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Like most of the components of Iggeret HaKodesh, this pastoral letter too was addressed to the chassidic community as a whole. Why, then, echoing the words first addressed to Daniel (“To enlighten you with understanding”), 1 does

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The Alter Rebbe now goes on to explain how a Jew can achieve a total lack of yearning for the physicality of things, even things that are essential. According to the explanation that follows, it will be seen that one can go beyond this, and even not be pained by their absence. Indeed, this equanimity […]

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וכשיתבונן האדם בעומק הבנתוNow when a man will contemplate in the depths of his understandingויצייר בדעתו הווייתו יש מאין בכל רגע ורגע ממשand will

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ומי שמתעצב ומתאונןBut he who is grieved and lamentsמראה בעצמו 29 that

“And [the reward for] the act of tzedakah will be peace, and [the reward for] the service of tzedakah [will be] quietness and surety forever.”1

“And [the reward for] the act of tzedakah will be peace, and [the reward for] the service of tzedakah [will be] quietness and surety forever.”1