אות - קמג

When he came from Lemberg and still had his illness — the cough, tuberculosis — prevailing upon him. And then he was traveling nearly every day to take walks near the city for healing and other awesome intentions he had in this (284). And we heard from his holy mouth then on the way of the walk several Torahs and several wonderful and awesome discourses and stories. Also the discourse beginning: "Know that when one prays in the field" — said on the verse (Bereishis 24:63): "And Yitzchak went out to speak in the field" etc. (in Likutay Tinyana section 11) — was also said then at the time when we traveled with him to walk. And we stood in one field and descended from the wagon, and he was still sitting on the wagon and we stood around him. In the meantime the time of Mincha arrived and we wanted to pray there. Then he said the aforementioned Torah. And the matter there — that when one prays in the field then all the grasses etc. enter into the prayer etc. — see there. And he said afterward that just as we are standing around him, he sees all the grasses — how every blade of grass presses itself toward each and every one of those standing there in order to rise and enter within his prayer as is explained in the aforementioned Torah (285). Also the Torah of "Where is the place of His glory" on the verse "And where is the lamb for the burnt offering" (Bereishis 22:7) in section 12. And the Torah on the statement: "What is the reason the camel has a short tail and the ox has a long tail" (Shabbas 77b) — beginning: "These who boast in greatness" in section 15. And the Torah beginning: "They asked — why is it that when one seeks livelihood" etc. in section 16 — all this we heard on the way, during the walk. And more other Torahs. And all the discourses mentioned and what was said "in a cheerful mood" (there) and all that we heard then on the way — all of it is connected and hinted in the teachings of our Sages o.b.m., in the wondrous aggadah that Rabbi Yehudah asked Rabbi Zeira when he was in a cheerful mood: "Forty-nine chickens raised one eye" etc. And there is hinted all of this (286). 284. RAK: Rabbainu returned from Lemberg on Sunday the 8th of Tammuz 5568. These Torahs were said in Av and Elul of that year. 285. RAK: In Yemei Moharnat 25, section 29 in the vocalized edition, and in Chayai Moharan, Discourses Connected to the Teachings, 51, the matter of how this discourse was revealed is explained at length. 286. RAK: These questions are brought in the Gemara tractate Shabbas 77b, and there: "if he had asked him about all that happens in the universe, he would have been able to tell him."