Now, the Alter Rebbe will conclude with the practical lesson from what was explained above:
וְהִּנּ ה, ל זֹא ת ַקיִּער עֲבוֹדַ ת ה א ד ם – לִּהְיוֹ ת אַחַ ר ה ר צוֹ א בְּחִּינַת ש וֹ ב, Therefore, the main service of a person to Hashem after the “Yearning” is to “Return,” ש ֶה ר צוֹ א א ינוֹ אֶלּ א הַתְ ח ל ה לְעוֹר ר הַנֶּפֶש , since the “Yearning” is only the beginning of the service, to arouse the soul to connect to Hashem, אֲב ל קיִּע הר הוּ א הַהַמְש כ ה בְּכ לִּי ם רַ בִּּי ם ֹו יִּתֹואְּדת הַתּוֹר ה וּבַמִּּ צְוֹ ת . but the main thing is to draw down Hashem’s revelation into the many “vessels” of the letters of the Torah and the fulfillment of the Mitzvos.
וְזֶהוּ ש ֶא מְרוּ רַזַ "ל סוֹף פֶּרֶ ק קַמּ א דַ עֲבוֹד ה ז ר ה (יט, א): לְעוֹל ם לִּיגְרֹס אִּ ינִּ ש , וְאַף עַל גַּב דִּּ מְש ַכַּח , וְאַף עַל גַּב דְּ ל א י דַ ע מַא י ק א מַ ר, ש ֶנֶּאֱמַ ר (תְּהִּלִּּים קיט, כ) : 'גּ רְ ס ה נַפְש ִּ י לְתַאֲב ה"' . And this is what our Sages, of blessed memory, said in the end of the first chapter of Tractate Avoda Zara, “A person should always read words of Torah, even though he sometimes forgets what he learned, and even if he doesn’t know the meaning of what he is saying, as it says (Tehilim 119:20) “My soul is broken in desire (to study Your Torah).”
The proof from the verse is from the word גרסה, which here means “broken,” similar to the word גירסא , which means to learn Torah by reading many words of Torah, rather than focusing on depth. This implies that the desire of the soul is to study many words of Torah, even if it does not understand everything.
וְהַיְינוּ , מִּש ּ וּ ם ַקיִּעֶ שר ה עֲבוֹד ה – לַעֲש וֹ ת כּ לִּי ם רַבִּּי ם לְגִּילּוּ י וְהַמְש כַת ה רֹוּתַה לֶ ש תֹו יִּתֹוא ם הְו ,רֹוא ה ִּ יֶ שגְרוֹ ס וְיִּלְמוֹ ד כוּ' , וְא ז מִּמּ יל א ייַקְתִּיְו ך שְמּוים ה אוֹ ר . Since the main thing in the service of Hashem is to make many “vessels” for the revelation and to draw forth the light, and these vessels are the letters of the Torah that he reads and learns. Then, automatically when there will be vessels, the light will continue to last.
