Tuesday Menachem Av 23 5703
Torah Lessons (5703)	Chumash: Re'ei, Shlishi with Rashi. Tehillim: 108-112. Tanya: VII. "Happy are we (p. 425)...cause and effect... (p. 427).

In the winter of 5652 (1891-2), when my father taught me in Tanya, "The second soul in Israel is actually part of G-d above," [1] he explained: "that the connotations of the words `above' and `actually' are contradictory.

`Above' indicates the most spiritual of spiritual levels, while `actually' [2] describes the most material of material things."

He explained: "that this is the unique quality of the `second soul,' that though it is the epitome of the spiritual it has an effect upon the most material of materiality."

   

Notes:

1. (Back to text) Tanya Ch. 2.

2. (Back to text) In Hebrew, Mamash, associated with "tangible," "palpable," the lowly level of the material experienced by tactile sensation.