Tanya Notes

PEREK CHOF ALEF
When a person speaks words the words become their own thing, separate from him & his 10 koichos.
But with Hashem it never becomes separate because everything is Hashem! Therefore Hashem’s speech is not like our speech!
Q: If our dibbur is not like Hashem’s dibbur, then why do we use that term at all? What’s the similarity?
A: just like the dibbur of a person reveals something that was concealed in a person, Hashem’s speech reveals his infinite light to create worlds etc. This dibbur is the 10 maamaros that the world was created with – and all of tanach.


we’re in the middle of trying to figure out whether we exist ;-)
gave the mashal of speech – we are Hashem’s words
by Hashem His words are so unified with Him it’s like words that are still in potential in a person, you haven’t even had the emotions enter your brain yet so you can form words. The more emotional a thing is the more you can connect to the idea but the less you can express it in words.
First you know about something, then you desire it, then it goes back up to your brain to figure out how to get it, put it in words, etc.
Even after the words ‘came out’ from Hashem they’re still perfectly united with Him.

Kula kamei Klo chashiv – KLO – LIKE it’s not chashiv – the would still does exist, but it’s so close to noghitn
Hashem never changes – it’s only how it looks to us – because Hashem has to create through seder hishtalshelus, etc – so we won’t be completely batul to Him.
Ilah V’alul – cause & effect
The initial creation is ‘yesh m’ayin’ – so huge, it’s too much for us – Hashem then has to make a tzimtzum, etc.
All the tzimtzumim are to conceal Hashem’s light so it shouldn’t reveal itself in such an intense way that we won’t be able to get it. We see it and of course, it’s separate from Hashem! Of course it came from Hashem, but now it’s separate like dibbur – chas veshalom – that’s how we perceive it but really the world is one with Hashem – ain od milvado.
“even darkness will not ‘blind’ You, Hashem” a tzimtzum and levushim do not change anything in Hashem’s perspective.
A shell is usually separate from the thing – the shell protects the thing – but a turtle is unique, the shell is part of the animal.
even all these garments on Hashem – they’re One with him, part of Him – not only are they not separate from Him, they are Hashem!

If there’s no outside reality other than G-d, then how can we think are reality outside of Hashem?
We shouldn’t really feel our own existence – our ego –
This dibbur of Hashem had to go through so many tzimtzumim