Sunday Iyar 25, 5703 40th day of the Omer
Chumash: Bamidbar, First Parsha with Rashi.
Tehillim: 119, 1-96.
Tanya: In a truly (p. 269)...in the very lowest. (p. 269).
Among the Alter Rebbe's Maamarim of 5555 (1795) in Lyozna:
"The reward of a mitzva is the mitzva." [1]
The mitzva in its ultimate essence - state is the reward.
The revelation of this essence will take place in the Time to Come. This is the "enduring principal of the mitzva." [2]
However, man also "eats of its fruits in This World," [3] each mitzva according to its particular nature; i.e. when man has that particular need, he is answered.
Notes:
Pirkei Avot 4:2.
Pei'a 1:1.
Ibid. See Siddur p. 10, "These are the precepts, the fruits of which man enjoys in this world, while the enduring principal (reward) remains in the World to Come etc..."