Tanya: Chapter 6 - Part 1: Tevet 2
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Thank you. Appreciate your answer. If I think about it, it's very deep. Your answer was quite gracious, too. Yasher koach. Reply
Tanya Lekutei Amarim
You asked a very good (and difficult) question. I do NOT consider myself a Tanya expert, just a simple teacher. However, my thoughts:
1. There is an inherent difference between "Boreah" - Creator - and "Nivrah" - creation. G-d is the Creator. A Neshamah, lofty as it is, is a "creation" of G-d.
2. Chaya and Yechida do NOT enter the person, they hover above him. Yes, one can argue that these two levels are more "Boreh" than "Nivrah."
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Tanya Likutei Amarim
If a Jew is a chelek elokah mimal mamash,
why does footnote (9), chapter 4, Likutei Amarim, say the soul remains separate from G-d, only through the garments does it attain true identity with G-d? And when the Alter Rebbe speaks of the soul, he doesn't mention the levels of chaya and yechida. Isn't the yechida totally one with G-d? Thank you.
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Rebbe of Kotzk, Is Rabbe, Kotzk the first to say...
Said when asked where G_d is, "G_d is everywhere you let him in!"
That G_d is only where we allow him to dwell...