והנה כל איש ישראל צריך להיות כלול מב׳ בחינות אלו Now, every Jew needs to comprise both these traits: a Jew whose soul derives from Chesed must also incorporate the thrust of Gevurah, and vice versa, ואין לך דבר שאין לו מקום for11 “There is no thing that has not its place.” Both Chesed and […]

והנה כל איש ישראל צריך להיות כלול מב׳ בחינות אלו Now, every Jew needs to comprise both these traits: a Jew whose soul derives from Chesed must also incorporate the thrust of Gevurah, and vice versa, ואין לך דבר שאין לו מקום for11 “There is no thing that has not its place.” Both Chesed and […]

ומה שאמר הכתוב: אברהם אוהבי, ופחד יצחק As for Scripture characterizing him as18 “Abraham who loved Me,” and [in another verse characterizing Isaac as]19 “the Dread of Isaac,” thereby indicating that Abraham’s service was an expression of Chesed and Isaac’s service an expression of Gevurah, which would seem to contradict the earlier statement that Abraham […]

ומה שאמר הכתוב: אברהם אוהבי, ופחד יצחק As for Scripture characterizing him as18 “Abraham who loved Me,” and [in another verse characterizing Isaac as]19 “the Dread of Isaac,” thereby indicating that Abraham’s service was an expression of Chesed and Isaac’s service an expression of Gevurah, which would seem to contradict the earlier statement that Abraham […]

Many of the letters that together constitute Iggeret HaKodesh were written in order to rouse Jewry to contribute generously to tzedakah in general and in particular for the Holy Land. More specifically, the Alter Rebbe strongly encouraged the support of Rabbi Mendele Horodoker and Rabbi Avraham Kalisker and their followers, who had settled there, through […]

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ואחר כך, על ידי תקיעת שופר והתפלות, נמשך אור חדש עליון Afterwards, by means of the sounding of the Shofar and by means of the prayers, a new and superior light is elicited, מבחינה עליונה יותר שבמדריגת חכמה עילאה [a light] of a yet higher rank in the sphere of the Supreme Chochmah, להאיר לארץ […]

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The subject of this letter, the Ten Sefirot of the World of Atzilut and of the other worlds, is a fundament of both Kabbalah and Chassidut. All the worlds are both created and conducted by means of the Sefirot, the emanations by which the various attributes of Divinity become manifest. Thus we find in the […]

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