Word had evidently reached the Alter Rebbe that the chassidim of a certain synagogue did not permit a worshiper who would pray at length to lead the services, because some individual there was pressed for time. In this letter of admonition, the Alter Rebbe writes that it is better for this person to even forgo […]

כי על אהבה המסותרת בלב כל ישראל בתולדתם וטבעם, לא שייך ציווי כלל   For regarding the love latent in the heart of all Israel by birth and nature, there can be no command at all, for it already exists.   Rather, the command is that this latent love be revealed; moreover, that it be […]