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 By Rabbi M. M. Shneersohn (Tzemach Tzedek); Translated by Eliyahu Touger Saying the Unsayable “What constitutes the difference between Chassidus and the works of medieval Jewish philosophy (Chakirah) that preceded it?” R. Yechezkel Feigin, the personal secretary of the Previous Rebbe , Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn , and a mashpia in the Tomchei Temimim Yeshivah , grappled with that question in one of his articles in the chassidic journal HaTamim . 1 He explains that the Jewish philosophers built the logical structures that characterize their works on the foundation of mortal reason. 2 Thus even after they reached the fundamentals of faith, their explanations were dimmed by the trappings of mortal thought and the full power of Divine light could not be felt. Chassidus , by contrast, seeks to arouse the fundamental point of faith that stems from the essential G‑