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Tzav VeZeruz Chapter 32

Can copy this into an AI, or connect the whole library to your assistant. For deeper learning, you can directly use the original seforim, sites, and apps.

הרבה יותר יקל לו לאדם ללמוד שנים כמות בהתמדה, אף להסתגף בכל כחו, מאשר לעבוד את ד׳ יום אחד באיכות טובה ואמיתית, גם לפי השגתו.

JUST ONE FULLY SACRED DAY

While it may be so much simpler to devote many years to diligent learning and even to engage in maximal asceticism than to serve the divine for one [single] day with good and honest quality, even the kind [of devotion limited by] an individual’s own capacities of apperception [is still worthwhile].

ומה אנו ומה כל עבודתנו, אם ליום אחד עבודה, הטובה גם להשגתנו, כ״כ קשה לנו להגיע.

DEVOTION FOR JUST ONE DAY

So what are we really and what value is there to our devotion even if for this one day, even according to our [own limited] perceptive capabilities, when it feels like such a difficult task to realize?

אבל אל נתיאש, וידינו לא נרפה, כי העבודה היא עבודתנו, ויגיעתנו עם תשיקתנו מטרת חיינו. ואותן לא־ל הקדוש נקדש.

DEVOTION AMALGAMATED FROM FATIGUE AND DESIRE

However, we shall not despair, nor should our hands slacken, for devotion is our devotion, and the amalgam of fatigue and desire [we bring to our devotion] is the purpose of our lives. And such efforts [are worthy by virtue of our] sanctifying of the sacred divine totality.

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