3052 —פירוד הלבבות, פוליטיקות, והמשימה האמיתית של חסידות

B"H, 25 MarCheshvan, 5715.

Brooklyn.

Greetings and blessing!

...What will be regarding communal work in the future? It seems that after all the "work," and after all that they have tangibly seen, and thank G‑d there were several things in visible and revealed good, the disunity of hearts and contemptible politics have not been touched (not affected) at all. All the efforts of our holy Rebbeim to draw down success in their work have not helped, for the time being at least, to make the workers understand that there is Chassidus in the world, and that it must be spread even outward, how much more so within. And most essential of all: that this is not only something written in books, on which to reflect before prayer or at special times, but it means, in actual fact, themselves; that regardless of what a person knows of himself, his standing and condition, how much more so what our holy Rebbeim know, they have chosen them as shluchim to spread this Torah and its directives in a land "which the eyes of the L‑rd your G‑d are upon, from the beginning of the year to the end of the year."

The moral is well understood, along the lines of what is explained in Iggeres HaKodesh, section 24: for many generations from the Giving of the Torah until these days of ours, among whom were tzaddikim and very great and lofty souls, nevertheless the King concealed His strength in inner chambers, with many guards at the doors, although many, many waited to see His might and glory. And in our generation and our time, when it arose in His will to reveal Himself, and He chose special people who would reveal Him to all and show the glory of His kingship and the splendor of His greatness: one who rejects this task with disdain for the sake of his imagined honor and contemptible politics, how much more so one who uses the task only for strife and disunity of hearts, is like what is explained in Tanya at the end of chapter 24, like the parable of one who seizes, etc.; see there.

And all the excuses along the lines of "it was not I who wrote it, but Yehudah the tailor who wrote it": the saying of the Rebbe Maharash is known, "G‑d you cannot fool, and people you cannot fool either," and one can only deceive oneself...

Publisher's notes

Printed in Likkutei Sichos, vol. 20, p. 607, and completed from the secretariat's copy; see below, letters 3059, 3090.

The saying (פתגם): See also above, letter 2991.