Zohar and Tanya

Both texts address divine management (hanhagah) of creation and the role of righteous individuals. Text 1 (Tanya) emphasizes machshava (Divine thought) in creation's inception—God initially conceived the world through strict judgment (din) but tempered it with mercy, manifest through tzaddiqim and miracles in Torah. Text 2 (Zohar) emphasizes the righteous person's knowledge (yoda'at) of God's ways and how the Holy One establishes His word through them, with focus on providential coordination from creation's beginning. The Tanya stresses the conceptual/intentional shift in divine planning; the Zohar stresses the righteous person's comprehension enabling divine activity. Both accept righteous people as channels of hanhagah, but differ in emphasis: Tanya on the divine thought process itself, Zohar on the tzaddik's conscious participation through knowledge.