## Tanya, Part IV; Iggeret HaKodesh

###### Tanya, Part IV; Iggeret HaKodesh 32:1
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**בָּרֵךְ** ה׳ חֵילָם וּפוֹעַל יָדָם יִרְצֶה, לְרָצוֹן לָהֶם לִפְנֵי ה׳ תָּמִיד, כֹּה יִתֵּן וְכֹה יוֹסִיף ה׳ לְאַמֵּץ לִבָּם בַּגִּבּוֹרִים, וְנָדִיב עַל נְדִיבוֹת יָקוּם, לִהְיוֹת גָּדוֹל הַמְעַשֶּׂה בְּכָל עִיר וּמִנְיָן, וְתֵחָשֵׁב לוֹ לִצְדָקָה.

**Kehot Publication Society (English Translation):**
**THIRTY-TWO.** May the L–rd bless their substance, and may the work of their hand be acceptable,¹ that they may be accepted before the L–rd at all times.² So may the L–rd give and do so yet further to encourage them among the valiant.³ And he who is noble should ever persist by noble things,⁴ to be great in causing others to do⁵ in every city and congregation,⁶; see above, Epistle 1, note 55. and it will be accounted to him for righteousness (*tzedakah*).⁷

footnotes:
¹ Par. Deuteronomy 33:11.
² Par. Exodus 28:38.
³ Par. Amos 2:16.
⁴ Par. Isaiah 32:8.
⁵ See below, note 10.
⁶ Lit., minyan
⁷ Par. Psalms 106:31.


###### Tanya, Part IV; Iggeret HaKodesh 32:2
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וְעַל הָעוֹשֶׂה נֶאֱמַר: ״צִדְקָתוֹ עוֹמֶדֶת לָעַד״ – ״עוֹמֶדֶת״ לְשׁוֹן נְקֵבָה, שֶׁמְּקַבֵּל הִתְעוֹרְרוּת לִבּוֹ הַטָּהוֹר מִ״גָּדוֹל הַמְעַשֶּׂה״, אַף־עַל־פִּי־כֵן – ״עוֹמֶדֶת לָעַד״.

**Kehot Publication Society (English Translation):**
And of one who does (himself) it is said,⁸ “His *tzedakah omedet* (stands) forever”; *omedet*, in feminine gender, because he receives⁹ the arousal of his pure heart from the one who is “greater—who causes others to do.”¹⁰ 9a. See *Shulchan Aruch*, *Yoreh* *Deah* 249:5, and *Turei* *Zahav*, ad loc. Nevertheless, it stands forever.

footnotes:
⁸ Psalms 112:9.
⁹ The feminine is the recipient aspect, while the masculine is the emanating aspect; cf. above, Epistle 4, note 46, and Epistle 15, note 9.
¹⁰ He who causes others to do is greater than the doer.—Bava Batra


###### Tanya, Part IV; Iggeret HaKodesh 32:3
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פֵּירוּשׁ, שֶׁכָּל הַצְּדָקָה וְהַחֶסֶד שֶׁיִּשְׂרָאֵל עוֹשִׂין בָּעוֹלָם הַזֶּה מִנִּדְבַת לִבָּם הַטָּהוֹר הֵן הֵנָּה חַיּוֹת וְקַיָּימוֹת בָּעוֹלָם הַזֶּה הַגַּשְׁמִי עַד זְמַן הַתְּחִיָּיה, שֶׁאָז, הוּא זְמַן גִּילּוּי אֱלֹקוּת וְאוֹר־אֵין־סוֹף בָּרוּךְ־הוּא מִבְּחִינַת סוֹבֵב כָּל עָלְמִין בָּעוֹלָם הַזֶּה, וּכְמוֹ שֶׁנִּתְבָּאֵר בַּאֲרִיכוּת בַּמִּכְתָּב דְּאֶשְׁתָּקַד.

**Kehot Publication Society (English Translation):**
This means: All the acts of charity and kindness the Israelites perform in this world out of the generosity of their pure hearts are alive and subsist in this physical world until the time of the resurrection. Then there will be a time of manifestation of Divinity and of the light of the *En Sof*, blessed is He, from the rank of *sovev kol almin*,¹¹ in this world, and as explained at length in the letter of last year.¹²

footnotes:
¹¹ Encompassing (transcending) all worlds. See above, Epistle 3, note 12.
¹² See above, Epistle 17.


###### Tanya, Part IV; Iggeret HaKodesh 32:4
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וְצָרִיךְ לִהְיוֹת כְּלִי וּמָכוֹן לְהִתְלַבֵּשׁ בּוֹ אוֹר־אֵין־סוֹף בָּרוּךְ־הוּא, כְּמוֹ הַגּוּף לַנְּשָׁמָה עַל דֶּרֶךְ מָשָׁל, כְּמוֹ שֶׁכָּתוּב: ״הֲלֹא כֹה דְבָרִי כָּאֵשׁ״ ״מָה אֵשׁ אֵינָהּ מְאִירָה בָּעוֹלָם הַזֶּה אֶלָּא כְּשֶׁנֶּאֱחֶזֶת וּמִתְלַבֶּשֶׁת בַּפְּתִילָה כוּ׳״, כְּמוֹ שֶׁנִּתְבָּאֵר בְּמָקוֹם אַחֵר.

**Kehot Publication Society (English Translation):**
But there needs to be a vessel and an abode wherein the light of the *En Sof*, blessed is He, can vest itself, just as the body is (a vessel) to the soul, metaphorically speaking. Thus it is written:¹³ “Is not My word like fire”; just as fire does not radiate in this world except when it is attached to, and vests itself in the wick…, as explained elsewhere.¹⁴, Part I, chs. 35, 52, and 53 (in comment. on *Zohar* III:187a).

footnotes:
¹³ Jeremiah 23:29.
¹⁴ See Likkutei Amarim


###### Tanya, Part IV; Iggeret HaKodesh 32:5
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וְהַגּוּף וְהַכְּלִי לְאוֹרוֹ יִתְבָּרֵךְ – הִיא מִדַּת הַחֶסֶד וּנְדִיבַת הַלֵּב, לִיתֵּן וּלְהַשְׁפִּיעַ חַיּוּת לְמַאן דְּלֵית לֵיהּ כוּ׳, כְּמוֹ שֶׁכָּתוּב בַּתִּיקּוּנִים: ״וְכַמָּה גוּפִין תְּקִּינַת לוֹן, וְאִתְקְרִיאוּ בְּתִיקּוּנָא דָא חֶסֶד דְּרוֹעָא יְמִינָא״, וְכָל הַגּוּף נִכְלָל בְּיָמִין, וְכַךְ אָמַר הַפַּיָּיט: ״לְבוּשׁוֹ צְדָקָה״.

**Kehot Publication Society (English Translation):**
The body and the vessel for His light, blessed be He, is the attribute of kindness and the generosity of the heart to give and effuse vitality to one who has nothing (of his own). Thus it is stated in the *Tikkunim*:¹⁵, Introduction 17a. “And many bodies You have prepared for them, and in this preparation they are called: *chesed*—the right arm,” and the whole body is included in the right side. And thus said the composer: “His garment is *tzedakah*.”¹⁶ (*Machzor*, Shacharit for Rosh Hashanah and for Yom Kippur).

footnotes:
¹⁵ Tikkunei Zohar
¹⁶ The composer of the liturgical hymn You are our G–d


###### Tanya, Part IV; Iggeret HaKodesh 32:6
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וְזֶהוּ שֶׁאָמְרוּ רַבּוֹתֵינוּ־זִכְרוֹנָם־לִבְרָכָה: ״אֵין הַצְּדָקָה מִשְׁתַּלֶּמֶת אֶלָּא לְפִי חֶסֶד שֶׁבָּהּ, שֶׁנֶּאֱמַר: ״זִרְעוּ לָכֶם לִצְדָקָה, קִצְרוּ לְפִי חָסֶד״: שֶׁהַקָּצִיר הוּא גִילּוּי הַזְּרִיעָה הַטְּמוּנָה בָּאָרֶץ, וְכָךְ הוּא הַצְּדָקָה וְהַחֶסֶד שֶׁיִּשְׂרָאֵל עוֹשִׂין בִּזְמַן הַגָּלוּת, הִיא טְמוּנָה וְנִסְתֶּרֶת עַד זְמַן הַתְּחִיָּה, שֶׁיִּתְלַבֵּשׁ וְיָאִיר אוֹר־אֵין־סוֹף בָּרוּךְ־הוּא בָּעוֹלָם הַזֶּה הַגַּשְׁמִי, וְ״אִיהוּ וְגַרְמוֹהִי חַד״, הֵם בְּחִינוֹת הַכֵּלִים דְּעֶשֶׂר סְפִירוֹת דַּאֲצִילוּת, וְכָל שֶׁכֵּן וְקַל וָחוֹמֶר אוֹר־אֵין־סוֹף בָּרוּךְ־הוּא הַסּוֹבֵב כָּל עָלְמִין מִלְמַעְלָה מַּעְלָה מִבְּחִינַת אֲצִילוּת.

**Kehot Publication Society (English Translation):**
This is the meaning of what our Sages, of blessed memory, said:¹⁷ 49b; cf. ref. cited above, Epistle 30, note 15. “Charity is recompensed only according to the kindness in it, as it is written:¹⁸ ‘Sow to yourselves for *tzedakah*, reap according to the kindness.’” For the harvest is the manifestation of the seed hidden in the soil. It is likewise with the charity and kindness the Israelites perform in the time of the exile: it is hidden and concealed until the time of the resurrection when the light of the *En Sof*, blessed is He, will vest itself and radiate in this physical world. And (when) He is one with His causations, i.e., the aspects of the *kelim* of the ten *sefirot* of *Atzilut*,¹⁹, Introduction 3b; see above, beg. of Epistle 20. thus *a fortiori* and *a minori ad majus*, (He is one) with the light of the *En Sof*, blessed is He, which encompasses all worlds from exceedingly higher than the sphere of *Atzilut*.

footnotes:
¹⁷ Sukkah
¹⁸ Hosea 10:12.
¹⁹ Tikkunei Zohar


###### Tanya, Part IV; Iggeret HaKodesh 32:7
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וּלְפִיכָךְ נִקְרֵאת ״צְדָקָה״ לְשׁוֹן נְקֵבָה – ״צִדְקָתוֹ עוֹמֶדֶת לָעַד״, שֶׁמְּקַבֶּלֶת הֶאָרָה מֵאוֹר־אֵין־סוֹף הַסּוֹבֵב כָּל עָלְמִין, הַמִּתְלַבֵּשׁ בְּתוֹכָהּ בָּעוֹלָם הַזֶּה הַגַּשְׁמִי בִּזְמַן הַתְּחִיָּה.

**Kehot Publication Society (English Translation):**
That is why (charity) is referred to as *tzedakah*, a feminine gender [“his *tzedakah omedet* forever”]. For it receives a radiation from the light of the *En Sof* that encompasses all worlds, which vests itself in it in this physical world at the time of the resurrection.


###### Tanya, Part IV; Iggeret HaKodesh 32:8
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אֲבָל ״צֶדֶק לְפָנָיו יְהַלֵּךְ״ הוּא לְשׁוֹן זָכָר, הִיא מִדַּת הַחֶסֶד הַמִּתְעוֹרֶרֶת בְּלֵב הָאָדָם מֵעַצְמוֹ, עַל־יְדֵי הִתְעוֹרְרוּת אַהֲבַת ה׳ בִּקְרִיאַת־שְׁמַע, וּלְדָבְקָה בוֹ, וְלִמְסוֹר נַפְשׁוֹ בְּ״אֶחָד״, וּ״בְכָל מְאֹדֶךָ״ כִּפְשׁוּטוֹ וְכוּ׳.

**Kehot Publication Society (English Translation):**
“*Tzedek* shall go before him,”²⁰ however, is a masculine gender. It is the attribute of kindness that is aroused in the heart of man of itself, through the arousal of the love of G–d when reading the *Shema*—to cleave to Him²¹ and to surrender his soul at *echad*;²² (the L–rd is One—Deuteronomy 6:4). See the writings of the Arizal dealing with devotions (*Shaar* *Hakavanot*; *Pri Etz Chaim*, etc.) s.v. *Keriat Shema*; cf. *Tikkunei Zohar*, Introduction 10b; *Bach* on *Tur* *Orach* *Chaim* 61 (s.v. *Veyikra’enah*). See also *Likkutei Torah*, *Vayikra* 5a, and cf. above, Epistle 28, note 38. and “with all your wealth”²³—in the literal sense….²⁴ 54a and 61b.

footnotes:
²⁰ Psalms 85:14.
²¹ Deuteronomy 11:22 (ibid., 30:22).
²² I.e., to be in a mode of readiness for self-sacrifice for the sanctification of G–d’s Name, when uttering the word echad
²³ “And you shall love the L–rd with all your wealth”; Deuteronomy 6:5.
²⁴ See Berachot


###### Tanya, Part IV; Iggeret HaKodesh 32:9
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וּבְ״אִתְעָרוּתָא דִלְתַתָּא״, וְ״כַמַּיִם הַפָּנִים לַפָּנִים כֵּן לֵב״ אָדָם הָעֶלְיוֹן כוּ׳ – ״אִתְעָרוּתָא דִלְעֵילָּא״, הוּא הַמְשָׁכַת אוֹר־אֵין־סוֹף בָּרוּךְ־הוּא הַסּוֹבֵב כָּל עָלְמִין לְמַטָּה מַּטָּה בָּעוֹלָם הַזֶּה הַגַּשְׁמִי בִּבְחִינַת גִּילּוּי בִּזְמַן הַתְּחִיָּה, כִּמְבוֹאָר בַּמִּכְתָּב דְּאֶשְׁתָּקַד בַּאֲרִיכוּת.

**Kehot Publication Society (English Translation):**
And the arousal from below [“As waters (reflect) the face to face, so is the heart of—*the Supernal*—man…”²⁵] elicits an arousal from above,²⁶ i.e., an effulgence of the light of the *En Sof*, blessed is He, that encompasses all worlds, to the nethermost in this physical world, in a state of manifestation, at the time of the resurrection, as explained at length in last year’s letter.²⁷

footnotes:
²⁵ Proverbs 27:19; see above, Epistle 1, note 26. (The “Supernal Man”—see Ezekiel 1:26.)
²⁶ Set above, Epistle 4, note 45.
²⁷ See above, note 12.


###### Tanya, Part IV; Iggeret HaKodesh 32:10
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וְזֶהוּ ״לְפָנָיו יְהַלֵּךְ״, שֶׁמּוֹלִיךְ וּמַמְשִׁיךְ ״פָּנִים״ הָעֶלְיוֹנִים מִלְמַעְלָה מֵהָאֲצִילוּת עַד עוֹלַם הָעֲשִׂיָּה. וְכָעֵת עֵת לְקַצֵּר, וְכָל טוּב מֵהֶם לֹא יִבָּצֵר, ״הֵטִיבָה ה׳ לַטּוֹבִים וְלִישָׁרִים בְּלִבּוֹתָם״, כְּנֶפֶשׁ תִּדְרְשֶׁנּוּ:

**Kehot Publication Society (English Translation):**
And this is the meaning of “*yehalech* before Him.”²⁸ For (*tzedek*) leads²⁹ is an active form of the causative stem of the verb הלך; see above, Epistle 4. and elicits the Supernal Countenance (*panim*) from higher than *Atzilut* to the world of *Asiyah*.³⁰ But now is a time to be brief, and may He not restrain from them all the good.³¹ Be beneficient, O L–rd, to the good, and to those who are upright in their heart,³² as is the wish of he who seeks it.³³

footnotes:
²⁸ Above, note 20.
²⁹ Yehalech
³⁰ See above, end of Epistle 4; cf. also end of Epistle 30.
³¹ In Hebrew this sentence is a play on rhyming words.
³² Psalms 125:4.
³³ Par. Lamentations 3.25.