Wednesday Tamuz 18 5703
Torah Lessons (5703)	Chumash: Pinchas, Revi'i with Rashi. Tehillim: 88-89. Tanya: Ch. 4. However, (p. 355)...days and years! (p. 355).

The Alter Rebbe said of R. Moshe Vilenker:[1]

"Moshe has Mochin D'Gadlut, magnitude of intellect[2] and in his ten years of toil[3], he has attained through his labors a powerful, capacious, wide-ranging intellectuality - (Mochin Rechavim)."[4]

For three years R. Moshe Vilenker prepared himself for Yechidus with the Alter Rebbe. Afterwards he remained in Lyozna for seven years to translate the Yechidus into actual Avoda.

   

Notes:

1. (Back to text) A giant among the early Chassidim.

2. (Back to text) A mind capable of integrating even opposing concepts.

3. (Back to text) "Toil" and "labor," refer to enormous efforts in inner spiritual self-improvement.

4. (Back to text) The term Mochin Rechavim, lit. "broad intellect," defies translation. It does NOT refer to Reb Moshe's broad spectrum of knowledge or to "broadmindedness"; rather, it describes the nature (intense, powerful), absorptive ability (capacious), and breadth (wide-ranging) of his intellectuality - his faculty of intelligence.