Daily Tanya

To develop a love in G-d where you are delighted as you would be with sweet delights, with a great and immense joy and yearning for g- is not in your hands alone. You need to develop "the terrain" being your best, and G-d will do the rest.

";Keser" (Lit. crown) is a euphemism for an encompassing transcendent energy of G-d, which is not normally compatible with the finite and limited nature of the world. This Divine energy will be palpable in Messianic times.

G-d responds the same way we behave to others.

One should not be so exacting one's giving, but go beyond limitation. This elicits a parallel Divine compassion toward us- something we are all in need of.

G-d blessed you. But another person's staples to survive come before your luxuries. Be a giver in a time of need.

Your mind is powerful! Your emotions are born out of what you comprehend and connect to. Think about G-d!

Your pristine G-dly soul years for a relationship with G-d alone. This soul will allow you to negate all obstacles and serve G-d with total dedication.

The quality of mercy is a "beautiful" attribute to have. It allows you to give with discipline. Your kindness will be on display, while you temper it with the perfect amount of constraint.

Although ashes are from wood, they have lost (almost) all comparison to their original form. So too, is the distance from (Abraham's) love of G-d- a characteristic of the Divine soul- and it's Source i,e, G-dly love. Although our capacity to love G-d is a derivative of G-dly love, it is so vastly reduced in its human expression.

Since our sous originate from the Divine and mirror It, we can extrapolate from our own soul-structure a miniscule perception of The Divine structure. Nonetheless, despite the parallels, they are also incomparably distant from one another.

Every year on Rosh HaShana there is a newer and more sublime Divine energy than the previous year, that flows into creation. It becomes manifest by virtue of our good deeds and Teshuva.

The Holy Land of Israel is positioned to receive Divine energy from its Supernal counterpart. This flow is renewed more generally every Rosh Hashana, and particularly each day. It becomes manifest by virtue of our Teshuvah.

G-d's abundant kindness is in store, not only for the individual whose character is likewise expansive, but also for the G-d fearing, who is more introverted.

Regardless of your personality type, divine service demands that you leave that comfort zone. Serve G-d with all your being.

While there exist two very distinct soul-character types- one more introverted, discreet and contained, the other extraverted, flagrant, expansive- we should strive for inter-inclusion, incorporating the opposite trait as well. Ultimately, both stem from one G-d, and both can elicit His unlimited benevolence.

During prayer, the light of the spiritual world is in it's full intensity. This crushes the evil, and transforms it into light.

By nature, the People of Israel are charitable. Kindness thus prevails over judgement.

Bringing about peace and harmony throughout creation is elicited by our Tzedaka. The ultimate peace, though, will only be at the End of Days.

Chessed (kindness) is and (outward) downward flow; 'Gevurah' (restraint) is an (inward) upward flow. Naturally they are contrary.

An awareness that everything comes from G-d- to the extent that it makes a person constantly joyous with his lot- causes that "hidden good" should become "revealed good".

Being conscious of one's faith in The Creator, Who is only good, and runs creation continuously, will bring one to a spiritual state of equilibrium, experiencing all occurrences as only goodness, and transforming apparent negative to positive. It also results in transcendence from material pursuit and constant joy in life.

G-d's limitless kindness and compassion are what we need, given our deficient state.

Teshuva happens in the heart. Still, one needs an action based Mitzvah to draw the Divine light earthward. By virtue of one's generosity with the needy, one merits similar behavior from G-d.

The advantage of Torah- study over other Mitzvos, given the two fold unity achieved. The analogy of Torah to food, which nourishes and nurtures one within, and Mitzvos to clothing, which protect and envelop one from the outside.

Torah and Mitzvos observance have certain definitive guidelines because the Torah and Mitzvos have descended in to this world through the G-dly attribute of Gevurah.