The three hundred and first "cheder" in the palace of Hayom Yom.
Friday, 24 Elul 5703.
Torah lessons: Chumash, Nitzavim-Vayelech, Shishi, with Rashi's commentary.
Tehillim, on the 24th of the month, one recites from chapter 113 through chapter 118 inclusive. And the three additional chapters during the month of Elul — on this day one recites 70, 71 and 72.
Tanya: On this day we conclude Iggeret 18 of Iggeret HaKodesh. The lesson begins on page 252 with the words "vehashenit," and ends at the conclusion of the letter with the word "deihu."
The daily teaching is brief, and is written in Yiddish. In the source citation it is noted that it is from a sichah of the Rebbe Rayatz from Shabbos Parshas Chukas of the year 5700. Although the sichah appears in the seforim before us, this particular content from the sichah was not printed there.
Let us read the wording of the teaching and explain it. In translation from the original: "In earlier times, every saying one heard was Torah, and every sight one witnessed was a directive in avodah and a guidance".
The quotation does not specify which saying is being discussed, nor from whom it was heard, nor about whom this conduct was observed — the matter is presented as something standing on its own. However, I found a letter from the Rebbe Rayatz dated 25 Tishrei 5701, in which this very idea appears with the addition of several words. The letter was written to a chassid by the name of R' Shaul Ber Zislin.
The Rebbe Rayatz strongly urges him to write down his memories — everything he remembers from the time he arrived at the Tomchei Temimim yeshivah: whom he met, what the mashpi'im told him, what happened with his fellow students — that he should detail all of his recollections.
And thus the Rebbe Rayatz writes to him: "This matter" — to write memoirs — "is something each and every one of Anash, may they live, should have done. Whoever was by a Rebbe and was educated among Chassidim, for in truth," and then comes a sentence resembling the daily teaching: "indeed every gesture that they saw by a Rebbe, and every saying that they heard from a Chassid, has the power to literally give life." Here the Rebbe Rayatz distinguishes between what they saw by the Rebbe and what they heard from a Chassid.
And in conclusion the Rebbe Rayatz writes something interesting: "As we see tangibly that this is a Yom Tov for me." Thus the Rebbe Rayatz testifies about himself — when he hears a story from a chassid who was by a Rebbe, or from a chassidic farbrengen, when he hears a new saying or someone relating something, that day is considered by him a Yom Tov and a festive day. To what degree the Rebbe Rayatz cherishes every single thing. And this is the content of the daily teaching: just as in the past they knew how to cherish every single thing, so too to awaken us as well to relate in the same measure to every saying and to everything we see.