we find later scholars comprehending and explaining worlds much higher than that.
How is it possible that later scholars were able to comprehend higher than Moses?
277 57 Tanya Chitas thought for Elul 29 ~ m295 48 Elul 25
Tanya book 4, Essay 19, pt1
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