Sunday 23 Adar I 5703
Torah Lessons (5703)	Chumash: Vayakheil, First Parsha with Rashi. Tehillim: 108-112. Tanya: Ch. 32. Acting upon (p. 145)...great and small. (p. 145).

Rabbis and scholars are called the "eyes of the community" and "heads of the thousands of Israel," and when the head is healthy, the body is then also healthy.

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Tuesday Adar Sheini 23 5703
Torah Lessons (5703)	Chumash: Sh'mini, Shlishi with Rashi. Tehillim: 108-112. Tanya: To be sure (p. 181)...and expansion. (p. 183).

My father once said to a Rav, [1] who labored in Avoda and was an especially diligent scholar: "A Rav must remember at all times and at every moment that he always stands on the threshold between being one of those who bring merit to the public and, G-d forbid, one of those who cause the public to sin - the threshold between the loftiest of heights and the most abysmal depth. All issues must touch him at the innermost core of his soul, literally, because his very soul is at stake.

   

Notes:

1. (Back to text) "Senior Rabbi"; a practising Halachic (Torah-law) authority in a congregation, city. etc.