The holy and sage Alter Rebbe, of blessed memory |
Preface:
The realization of this purpose entails a
two-way correlation; one in the direction from Above downward to earth; the
other, from the earth upward. In fulfillment of the first, man draws holiness
from the Divinely-given Torah and Commandments, to permeate therewith every
phase of his daily life and his environment – his “share” in this world; in
fulfillment of the second, man draws upon all the resources at his disposal,
both created and man-made, as vehicles for his personal ascendancy and, with
him, that of the surrounding world. One of these basic resources is the vehicle
of human language and communication.
As the Alter Rebbe, author of the Tanya,
pointed out in one of his other works, any of the “seventy toungues” when used
as an instrument to disseminate the Torah and Mitzvoth, is itself “elevated”
thereby from its earthly domain into the sphere of holiness, while at the same
time serving as a vehicle to draw the Torah and Mitzvoth, from above downward,
to those who read and understand this language.
By Menachem Schneerson, of blessed memory.
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