Tanya/ Iggeres Ha’Kodesh - The Holy Epistle

FOOTNOTES

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44. Note by the Rebbe: “A paraphrase of Ecclesiastes 2:17."

45. Note by the Rebbe: “See commentary of Rashi on Yitro, [Exodus] 19:22 [which refers to sacrifices]-and the prayers were ordained in place of the offerings [Berachot 26b]."

46. Note by the Rebbe: “Bereishit Rabbah, sec. 49; commentary of Rashi on the verse [referred to above]."

47. Avot 3:2.

48. Kiddushin 31a.

49. Note by the Rebbe: “See Etz Chaim, Shaar Hasheimot, ch. 7; Yahel Or, p. 573 ff."

50. Sotah 5a.

51. Song of Songs 7:6.

53. Note by the Rebbe: “Cf. beginning of ch. 7 of Iggeret Hateshuvah." There the Rebbe explains: “‘Gutters’ refers to the various channels and gutters of the mind through which thoughts, like gushing currents, rush fleetingly. Thus, even transient evil thoughts that one harbors ephemerally can bind and shackle the King; they can exile the flow of vitality emanating from G‑d."

53. Addenda to Tikkunei Zohar 6.

54. Cf. Zohar II, 7a.

55. Isaiah 52:2.

56. III, 75b.