אות - נח

When you want to come up with new ideas in the Torah, you must concentrate on one particular subject. Take a verse or a matter and review it many times, hammering on the door until it is opened for you.

Sometimes a thought flashes through your mind and then it escapes. You must be a man of valor, pursuing it until it is recaptured. 85 This was said on the coach on the way to Tcherin for Shabbat Shirah . The lesson delivered on that Shabbat is cited in Likutey Moharan I, 192. Assuming that the lessons follow some chronological order, the year can be given as 5565/1805. The exact date of Shabbat Shirah was 12 Shevat 5565 (January 12, 1805).