Life is a mess. You have a great moment and a second later you loose it. You spent a year saving up fir the vacation; after just a few hours of pleasure you managed to get into a fight with you kid and destroy everything you worked for.
So people created art. If you think about it, it's a great invention. For every form of art is defined with a beginning and an end. It captures a particular feeling or story; once captured its; complete, nothing can change it.
We yearn to create something outside ourselves. We are not satisfied by who we are inwardly, we strive to be able to create something we can put on the shelf. Something that our next bad mood won't be able to take away.
The Tanya teaches that every Mitzvah we perform is a creation of a piece of art. “this unity (created by the Mitzvah) is eternal in heaven”; there is a place that the good in our lives is captured and is everlasting, future negativity can't detract from its beauty.
The artist hangs his creation on the wall, then evolves to discover that he must place the art in his heart. Filling his life with everlasting beautiful moments.
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