Lessons in Derech Mitzvosecha, Publisher's Foreword to Volume 1

 Lessons in Derech Mitzvosecha, Publisher's Foreword to Volume 1




Publisher's Foreword to Volume 1

FOOTNOTES
1.

See HaTamim, pp. 490-491.

2.

By making this statement, he was not discounting the influence of ruach hakodesh, Divine inspiration. Nevertheless, the starting point of their work was mortal logic and that endowed it with its fundamental character.

3.

Cf. the passage beginning Pasach EliyahuTikkunei Zohar, Introduction II (p. 17a).

4.

Sefer HaIkarim, Discourse II, the conclusion of ch. 30

5.

R. Shalom DovBer Schneersohn, the fifth Lubavitcher Rebbe.

6.

See Sefer HaMaamarim Melukat, Vol. II, p. 12.

7.

Shabbos 105a, as explained in Likkutei Torah, Bamidbar, p. 48d.

8.

See Inyana Shel Toras HaChassidus (On the Essence of Chassidus, Kehot Publication Society, Brooklyn, NY 2003), sec. 2.

9.

Amos 8:11.

10.

The Rebbe’s Foreword to the 5713 (1953) edition states that the text was composed between the years 5574-5588 (1814-1828). The preliminary drafts of certain maamarim were, however, written during the lifetime of the Alter Rebbe, who passed away in 5573 (1812), when the Tzemach Tzedek was 23 years old. See the Introduction to the first printing, printed as an addendum to Derech Mitzvosecha.

11.

See the Rebbe’s Igros Kodesh, Vol. IV, p. 484, Vol. V, p. 89, Vol. XIII, p. 231, Vol. XIV, p. 108.

12.

Op. cit., Vol. XV, p. 292.

13.

The Baal Shem Tov’s letter, printed at the beginning of Kesser Shem Tov.

14.

Yirmeyahu 31:33.


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