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Tania 17 Nisan.

Book of secondary

Chapter forty-one

וְהִנֵּה, בַּהֲכָנָה זוֹ שֶׁל מְסִירַת נַפְשׁוֹ לַה ',

And with such preparation [consisting in] giving the soul to the Almighty

When he is inwardly prepared for the fact that his study of the Torah and prayers will be associated with his complete and real self-denial, the same as when the soul parted with the body.

יַתְחִיל בִּרְכוֹת הַשַּׁחַר "בָּרוּךְ אַתָּה כוּ '".

a person will begin to pronounce morning blessings: "Blessed are you, etc."

Morning blessings, birkot a-shahar, is the first stage of spiritual prayer work.

וְכֵן בַּהֲכָנָה זוֹ יַתְחִיל לִלְמֹד שִׁעוּר קָבוּעַ מִיָּד אַחַר הַתְּפִלָּה.

With the same preparation, he will begin the daily study of the Torah immediately after prayer,

After all, the rule “From the house of prayer to the house of doctrine”, i.e. immediately after prayer, a person is obliged to learn his lesson from the Torah. Therefore, it is also necessary to approach this study with the previous intention that with this combination with the letters of the Torah we transfer the soul into the possession of the Almighty.

וְכֵן בְּאֶמְצַע הַיּוֹם, קֹדֶם שֶׁיַּתְחִיל לִלְמֹד צְרִיכָה הֲכָנָה זוֹ לְפָחוֹת,

and also in the middle of the day, before he begins the study of the Torah, there must be at least such preparation,

Need to approach learning with the same attitude.

כַּנּוֹדָע שֶׁעִקַּר הַהֲכָנָה לִשְׁמָהּ לְעַכֵּב הוּא בִּתְחִלַּת הַלִּמּוּד בַּבֵּינֹונִים

As you know, the preparation for studying the Torah for its own sake, without which the obligation to study the Torah cannot be fulfilled, should be with the middle ones mainly at the beginning of classes.

Our sages said: "A man should say goodbye to a friend only with the words of the Torah." The Baal Shem Tov comments on these words as follows: the friend of man is none other than the Most High. When is it allowed to say goodbye to Him? When the mind must go deeper into the study of the Fa. But all the rest of the time a person should be constantly turning his thoughts to Him. It is emphasized: among the "average", for the righteous and during the study of the most complex issues of the Torah are able to feel great love, as described in chap. 13. And only the "average" should necessarily focus on the Almighty, but only at the beginning of the class.

וּכְמוֹ בְּגֵט וְסֵפֶר תֹּורָה, שֶׁצְּרִיכִים לִשְׁמָהּ לְעַכֵּב,

This is similar to preparing a scribe before writing a draft document [geth] or a Torah scroll, because writing them should be for the sake of the Torah or the commandment, without which the document is invalid and the scroll is unusable,

But at the same time -

וְדַיּוֹ שֶׁיֹּאמַר בִּתְחִלַּת הַכְּתִיבָה "הֲרֵינִי כּוֹתֵב לְשֵׁם קְדֻשַּׁת סֵפֶר תֹּורָה", אוֹ "לִשְׁמוֹ" וְ"לִשְׁמָהּ "כוּ '.

and to accomplish this, it is enough for the scribe to say, beginning to write: "I am writing for the sake of the holiness of the Torah scroll" or "for such-and-such and such and such." [when writing geth].

Similarly, for the “average” (“Beynoni”), it is enough to think only at the beginning of the lesson that with this study he surrenders himself to the Almighty with his soul.

וּכְשֶׁלּוֹמֵד שָׁעוֹת הַרְבֵּה רְצוּפוֹת יֵשׁ לוֹ לְהִתְבּוֹנֵן בַּהֲכָנָה זוֹ הַנִּזְכֶּרֶת לְעִיל בְּכָל שָׁעָה וְשָׁעָה עַל כָּל פָּנִים,

And when a person learns the Torah for many hours, he must [renew] such preparation at least every hour.

Those. every hour he should think about what he is studying for.

כִּי בְּכָל שָׁעָה וְשָׁעָה הִיא הַמְשָׁכָה אַחֶרֶת מֵעוֹלָמוֹת עֶלְיוֹנִים לְהַחֲיוֹת הַתַּחְתּוֹנִים וְהַמְשָׁכַת הַחַיּוֹת שֶׁבְּשָׁעָה שֶׁלְּפָנֶיהָוְקת

For every hour - a different flow [of life force] in the upper worlds to revitalize the lower ones, and the flow of life force [which was drawn from the upper worlds] in the past hour, returns to its source

[בְּסוֹד "רָצוֹא וָשׁוֹב" שֶׁבְּסֵפֶר יְצִירָה],

(by virtue of the mystery of rzo ve-shov, which is mentioned in the book "Sepher Yetzirah")

The divine power that sustains life in the world influences on the principle of "rzo ve-sov", "rush and return." Rzo is a striving upward towards the Almighty, and a seam is a returning downward, for it is below that the fulfillment of His desire is possible. Divine power is attracted to the world and then returns back to its source in the upper worlds. Every hour, the life force of Gd that brought the world to life the whole previous hour returns to its source. Moreover, this life force is not returning alone, but -

עִם כָּל הַתּוֹרָה וּמַעֲשִׂים טוֹבִים שֶׁל הַתַּחְתּוֹנִים,

along with all the study of the Torah and the good deeds of the people below

that happened during this hour.

כִּי בְּכָל שָׁעָה שׁוֹלֵט צֵרוּף אֶחָד מִי"ב צֵרוּפֵי שֵׁם הֲוָיָ"ה בָּרוּךְ הוּא בְּי"ב שְׁעוֹת הַיּוֹם, וְצֵרוּפֵי שֵׁם אֲדֹנָ"י בַּלַּיְלָ

For in each hour one combination of letters from twelve combinations of letters of the name Avaye reigns, He is blessed for twelve day hours and combinations of letters of the name Ado-nai during the night, as is known [See Tania, Part 2, Ch. 1].

Since another “vitality” shines into the world every hour, the intention of studying the Torah “In the Name of the Almighty” must be renewed in itself every hour.

Below, Alter Rebbe will explain that although studying the Torah, obeying the commandments and serving the moth