Thursday Menachem Av 18 5703
Chumash: Eikev, Chamishi with Rashi.
Tehillim: 88-89.
Tanya: This lowly world, (p. 413)...nests in Asiyah. (p. 415).
The Mitteler Rebbe quoted the Alter Rebbe: "Ahavat Yisrael must possess one to the very core of life itself." [1]
Notes:
Ad Mitsui Hanefesh.
identical phrase is used by the Sages (Sifri, Devarim 6:5) to describe the required degree of loving G-d, "...with all your soul etc...," i.e. up to, and including, readiness to give up one's life.