This [Sefirah of Malchut] animates all the created beings that are in all the upper and lower Heichalot, which are all subject to counting and reckoning (cheshbon),

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Well known at the gates1 The previous Epistle opened with the phrase, “It is well known…,”

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Well known at the gates1 The previous Epistle opened with the phrase, “It is well known…,”

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This is a reasoned message of encouragement in which the Alter Rebbe urges his chassidim not to reduce their fixed annual commitment to charity for the Holy Land,

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The Alter Rebbe now focuses on the distinctive quality inherent in the halachot of the Oral Torah.

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The Alter Rebbe now focuses on the distinctive quality inherent in the halachot of the Oral Torah.

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This is the meaning of the statement in the sacred Zohar, Parshat Pekudei (p. 229b), that “the good deeds (i.e., the mitzvot) which man does, elicit a garment from the light of the Supernal Splendor…

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This is the meaning of the statement in the sacred Zohar, Parshat Pekudei (p. 229b), that “the good deeds (i.e., the mitzvot) which man does, elicit a garment from the light of the Supernal Splendor…

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Now, in the soul of man there is a faculty for pleasure: [the soul] takes pleasure in what it finds pleasurable,31as in the conception of a new insight, or the like.

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Now the Supernal Will is termed and referred to by the Kabbalists40 as Keter Elyon [“the Supreme Crown”]. In it there are 620 pillars of light,41 620 being the numerical equivalent of the Hebrew word Keter.

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