10. The service of a Jew must be carried out with Kabbalas Ol (subservience to the Will of G-d) that goes beyond the limitations of one's understanding, and with an alacrity which is likewise beyond limitations, as in "B'chol meodecho" - with all your might. Such a service reaches the highest level (Me'od) of G-dliness.
However, one might assume that the above represents the perfection in the service of Hashem, as in the well known quote "Even if we would be commanded to chop wood… (We would do so with complete Kabbolos Ol)."
Therefore we are given the lesson of the "blossoming of Aaron's staff", which contained buds, blossoms and only then almonds. The miracle itself is beyond nature which represents our service of Kabbolos Ol. Since this was a miraculous, overnight blossoming of a stick, surely there was no need for buds and blossoms to produce almonds! G-d could have simply produced the end result - almonds. The lesson, therefore, is that even miracles must go through as much of the natural process as possible. That is how Hashem wants it, in order to have an effect on the physical world, by allowing it to "participate" in the miracle.
Kabbalos Ol must permeate all of one's faculties and natural being, and produce "fruits" in accordance with, and with the participation of, one's natural self, as in the natural order of the buds, blossoms and almonds on Aaron's staff. Your very nature should be affected by your Kabbolos Ol, so that it becomes a "quick nature" that does everything with great alacrity in a holy manner.
There is also a lesson to be learnt regarding one's mundane affairs, and his physical livelihood in particular. Aaron's staff, with all of its buds, blossoms and almonds was placed as an everlasting testimony in the Mishkon and Mikdosh just as was the container full with manna.
In the days of Yirmiyahu, the Jews complained, "If we leave our work and busy ourselves with Torah study, from where will we receive our livelihood?" Yirmiyahu displayed the container of manna and exclaimed, "See! With this your forefathers were provided! There are many messengers of Hashem with which He provides food for those who fear Him!"
The same lesson can be derived from the staff of Aaron. It produced almonds - a physical food - in a miraculously short time. Likewise, can the Jews' livelihood be provided for them quickly and miraculously.
On the other hand it is written, "And Hashem will bless you in all that you do." G-d's blessing comes through the natural order (complete with all of the steps of buds, blossoms and almonds). Livelihood requires buying and selling with honesty, following the natural path accompanied by faith in Hashem.
Thus a person has fashioned a ‘vessel’ with which to receive Hashem's blessing of miraculous parnasah, miracles that play themselves out through natural events. The natural order and the nations of the world help direct parnasah to Yidden.
This is something that we have seen clearly, specifically in the latter generations. Hashem has blessed the Yidden to receive their livelihood with less effort, whilst accompanied by tranquility of mind and body. Hashem did this by making the world itself aid the Yidden.
11. We also have a specific lesson to learn in our service of "spreading the wellsprings of Chassidus outwards". It can be represented by the Hebrew letter daled (which is comprised of two lines; One horizontal line that balances at one end on a vertical line. The top horizontal line juts out a little beyond the vertical line).
"Spreading" (the teaching) requires bittul - represented by the point of the Daled that juts out. (Bittul requires ignoring one's ego in order to perfom G-d's Will, hence the small point). "The wellsprings' (of Chassidus) are represented by the upper line with expanse (width). (Spreading) "outwards" is represented by the vertical line, that carries from the upper line downwards.
(We are approaching the month of Tammuz, the fourth month. It is therefore represented by the daled, the fourth Hebrew letter, and shares its theme. This idea was elaborated earlier in the sicha, but has not been translated here due to constraints.)
A Yid must begin with "spreading"- his very existence must be one that spreads G-dliness without limitations.
Even before he needs to be told what exactly to spread (the horizontal "teaching" line), and where exactly to spread it (the vertical "outwards" line), he must already know immediately upon arising in the morning with "Modeh Ani Lefonecho", - even before he performs his own daily service - he is a being that spreads G-dliness!
"I was created to serve my Master (Hashem)"; not that he was created as a being for himself and that being busies itself with dissemination. Rather, his entire existence is dissemination! "L'chatchila Ariber" - immediately from the beginning (t'chila) one stands above (ariber).
Thereafter one must bring this state of being into specifics. What should one disseminate? Torah, which purifies in any quantity, that with which it comes in contact. Where is he to disseminate Torah? In the "outside". He should begin with the "outside" of his own self, i.e. to draw from the "point" of his faith and Kabbolos Ol into his intellect, emotions and faculties. He must follow with ‘spreading’ to the outside in its plain meaning; outside of the Yeshiva and the Shul, even to the furthest places.
12. One may question: Even if I do my service completely, to the extent that that my being becomes a "disseminator" with total bittul, what will it help when "You are the few amongst the nations"? The world contains 70 nations - a vast number when compared to the solitary lamb!
In other words: What will the world say and what will the nations say concerning a Yid who performs his task of spreading the wellsprings outwards, and specifically, in hastening the complete redemption? They do not understand what any of it means! It is truly a very lofty service, but the world (according to him) must be reckoned with.
The answer: the world is already prepared and ready! When a Yid carries out his service as he should - beyond limitations, yet enclothed in the vessels of the natural world, he will see how the world, the nature of the world, and the nations of the world, help him to accomplish his service!
Even in previous times, when there were many obstacles to Jews, a chossid who reached such a level could nevertheless declare "Bittul goes!" Certainly this can be accomplished nowadays, when we do not have many obstacles.
There is the well known story of a chossid who walked the streets in Russia. Like a true chossid, he totally disregarded the limitations and dangers placed upon him at that time. A policeman stopped him with the cry "Who goes there?" He replied "Bittul is going!" The chossid answered with that which was true to him; his entire existence is "bittul", therefore "bittul" goes! He answered in Russian for his bittul did not remain abstract, but rather had been drawn down into his everyday existence and nature, including the Russian language used in that place. "When you go to a town, follow its customs", so that the nature of the place perceives and declares that bittul goes.
13. Gimmel Tammuz leads into the days of liberation, the 12th and 13th of Tammuz. Each year this redemption occurs on a higher level. (The Hebrew word for year is "Shanah" which shares the root of the word for change, "shinuy". A year is the amount of time in which change encompasses a full cycle of "changes" [thus, after having gone through the "changes" and accomplishments; a whole year since last Tammuz, this year's days of liberation recurs on a higher level].)
We see miraculous events unfolding in the world. We have reached the time where, although miracles must occur which defy limitation, leading to the wonders and miracles of the complete redemption, they nevertheless permeate the world's nature to the extent that the world itself aids the sprouting of the redemption! (Just as the miracle of Aaron's staff affected the very nature of the staff, so that the staff sprouted almonds in a natural manner.)
"As the days of your leaving Egypt, I will show you wonders!" In addition to the miracles [which broke nature] that occurred when the Jews left Egypt, there was also "and they shall empty Egypt out" [i.e. the "great wealth" the Jews left with]. Although gathering Egypt's wealth began in a miraculous manner [since during the plague of darkness a miraculous light displayed Egypt's wealth for the Jews], it brought about a situation where the Egyptians later helped the Jews of their own motivation! They gave the Jews far more than was requested of them.
How much more so will the great wonders of the true and complete Redemption - wondrous even when compared to those wrought in Egypt - exist in the manner that the nature of the world will participate.
Now to address the practical aspect:
