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  Rabbi L. Wineberg -12 years ago

  Boneh b'keilim
  Yakov, so glad you're listening and appreciating. I don't know your background, and which seforim you can access.
  
  Here goes: see likutei sichos chelek 5 hosofos lparshas vayera, where the Rebbe cites a short ma'amar by the Alter Rebbe on v'isha achas. what emerges from there is that only when she establishes that she has an "asuch shamen" does Elisha tell her to borrow vessels.
  
  An elaboration of this is found in pelach horimon of R. Hillel Paritcher on parshas vayera.
  
  2) The Alter Rebbe in Likutei Torah Behaalosecha (30, col 2) speaks of the pasuk in Tehillim 107 אוילים מדרך פשעם ומעונותיהם יתענו. 
  
  The A.R. explains that this refers to a "klein-kepel'dikke" teshuva which focuses only on one's specific actions but ignores  one's "derech", his general orientation, such as perikas ol.
  
  I have applied this to the positive side of teshuvah, and related it to boneh.
  
  Keep on learning!
  
  LW

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  Yaakov -12 years ago

  Source?
  I enjoyed very much. Thanks.
  
  
  
  Rabbi, what is the source for the spiritual explanation in the idea that there is no construction in "kelim," namely, that when we have to rebuild our lives we cannot begin with the vesses, we must begin with the light, the energy, the underlying attitudues and perspectives impeding our "reconstruction"?
  
  
  
  It is a briliant idea, for example in going on a diet when you have a food addiction, or marriage struggles, that the problems are not this technical detai or that one, but we have to examine the "or," the underlying energy. Don't focus on the "kelim," but on the "or," and the kelim will fall in already to their proper place.
  
  
  
  What is the source for this insight please?

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