And these words with which I connect with you today… (Deut. 6:6)
Every day these words should be just as new for you as if they were given today. (Sifri)
How could the same mitzvah you did yesterday be new to you today? The same words of Torah as though you never knew them before? The same prayer as though you never said it before?
Through a simple meditation on what is happening when you do that mitzvah, when you study those words, when you pour out your heart in your prayer.
Contemplate that the entire universe is but a glimmer of G‑d’s infinite light. Yet, in this mitzvah, you hold the Creator Himself in your hands. As you learn His Torah, your soul joins with His very essence. In your prayer, you and He are alone as one.
It makes no difference that you feel nothing, that you are not awake to the glory of this moment, that the physical body does not allow you to perceive reality as it is. One day you will see this moment now from a place far beyond this coarse world.
But then it will be only a memory, a souvenir.
Now you have the real thing.
Because, says G‑d, today, in the moment of this mitzvah now, I, just I, beyond any name or definition, I connect with you.
And such a moment is a moment beyond time.
It seems clear to me that this segment of the Rebbe holds a truth: our brains understand little by little, and then we come up with a larger understanding of an issue .Ask Einstein, he pondered upon a problem and didn't find his solution until after a while. In the same manner, when we want to be near to H' repetition should not be boring, because each act brings us nearer to H' and the truth itself How? The key word is intentionality, meaning putting all heart and soul in what you are doing, not pretending to go trough the motions because then the Mitzvah doesn't advance our understanding. By intentionality I mean all our senses, all our intention and the understanding we had before togheter will help grasping something new and important by only if we do it that way. Halevi!