Daily Tanya Shabbos 2nd Tamuz Shaar Hayichud Viemuna Chapter 10 Part 2: Chesed and Gevurah in the days of creation

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2nd Tamuz

1.      The Role of Kindness in Creation

  • On the first day, the attribute of kindness (chesed) was revealed to create light through the utterance, “Let there be light.”
  • This light represented diffusion and flow, embodying kindness through its expansive nature.
  • The attribute of might (gevurah) was also included, limiting the light to fit the constraints of the finite world.

2.      The Role of Might on the Second Day

  • On the second day, the attribute of might was revealed to create the firmament, separating upper spiritual waters from lower material waters.
  • This act symbolized tzimtzum (contraction) and restraint to prepare the world for habitation.
  • Kindness remained included as the ultimate goal was to enable life and service to God on dry land.

3.      Integration of Attributes Throughout Creation

  • Each subsequent day revealed other emotive attributes, all interwoven with kindness and might, to bring creation into existence.
  • The attributes demonstrated how the world is conducted with balance, involving righteousness, justice, mercy, and other qualities.

4.      The Purpose of Sefirot

  • The sefirot were not meant to define God’s attributes as knowable but to illustrate how the world is governed with divine principles.

About The Author

Rabbi Yaakov Goldstein is a 6th generation descendent of the famous Chief Rabbi of Izhmir, Rav Yehoshua Avraham Krispin, who authored a number of Sefarim, and was a colleague of Rav Chaim Falagi, and father in-law of the Pesach Hadvir. He currently lives with his wife Shayna, and twelve children K”H, in Tzfas, Israel. Rabbi Goldstein received Semicha from Rabbi Schneur Zalman Labkowski of the Tomchei Temimim headquarters in 2005 and served as a chaplain in the Lotar/Kalatz and K9 unit of the IDF from years 2005-2008. He is also a certified Shochet, and has performed Hashgacha work in slaughterhouses. Rabbi Goldstein is the director of Shulchanaruchharav.com, the world’s leading web-based Halacha database, and is the director of the Home Study Semicha Program, a self-study web-based Semicha program. He is a prolific author of over 50 Sefarim studied by a wide range of readers throughout the world, which is used regularly in Semicha programs around the globe. He is a world renowned Posek, answering questions to a web-based market, and serves as a local Posek, Rav, and Lecturer, in the Tzemach Tzedek community Shul in Tzefas, Israel. His many classes can be heard both from his website, Vimeo and YouTube channel. Students can join live to classes given in the Tzemach Tzedek Shul, through the “בית חבד צפת Chabad Tsfat” YouTube channel.

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