“running and returning” (cf. Ezekiel 1:14) [i.e., repeatedly entering and leaving this state].

the enormous favor God is doing for him through this suffering.

Therefore, a person who needs other people for something finds it very difficult to pray in public, since in public, he is overcome by all kinds of insincerity and deceptions that are glazed over with truth.

Repentance primarily depends on the Torah. Specifically, when a person studies Torah, laboring in it until he merits to deduce other things from the things he has learned and to develop new Torah ideas for the sake of Heaven-this is complete repentance.

It is strictly forbidden to study philosophical works. This is because there are many philosophical dilemmas deriving from the Vacated Space which are absolutely impossible to resolve (see more in this lesson in Likutey Moharan). Only in the future will the answers to these questions be revealed, since then the mystery of how God “withdrew” or “con

In this world, however, it is simply impossible to resolve these questions on any intellectual level, and anyone who delves into these branches of study will sink and be lost there, since about such people it is written, “All those who come to her will not return” (Proverbs 2:19). This is because it is impossible to find God there [in these sorts o

is no differentiation at all-but rather, “God (YHVH) is the Lord (ELoHIM)” and everything is good. [This refers to God’s

goal. For this is an important principle: there is no barrier in the world that a person cannot break. He must only have a very strong longing and desire commensurate with the importance of his goal.

Only the Jewish people, through their faith, transcend all the philosophical inquiries and paradoxes that are in the world, because they believe in God and in His holy Torah without any inquiry or logic at all, but rather, with perfect faith.