Tanya Chapter 24 - Being Human Is Where Holiness Does Happen
By Sori Magid: I grew up taking in black-and-white messaging— either I was good or I was failing. Either I was holy or I was too human. Either I was strong or I was broken by struggle. Either I was close to God or I had pushed myself away. There was no room for trembling, for confusion, for the slow and sacred work of becoming. So I tried to be perfect. Quiet. Put together. Needing nothing. But perfection cannot love. Perfection cannot choose. Perfection cannot return. Then today a teaching came again— old words, ancient ink, something about distance, about choices, about the ache of turning away. At first I braced myself for the old blade. But it did not cut. It opened. And suddenly I heard: Not that I am ruined, but that I matter. Not that struggle makes me filthy, but that my choices are powerful. Not that being human is failure, but that being human is where holiness happens. The trembling hand that still gives. The anxious heart that still prays. The tired mother who softens her v...