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Tzava’at HaRivash
Chasidut Author: Yeshaya M’Yanov
Tzava’at HaRivash is a collection of teachings of the Ba’al Shem Tov and of his successor, the Maggid of Mezeritch, presented as an ethical will.
Composed: (c.1730 – c.1770 CE)
Current Version: Warsaw, 1913
Source: rosetta.nli.org.il
Digitization: Sefaria
License: Public Domain
ויחשוב שהוא מבני עולם העליון ולא יהיו חשובין בעיניו כל ב”א הדרים בעוהז”ה כי כל העולם כולו הוא כגרגיר חרדל נגד העולם העליון. ויהי’ שוה בעיניו אם יאהבוהו או ישנאוהו כי אהבתם ושנאתם אין כלום
Consider yourself to be a member of the Supernal World and all the inhabitants of this world will be insignificant in your eyes. For the totality of the world is like a mustard seed compared to the Supernal World. It thus should be equal in your eyes whether people love or hate you, because their love and hate is of no significance.
וכן לא ישגיח כלל על תאוות גופו המטונף שהיא צרעת משכא דחוויא
Likewise, pay no heed to the lusts of your body, which is gross and is the “leprous skin of the snake.”
