Thursday | Elul 16 | 5703 | Torah lessons: | Chumash: Tavo, Chamishi with Rashi. | Tehillim: 79-82. Also 46-48. | Tanya: Now, as regards (p. 469) ...as will be explained). (p. 473). | |
The Alter Rebbe interpreted the statement, "Whoever saves a single person of (the people) Israel is as though he saved an entire world1": One must perceive a Jew as he stands in the primordial thought of Adam Kadmon. There, each soul stands with all the generations destined to descend from it until the coming of Mashiach, the righteous Redeemer. When one does a favor to an individual, it is a favor to all those souls until the end of all generations.