Daily Tanya Thursday 8th Shevat: Chapter 21 Part 2 – The unity of G-d’s speech within Him

• The unity of G-d’s speech within Him: The above example of how man’s speech is united within him prior to it being spoken applies also regarding G-d, however by G-d it applies even after the words are spoken. The thought and speech of G-d is united with His essence in an absolute unity even after His words of speech have been expressed within the creation of the worlds. In fact, His speech is united with Him after it was spoken to the same extent that it was united with Him prior to it being spoken and there is no change at all in front of G-d regarding this matter.

3. The change is only in the eyes of the creations:

• It is only in the eyes of the creations who receive the Divine energy from G-d’s speech that a change is felt from before the words were spoken to afterwards.
• The speech of G-d entails contractions and dilution of the original Divine energy: The words of speech of G-d affects that the Divine energy be able to become invested within the creations to enliven them. To do so, the energy must go through a chain descent from level to level, which incorporates many contractions of different qualities and quantities, until finally the creations are able to receive this diluted Divine energy in order to be created and not be nullified in their existence to a revelation of G-d that is greater than their capacity.
• The contractions are a concealment of the original Divine energy: All of the contractions are different forms of concealment of the original Divine energy. Their function is to conceal and mask the light and energy that derives from G-d’s speech so that it not be revealed in its full intensity, which the creations would not be capable of receiving. [Meaning, that not only is the Divine revelation that is expressed through G-d’s speech already in a contracted form having passed through various levels of concealment, but furthermore, this Divine speech itself must go through further contractions, so the creations are able to receive it.]

5.      Why creations feel themselves, and G-d’s speech, as separate entities:

• It is due to the above contractions and concealment of the Divine energy both within G-d’s speech and after it is spoken, that creations feel that the Divine light and energy of G-d’s speech that is invested within them, is a separate entity from Him, and is similar to the speech of man which although is derived from the soul of the man is nonetheless separated from the soul once it is spoken. [This mistaken feeling that G-d’s speech is separate from Him then causes the creations to feel themselves as separate entities from G-d.]

3.      To Hashem everything is nullified:

• In truth, before G-d, the contractions and concealments which His Divine energy and speech passes through, do not conceal before Him at all, as to Him darkness is like light.
• The contractions themselves come from G-d: The reason the contractions do not conceal before G-d is because the contractions and garments placed on the Divine energy are themselves not separate from G-d, G-d forbid, and is rather similar to the shell of a snail which is made from its own body. Accordingly, before G-d the contractions are as if they do not exist. [Accordingly, it is understood that since the contractions do not exist from G-d’s perspective, then the creations also truly do not exist from G-d’s perspective, as they are truly nullified to the Divine energy and light that is within them, and they are not considered separate entities at all from His essence. It is only from the perspective of the creations that they feel that they exist. Accordingly, it ends up that G-d is the only existence even after the creation.]