Kabbalah Library

I heard after Shabbat BeShalach, January 24, 1948

All the work is only where there are two ways, as it is written, “And he shall live by them, and he shall not die by them. And the issue of ‘shall die and not breach’ applies only to three Mitzvot [commandments]: idolatry, bloodshed, and incest.” And yet, we find that the first Hassidim would give their lives over [commandments] to-do.

And we should know that all the work and the labor are only when one should observe the Torah. At that time, one feels the heavy load that the body does not agree to the conditions of the Torah. But when a person is rewarded, and the Torah guards him, no heaviness is sensed in the work of the Creator since the Torah guards a person, as it is written, “One’s soul shall teach him.”