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And this is the aspect of a pot that is not bas yomah [of that day — i.e., not used within the past twenty-four hours], which imparts a spoiled taste [noasain ta'am lifgam] and does not render [food] forbidden. For the speech of the Holy Tongue — from which comes the essential life-force and ta'am of all foods, as stated above — is in the aspect of days and measures and vessels [yamim u'midos v'kailim], in the aspect of: "Day unto day utters speech [yabi'a omer], and night unto night breathes forth [yechaveh] knowledge, etc." [Psalms 19:3] — which is the speech of the Holy Tongue. (As explained in the words of Rabbainu — see there.) And this is what we heard from the holy mouth of our master, teacher, and Rebbe, may his light illuminate — that each and every day has a different influx [shefa], for the influx that is originally in the aspect of omer [utterance/speech] — and is afterward given corporeal form below — is in the aspect of days and measures, in the aspect of "day unto day, etc." and "night unto night breathes forth, etc." And therefore the influx of each and every day differs from its fellow. And this is the aspect of food spoiling when it is left from day to day — for the essential power of all food is only in its own day, as stated above. And the more the ta'am has become corporeal and clothed in greater physicality, the more it falls under the dominion of time — which is [expressed through] the days. And therefore when the taste has been absorbed into the vessel — which is the clothing of the ta'am in the lowest level, below which there is no lower level — for even when the taste is clothed within the food itself, it is still in the aspect of interiority and inner-mind [pnimiyus u'mochin] relative to the vessel that contains the food, since the vessel is secondary to the food. And therefore when the taste has been clothed within the vessel and absorbed into it, it becomes spoiled immediately after [that] day — for the vessel is in the aspect of days and measures, because the days are the aspect of vessels [kailim]. And therefore the taste absorbed in the vessel becomes spoiled after that day, as stated above.

And this is the aspect of bitachon [trust in G-d] — that one must trust in Hashem, may He be blessed, and it is forbidden to calculate from one day to its fellow. For bitachon is the cooking [bishul] and completion [gemar] of the influx — as is brought in the words of Rabbainu, may his light illuminate, in the discourse "Pasach Rabbi Shimon v'amar — Ays la'asos laHashem, etc." [Likutay Moharan I:60] — that the bitachon-possessed of the generation are the vessels of procreation, in the aspect of the kidneys [kelyos], which are called betachos [trusted/secure ones] — for through bitachon the influx is completed and cooked [misgamar u'misbashel]. And the essential cooking of the influx through bitachon is through the perfection of the Holy Tongue, which is the aspect of woman [ishah], in the aspect of "her husband's heart trusts in her [batach bah lev ba'lah]" [Proverbs 31:11] — see there. And therefore the essential bitachon is not to calculate from one day to its fellow — for bitachon, which is in the aspect of the perfection of the Holy Tongue as stated above, is in the aspect of days: the aspect of "day unto day, etc." as stated above. And this is what is brought in the Magen Avraham in the name of the Zohar: that it is forbidden to cook [food] from one day to its fellow [meyom l'chavero] — for the essential prohibition of leaving over from one day to its fellow, which is the blemish of bitachon, is most [strongly applicable] in cooking — for cooking is in the aspect of bitachon, for bitachon is the aspect of cooking, as stated above: the aspect of the kidneys which are the vessels of cooking, which are called betachos, as stated above.