Chasidut su Cantico dei cantici 4:78
Mevo HaShearim
Now, we do find recorded in the holy books many etzot and practices. We have already cited from the Besht of the need for strategies in avodah, and from the Maor vaShemesh that we need new strategies from time to time. At that time, when they would direct someone to be aroused in love or fear, they did so with their holy spirit, for the tzaddikim were able to draw forth a holy fire from Above to each of the hasidim. They also gave etzot, like the ‘words of the living God’499An allusion to Talmud Eruvin 13b. which we cited from the Noam Elimelekh: how one should gaze at the Heavens and see the stars in their paths, and envision the Holy Temple built before him etc… And in Beit Aharon, how he should envision that he is in lying in a grave, afflicted, and they say to him ‘stand and pray!’ etc… And the tune which the Besht instructed should be sung before almost any Torah is spoken. And as cited in Beit Aharon, “Tashuri meRosh Amunah”500Song of Songs 4:8. JPS renders “Trip down from Amana’s peak.” In this Yiddish saying, R. Aharon plays on the terms ‘tashuri,’ relating it to a root meaning ‘sing,’ and ‘amana,’ relating it to a root meaning ‘faith.’ –the greater a Jew’s faith, the more he will sing his head off.”
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