Thursday Iyar 8 5703, 23rd day of the Omer **
Torah Lessons (5703)	Chumash: Emor, Chamishi with Rashi. Tehillim: 44-48. Tanya: Therefore did Shlomon (p. 245)...during their lifetime.

An emissary is one with his sender.

This concept is similar to that of an angel acting as a Divine emissary, when he is actually called by G-d's name.

If this is so with an angel it is certainly true [1] of the soul; in fact with the soul the quality of this oneness is of a higher order, as explained elsewhere. [2]

Now chassidim are emissaries of the Rebbe, the Alter Rebbe.

So if the Chassid actively discharges his mission, he is bound up with his Rebbe, bound up in his entire being - there walks a Chassid, there eats a Chassid, there sleeps a Chassid.

   

Notes:

1. (Back to text) See Iyar 6.

2. (Back to text) See Tamuz 10.

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Day Two of week 4

Gevurah of Netzach

Examine the discipline of your endurance. Endurance must be directed toward productive goals and expressed in a constructive manner. Is my endurance and determination focused to help cultivate good habits and break bad ones? Or is it the other way around? Does my endurance come from strength or weakness? Does it come out of deep conviction or out of defensiveness? Am I ever tenacious out of stubbornness and an unwillingness to acknowledge errors? Am I invested in certain decisions and not prepared to review them? Do I use my endurance against itself by being tenacious in my lack of determination?

Exercise for the day: Break one bad habit today.

From:

A Spiritual Guide to the counting of the Omer

Forty-Nine Steps to Personal Refinement

The Forty-Nine Days of Sefirah

by Simon Jacobson

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