Video is also available – click to open The Alter Rebbe explained at the conclusion of the previous chapter that through teshuvah ila’ah, the higher level of repentance, the soul is totally cleansed and purified. It then ascends and cleaves to G‑d with the same degree of unity that it enjoyed before it descended into […]
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Chapter 09 – Part 3
Video is also available – click to open והנה עיקר האהבה היא אתדבקות רוחא ברוחא Ahavah, the love of G‑d, is primarily the cleaving of spirit to Spirit,3 כמו שכתוב: ישקני מנשיקות פיהו וגו’ כנודע as the verse expresses it,4 “He kisses me with the kisses of his mouth….” A physical kiss unites the inner […]
Chapter 09 – Part 4
Video is also available – click to open ולפי שפגם הברית בהוצאת זרע לבטלה Since the violation of the covenant through wasteful emission, ואין צריך לומר בעריות, או שאר איסורי ביאה דאורייתא או דרבנן to say nothing of incestuous relations, or other unions prohibited by the Torah or the Sages (כי חמורים דברי סופרים וכו’) […]
Chapter 10 – Part 1
Video is also available – click to open The theme of the previous chapter was teshuvah ila’ah and how it finds expression in the “cleaving of spirit to Spirit” — through Torah study, tzedakah and acts of lovingkindness. והנה תשובה עילאה זו, דאתדבקותא דרוחא ברוחא על ידי תורה וגמילות חסדים This higher level of teshuvah, […]
Chapter 10 – Part 2
Video is also available – click to open וכן לקיים כל המצות He must also perform all the mitzvot, כמו שכתוב: אשר קדשנו במצותיו as it is written,9 “He has sanctified us with His commandments.” כמו הרי את מקודשת לי This [sanctification] has the same sense as in the phrase,10 […]
Chapter 11 – Part 1
Video is also available – click to open The Alter Rebbe stated in the previous chapter that since prayer is an expression of teshuvah ila’ah, the higher level of return, it must be preceded by the humility and contrition of teshuvah tata’ah, the lower level of return. This is attained by spiritual stocktaking and by […]
Chapter 11 – Part 2
Video is also available – click to open בלי שום ספק וספק ספיקא בעולם [The worshiper offers supplications such as the above] without the faintest vestige of doubt. וכמו שאנו מברכין בכל תפלת שמונה עשרה: תיכף שמבקשים סלח לנו כו’, ברוך אתה ה’ חנון המרבה לסלוח For this reason, in every Shemoneh Esreh, the moment […]
Chapter 11 – Part 3
Video is also available – click to open Now if mere mortals are also expected to forgive instantly, what kind of praise is it that we offer the Infinite One in Shemoneh Esreh (the Amidah) by ascribing a like attribute to Him? This is the question that the Alter Rebbe now anticipates: ומה שמשבחים ומברכים […]
Chapter 11 – Part 4
וכל החטאים שמתוודים בעל חטא מדי שנה, אף שחזר ועבר עליהם As to all the sins for which we confess in the Al Chet annually, though repeatedly violated, חוזר ומתודה עליהם ביום הכפורים בשנה הבאה, וכן לעולם we again confess for them on Yom Kippur in the coming year, and so on always. ובכל שנה […]
Chapter 11 – Part 5
Video is also available – click to open ומה שכתוב: וחטאתי נגדי תמיד As to the verse that says,20 “My sin is always before me,” אין המכוון להיות תמיד עצב נבזה, חס ושלום this does not imply that one ought to be constantly melancholy and humiliated, G‑d forbid, דהא כתיב בתריה: תשמיעני ששון ושמחה וגו’ […]
