Tanya classes – Rabbi Krasnianski: Portal of Unity and Belief (Shaar Hayichud Vehaemunah)

CONCLUSION OF THE SECOND PART, WITH THE HELP OF G-D, MAY HE BE BLESSED AND EXALTED

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Returning to the body of the text, the Alter Rebbe now goes on to illustrate how one utterance (“Let there be a firmament”) created the extensive components of the worlds as well as their specific creatures.Note of the Rebbe This also helps us understand the degree to which

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הגהה- ” ואות מכ״ב אותיות התורה היא המשכת חיות וכח מיוחד פרטי, שאינו נמשך באות אחרתNOTE-trans- Inasmuch as every single one

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The letters that constitute the Ten Utterances, as the Alter Rebbe has just explained, are effluences of the Divine attributes which are wholly united with G‑d Himself. Therefore, though they are termed mere “letters”, they are able to serve as vehicles for creating the wisdom and

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אבל באמת, בחינת אותיות הדבור שלמעלה, היא למעלה מעלה ממדרגת ומהות חכמה ושכל הנבראיםIn truth, however, the Supernal letters of speech are far higher than the level and essence of the wisdom and intellect of created beings.

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כי אף שאינן כאותיות מחשבה שלנו, חס ושלוםAlthough they are not actual letters of thought like our letters of thought, G‑d forbid,The Alter Rebbe had previously drawn an analogy: just as

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The Alter Rebbe explained in the previous chapter that the Sefirot — the Divine attributes, and the Divine wisdom and Will — are designated by their respective names only in relation to created beings, which are granted existence and life and guidance by Him Who enclothes

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The Alter Rebbe now offers an instance of how creation came about through the Sefirot.על דרך משל, ביום ראשון מששת ימי בראשית נגלית מדת החסד, כלולה מכל מדותיו הקדושות, ורצונו וחכמתו ובינתו ודעתו מלובשין בה-trans

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וכדברים האלה ממש ויותר מזה, הן מדותיו של הקב״ה ורצונו וחכמתו בעולם האצילות, עם מהותו ועצמותו, כביכולPrecisely in this manner, and even more so, is [the unity of] (on the one hand) the attributes of the Holy One

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Concluding the previous chapter, the Alter Rebbe explained that since G‑d is infinitely exalted above intellect, intellectual means are inadequate to grasp His absolute union with the Sefirot of the World of Atzilut

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