Monday Cheshvan 17 5704
Chumash: Chayei Sara, Sheini with Rashi.
Tehillim: 83-87.
Tanya: Now, it is (p. 573)...waters of lustration... (p. 575).
Time must be guarded.
It is urgent to "accept the yoke of Torah."
Every bit of time, every day that passes, is not just a day but a life's concern.
Days go by; as the Talmud says (Yerushalmi Berachot 1:1), "A day enters and a day departs, a week enters etc.,... a month etc.,... a year etc.,..."
My father quoted the Alter Rebbe: "A summer day and a winter night are a year.