Daily Tanya chapter 49 part 3/3. A dating coach once told me that before I go out on a date I should make sure that I “go to Mikva”. Meaning- I should let go of the rush… let go of the control… let go of the “need for things to look and be a certain way” and enter into my feminine self of receiver… of being openhearted and present with life - exactly as it is. I think that’s what the AR is saying here too… to invite god into our lives… to enter ourselves completely and fully into this relationship - we have to let ourselves be open to reality- exactly as it is- instead of staying fixed on the stories we are making about it. In dating- when we enter into this feminine state of being… this receiving energy … we are able to look at the guy we’re dating and see them for who THEY are, instead of as a projection of who we think they should be. We become OPENHEARTED to the possibility that this could be the beginning of something amazing. I bless all of us- that in this relationship with God, we have the vulnerability to lean into our feminine energy and become curious about what life would be like, what we would look like, how we would feel, and what we would notice about ourselves … if we stopped comparing reality against the version of reality we think “should be” and let ourselves lean into exactly what IS. because what IS- is god. And god is love. I bless myself and everyone else to open our hearts to the possibility that maybe, this exact moment that we are in now… as the exact people we are now… (mamash) is also absolutely and completely inside the love of hashem. And maybe we just have to open our eyes to receive it.