תּוֹרָה קלה - כִּי אֶקַּח מוֹעֵד

Torah 394

A remedy [segulah] to be saved from arrogance — to honour the festivals and receive them with joy and gladness and expansiveness of heart — and to delight in them with food and drink and garments as is fitting — according to one's ability.

Drawing close to the Tzadik also nullifies arrogance. Therefore this is the sign of whether one is truly bound to the Tzadik — if one has lowliness.

The primary binding is love — that one love the Tzadik with complete love — so that one's soul is bound to his soul. Until through the love of the Tzadik — the love of women is nullified from one — in the aspect of: ""your love was wondrous to me"" etc. [II Samuel 1:26].

When one receives a festival properly — it is the aspect of greeting the face of one's teacher at the festival [hakbalas p'nay rabbo ba-regel] — even if one is many "parsaos" distant from one's teacher. And likewise in reverse — if one is bound to the Tzadik — one can feel the holiness of the festival. And through this one elevates the holy sovereignty from among the husks — and the wicked kingdom falls — and the power of the sovereignty of the nations is nullified.

On a festival one must return in teshuvah from within joy. For on all the festivals the world is judged — as our Sages of blessed memory said: ""at four periods"" etc. [Rosh Hashonah 16a]. Therefore one must return in teshuvah then. And through this the holy sovereignty goes out from among the husks as above — and the redemption is hastened.