Friday Sh'vat 16 5703
Torah lessons: Chumash: B'shalach, Shishi with Rashi.
Tehillim: 79-82.
Tanya: These "contractions" (p. 89)...to no account whatever.(p.89).

My father said: Coldness and heresy are separated by so slender a barrier! It is said, "For the Eternal your G‑d is a consuming fire."1 G‑dliness is a flame of fire. Learning Torah and davening must be with a blazing heart, that "all my bones may utter"2 the words of G‑d in Torah and prayer.