” There is this brackets and another brackets in this chapter that the Rebbe is speaking of that which the simplicity of the verse does not speak of Moses connecting the Children of Israel to the Infinite Light. Rather, it seems to be speaking of Moses’ uniting, connecting, and bonding, the Children of Israel among themselves. Being that we are speaking here of the revelation of the Essence of the Soul, thus we are speaking of there where there are no differences among Jews, but where all Jews are one.
“And through the service of Israel (for after this that it was drawn within Israel the Revelation of the Soul through Moses), that also the Revealed Faculties of them (the children of Israel) (the form of the faculties) should be aligned with the Essence of the Soul, through this there is made an advantage and addition in the dimension of the Essence of the Soul which was drawn and revealed within them through Moses ((this ‘advantage and addition’ is what the verse states,) ‘and they shall take to you’), for through this (service of Israel) there is revealed in it (the Essence of the Soul that Moses gave to Israel) its true source that it is sourced within the Essence (of G-d).
” The Rebbe returns to what he was saying concerning the meaning of all the above in the service of man, that it is what brings the “advantage and addition” to Moses, by “there is revealed in it (the Essence of the Soul that Moses gave to Israel) its true source that it is sourced within the Essence (of G-d)”.
The Rebbe now has another bracket that speaks of the “connecting the Children of Israel within themselves”: “[ And to point out, that through this (that there is the addition in the level of Moses, that there is revealed the true source and dimension of the Essence of the Soul) there is added on as well in the unity of Israel. For the unity of Israel that is through the Essence of the Soul (that was given to them by Moses by the ‘And you shall connect…’) which is revealed within them as an additional matter to their Beingness. And therefore, this unity is through ‘Making their soul primary, and their body superfluous’61.
” Tanya explains that the way to achieve, “Love your fellow as yourself” is achieved through one “Making their soul primary, and their body superfluous”. For the body is where there exists differences among everyone. However, the soul of each and every Jew are “as identical twins”. However, this that within “the body is where there exists differences among everyone” is only when the Essence of the Soul does not become one with the Revealed Faculties within the body.
“And through the Revelation of the Essence of the Soul as it is sourced within the Essence (of Gd), which through this also the Form of the Faculties is ‘one’ with the Essence (of the soul), the unity of Israel is in all their concepts, also the concepts that related to the body].” Thus, we see that the “Revelation of the Essence of the Soul as it is sourced within the Essence (of G-d)”, which is the “advantage and addition” that the service of Israel bring to Moses, brings a advantage and addition to the unity of Israel, as well.
Now the Rebbe turns to the question asked in the first chapter of this mamor, as to the contradiction between this verse’s “a perpetual candle”, and the next verse’s “from evening to morning”, and the Previous Rebbe’s answer as how the “And they will take for you pure olive oil” creates “a perpetual candle”: “ And in accordance with this it is understood that which is written in the (Previous Rebbe’s) mamor, that through Israel adding on (through their service) in the level of Moses, through this it will be ‘a perpetual candle’, For seemingly, thais that the ‘Candle of the Soul’ (’Candle of G-d is the soul of man’) is perpetual (steady, with no changes), is through the revelation that was drawn through Moses (‘And you shall connect’),” Within the Form of the Revealed Faculties the “Candle of the Soul” is not “steady, with no changes”.
Different Forms are aligned with different situations. It is the “Essence of the Soul”, its Simplicity, is where the “steady, with no change” of the “Perpetual” exists. “For in the Essence of the Soul change is not relevant, and in the mamor it says that the concept of the ‘perpetual candle’ is through that which Israel adds on in the level of Moses, ‘And they shall take to you’.” The Rebbe is presenting a question: Seemingly, that which there is a perpetual candle is through the Essence of the Soul, which seemingly only comes from Above through the “And you shall connect them with the Infinite Light”.
However, the Previous Rebbe’s mamor is saying that the perpetual candle is through that which Isreal gives Moses though their service, “And they shall take to you”? The Rebbe answers this with, “And in accordance with this it is understood”. And now the Rebbe explains: “And there is to say, that within the Revelation of the Essence of the Soul ‘from Above to Below’ through the ‘And you shall connect’, there is a difference between ‘evening’ and ‘morning’.
For the primary revelation is when there is ‘hiddenness and concealment’ (‘evening’), which through this there is awakened and revealed the power of self-sacrifice, and as it was explained earlier (CHAPTER TEN), that even those who in the time of decrees (against Torah and Mitzvos) (‘evening’) they stood with self-sacrifice, and (nevertheless) when they came to a place that it was possible to occupy themselves with Torah and Mitzvah within an abundance (‘morning’), it was not recognizable by them the self-sacrifice that there was by then earlier (when they were in the environment of ‘evening’).
And the true concept of ‘perpetual candle’ (in which change is not applicable) is through the service of Israel that also the Revealed Faculties are ‘one’ with the Essence of the soul, ‘And they shall take to you’.” To understand what the Rebbe is specifically saying here is that “perpetual candle” in which “change is not applicable” can only exist within the Revelation of the Essence of the Soul. Now, the “primary effect of the (lower) Revelation of the Essence of the Soul” the mamor had explained is in the service of self-sacrifice for Torah and Mitzvos.
However, we have explained that we have seen by men of selfsacrifice (Revelation of the Essence of the Soul) that their self-sacrifice only functioned at a time of “evening” with decrees against Torah and Mitzvos, but not in a time of “morning” when it is possible to do Torah and Mitzvah in abundance. Thus, this Revelation of the Essence of the Soul is not the one that brings a “perpetual candle”.
Thus, it is specifically, as the Previous Rebbe’s explained, that the “perpetual candle” is through the Revelation of the Essence of the Soul that is sourced in the Essence of G-d which is revealed specifically through the service of Israel, the “and they shall take to you.
Now, in the last paragraph in this chapter the Rebbe answers his question at the end of CHAPTER EIGHT: “ And in accordance with this there is to explain this which ‘crushed for luminary’ is stated in the verse in connection to the ‘And they will take to you…’ For within the ‘crushed for luminary’ is also included this that Israel is broken and depressed (’crushed’) from this that they are in exile, For this concept is through the service of Israel, that also their Revealed Faculties being aligned to the Essence of the Soul.
And the concept of the ‘luminary’ of the soul that is revealed through this is the Essence of the Soul as she is sourced within the Essence (of G-d), and therefore, ‘crushed for luminary’ is stated in connection to ‘And they shall take for you, etc.’.
” After all that was explained concerning the higher dimension of the Revelation of the Essence of the Soul, as it is Sourced within the Essence of G-d, which is revealed specifically through the “And they shall take to you”, which this higher dimension of “luminary” is included within the verse’s “crushed for luminary”, thus we now understand why the verse has the “crushed for luminary” stated in connection to the “And they shall take for you….” And with this the Rebbe completed Part 2 of the Body of the mamor. Footnotes 58. Chapter 4 - quoted earlier in CHAPTER TWO. 59.
And see the Series 5672, chapter 61 [Vol I, page 114 [(new edition, page) 151]], that within ‘seeing’ there is a difference of levels, and this that the faith is by all of Israel equally is because of the Essence Connection from the Essence of the Soul (which is above “their mazal saw”). 60. See Tanya, Chapter 32. 61. Chapter 4. 62. Proverbs 20:27. 57. See in the mamor, end of Chapter 15.