Likutei
Halakhot on the Shulchan Arukh Orach Chayim
First
Part: Halakhot Hashkamat Haboqer
(Laws of Early Rising
in the Morning)
Halakhah
3
1.
"One should
strengthen himself like a lion to stand up in the morning that he should be the one
to wake up the dawn." In relation to the Torah on “and God turned
the people” [Ex. 13] (LM 62), see there. It is explained there
that there is a difference between [types of] contradictions. For there
is a contradiction whose solution a man could understand. On this is said
(Avot 2) "And know what to
answer" etc. For the truth is that since the Lord, Blessed-be-He,
limited the human intellect in what it can understand, it is a great mitzvah to
sharpen the intellect to understand a thing according to its nature. And
upon this is said, "And know what
to answer an apostate." But
there is a paradox, that it is not possible for the human intellect to
understand the solution on such a contradiction; only in the future to come
will the solution be revealed. It is forbidden for a man to look into
them and whoever relies on his intellect and probes into it -- on this it is
said (Prov. 2) Whoever comes to her
returns not. For in such a paradox it is forbidden to rely on his
intellect, only to stand on faith, and even those paradoxes that have an answer
-- sometimes the paths of intellect are stopped up and one knows not how to
answer, and apostasy is thrown at him etc. And this apostasy is for each
one according to his aspect; one can distinguish between great and small.
For one must serve the Lord with the two wills. And in truth if a man
knew the knowledge in all his heart that the whole world is full of His glory
and the Lord, Blessed-be-He, attends at the time of prayer and listens to the
prayer -- certainly he would pray in great ardor and would be very careful to
direct his words. But because a man does not know this knowledge in all
his heart -- therefore he does not flame up so much and does not take so much
precision etc. And all this is from the
knowledge being hidden, from the aspect of disputes, like (Hosea 10) Their hearts have
become detached [from God], like the contradictions that come through the
paths of wisdom being congested to the point that he cannot answer the apostasy
that is in his heart. And the remedy for
this dispute in the heart is to learn decided halakhah
[Torah laws]. For through this he merits
peace etc. And through this he merits to
annul the contradictions in his heart and merits to pray with a whole heart,
like with all your hearts (b’khol levavcha)) – explanation: with both of your wills
(Berakhot 54) and this is (Ps. 119) I will praise you with uprightness of
hearts (levav), when I shall have learned thy righteous judgments etc., see
there. But the paradoxes that have no
solution – it is forbidden to look into them.
One can only hold himself in faith.
And when he has faith in wholeness, there can be through his eating the
unification of the Holy One, Blessed-be-He, and his Presence etc. For the selection of the food is through
faith. And the main completion and
adornment of faith – i.e. to draw specifically the far people etc. And for this one needs to raise
up the sparks of speech. And then the
speech reverses itself and collects the remaining sparks of holiness from the klipot (spiritual husks and impediments) etc.; and to raise up the sparks of speech, one needs fasting, etc. For through the lust of eating and drinking,
which are the leading lusts when they rise up, God forbid, they draw the speech into Egyptian
exile etc. And also because the root of
all things is in their start. For “all
beginnings are difficult…” etc. And then
when the backs of the holinesses stick together, so that it is impossible for
the klipot to enter in and to suck from them – then
the face of holiness is revealed etc. In
order to take out what they swallowed from their mouths etc. And then all the distant ones turn to the
faith of
2.
And this is
like “One should overcome in the morning like a lion to stand up in the
morning, that he should be the one to awaken the dawn.” For the faith is like Dominion which is
called “dawn.” Like gazelle of the
dawn as is known. Like They are new every morning: great is Your
faithfulness. For this is like “You
went out in the morning” as explained above in the Torah mentioned above. And because of this the faith is called dawn
as mentioned above and therefore everyone must overcome like a lion and make
great effort to stand up in the morning early before the break of dawn. In order to delve in Torah and prayer. And to grow the holy faith. For this is the aspect of “that he should be
to one to wake up the dawn, like (Ps. 57) I will awaken the dawn. I.e. that he should merit via his service
before the light of day to awaken the dawn which is like faith which needs to
be grown and completed until the light of day which is its main time of
elevation and completion like “They are new every morning” etc., like
“You went out in the morning” as mentioned above. And the main completion of the service is to
overcome greatly to stand up each night at midnight and explained in the Holy Zohar and several places due to the great admonition that
whoever the awe of the Lord touches his heart is obligated to arise at midnight
specifically for the main completion of the holy faith is through canceling and
breaking and burning out of his mind two kinds of contradictions and heresies
mentioned above which are the paradoxes that are impossible to bring any answer
or solution to. For about them it is
said whoever comes unto her returns not and one must rely only on faith
alone and as mentioned above. And also
there are paradoxes that are possible to answer etc. And also with these paradoxes sometimes the
paths of intellect are stopped up and it is impossible to answer them. And these difficulties are for each and every
person according to his aspect according to the intellect of each and every
one. And the rectification for this, to
merit to open the mind and to reveal the paths of intellect, is via learning poskim (decided laws) etc. as mentioned
above. And then one merits to peace and
to annul the dispute which are the forces of apostasy and heresy and merits to
know what to answer the apostasy in his heart etc. as mentioned above. And this is why one must overcome and get up
at
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http://nissim.lbox.org/breslev – Nissim’s
Breslev translations
http://breslov.com/library/ -- many Breslov
books online in Hebrew.