Torah26:AChickThatDiesinItsEgg
Thelanguageofourrabbi,ofblessedmemory
Aretzitzah[chick]thatdiesinitsbe’usah[egg,rootb’ay],wheredoesitsruach[spirit]goout? And he said to them: Where it enters [ol, root ‘a.l.h]. [Rashi: retzitzah [chick] that died – chick that died inside its shell.]
Thisretzitzah[chick]–thisistheaspectoftzadik[righteousone], the aspect of “Maythetzadikflourishinhisdays” [Psalms 72:7]. That they asked him: The tzadik who kills himself [spiritually, exerting himself to the point of self-sacrifice] and gives his soul in his tzlosah [prayer] and in his ba’usah [supplicatory prayer, root b’ay], in which of the places from the tzlosah does he need to give his soul more? And he replied to them: Where it enters [ol, root ‘a.l.h] – that is, [where the machshavoszaros enters, there he must exert self-sacrifice to lihaalos them (elevate, root ‘a.l.h)] – how he has to lihaalos [elevate, root ‘a.l.h] nitzotzoshakdushah [sparks of holiness, divine fragments trapped in the mundane] – that is, how machshavoszaros [foreign thoughts, distracting or impure thoughts] enters [ol, root ‘a.l.h] in him, and he needs to lihaalos [elevate, root ‘a.l.h] them, as is known – there he needs to give his soul.