Wednesday Tamuz 18 5703
Chumash: Pinchas, Revi'i with Rashi.
Tehillim: 88-89.
Tanya: Ch. 4. However, (p. 355)...days and years! (p. 355).
The Alter Rebbe said of R. Moshe Vilenker:[1]
"Moshe has Mochin D'Gadlut, magnitude of intellect[2] and in his ten years of toil[3], he has attained through his labors a powerful, capacious, wide-ranging intellectuality - (Mochin Rechavim)."[4]
For three years R. Moshe Vilenker prepared himself for Yechidus with the Alter Rebbe. Afterwards he remained in Lyozna for seven years to translate the Yechidus into actual Avoda.
Notes:
A giant among the early Chassidim.
A mind capable of integrating even opposing concepts.
"Toil" and "labor," refer to enormous efforts in inner spiritual self-improvement.
The term Mochin Rechavim, lit. "broad intellect," defies translation. It does NOT refer to Reb Moshe's broad spectrum of knowledge or to "broadmindedness"; rather, it describes the nature (intense, powerful), absorptive ability (capacious), and breadth (wide-ranging) of his intellectuality - his faculty of intelligence.