When we elevate matters with our clarity of intent, our awareness continuously expands in the abundance of a superior reality. Then we shall gaze and be illumined. But if our mindfulness is dislodged and grows impoverished, the face of heaven darkens.
Beauty turns to mourning and to barrenness.
Then that clarifying process that comes from heaven, which demands the right to play its role, depresses the special mission of humanity. It dulls the light of mindfulness and the complete contents of a full life. Now, the wellsprings of the flow of life dry up because our hands are feeble in dealing with the supernal Torah. But everything returns to its light and to its shining life when we engage in supernal repentance filled with knowledge and positive mindfulness, illumined with the light of Torah contained within the wisdom of the Jewish people, which is the inheritance of our patriarchs and which is filled with an eternal glory. One of Rabbi Mendel's companions and students was the genius, tzaddik and remarkable thinker, the founder of Chabad Hasidism, Rabbi Shneur Zalman.