Shabbat Menachem Av 6 5703
Torah Lessons (5703)	Chumash: Devarim, Shevi'i with Rashi. Tehillim: 35-38. Tanya: Ch. 12. The reason for (p. 385)...will discover good. (p.387).

The Alter Rebbe on his return from (his arrest in) Petersburg said a Maamar for the Mitteler Rebbe, consisting in all of but a few lines:

Raise your hands in holiness and bless Havayeh [1] (G-d). G-d bless you from Zion, Maker of heaven and earth. [2]

"Raise your hands in holiness" - refers to the elevation of the emotive traits to the intellect, and the illumination of the emotive traits by the intellect. *

"And bless [3] Havayeh" - thereby eliciting the Supernal Name Havayeh, [4] the effect being...

"G-d bless you from Zion" - the Name Havayeh will be drawn forth from the essence of the soul,

"Maker of heaven and earth" - and this maintains the existence of the worlds. *

   

Notes:

1. (Back to text) The Tetragrammaton (four-letter ineffable name of G-d) is referred to in Chassidus as Havayeh, roughly, "the Name of Being."

2. (Back to text) Tehillim 134:2,3.

3. (Back to text) The Hebrew word of blessing, B'racha, frequently connotes drawing forth or eliciting supernal response.

4. (Back to text) Sheim Havayeh di'L'eila.

   * See Supplementary Footnotes, p. 128.