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I heard on July 25, 1944, during a festive meal for the completion of part of The Zohar<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Regarding things that come from the heart, enter the heart. Hence, why do we see that even if things have already entered the heart, one still falls from his degree?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The thing is that when one hears the words of Torah from his teacher, he immediately agrees with his teacher and resolves to observe the words of his teacher with his heart and soul. But afterward, when he comes out to the world, he sees, covets, and is infected by the multitude of desires roaming the world. Then, he and his mind, his heart, and his will are annulled before the majority.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As long as he has no power to sentence the world to the side of merit, they subdue him, he mingles with their desires, and he is led like sheep to the slaughter. He has no choice; he is compelled to think, want, crave, and demand everything that the majority demands. Then he chooses their foreign thoughts and their loathsome lusts and desires, which are alien to the spirit of the Torah. In that state, he has no strength to subdue the majority.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Instead, there is only one counsel then: to cling to his teacher and to the books. This is called \u201cFrom the mouth of books and from the mouth of authors.\u201d Only by clinging to them can he change his mind and will for the better. However, witty arguments will not help him change his mind, but only the remedy of Dvekut<\/em> [adhesion], for this is a wondrous cure, as the Dvekut<\/em> reforms him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Only while one is inside Kedusha<\/em> [holiness] can one argue with oneself and indulge in clever polemics, that the mind necessitates that he should always walk on the path of the Creator. However, one should know that even when he is wise and certain that he can already use this wit to defeat the Sitra Achra<\/em>[other side], he must engrave in his mind that all this is worthless, that this is not a weapon that can win the war against the inclination, for all these concepts are but a consequence he has attained after the aforementioned Dvekut<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In other words, all the concepts upon which he builds his building, saying one must always follow in the path of the Creator, is founded in Dvekut<\/em> with his teacher. Thus, if he loses the foundation, all the concepts are powerless since they will now be lacking the foundation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hence, one must not rely on one\u2019s own mind, but adhere once more to books and to authors, for only this can help him, and no wit or intellect, as there is no vitality in them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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