0470 - Answer to a Question Asked by Those that Worked on Lekutei Sichos

00:01 In Likutei Sichos Chelek Yud Daled page one forty-one, the Rebbe quotes from the Rashi where it says, Rashi quotes these three words: zocher, shomer, and holech. Zocher is to remember, shomer is to watch, to keep, and holech is to walk, to go. And the Rebbe writes there that zikaron, zocher, which is zikaron, this inyan of remembering, is bemehech hasikaron. It's in the brain of remembering, which refers to chochma. Ubecholol, generally it goes on chabad shebenefesh ha'adam. It goes on the inyan of chabad and intellect. So zocher represents the intellect. Shomer he says, it says shmirah belev. That shmirah when it says shomer it goes on the heart and it says bino libo, which becholol is the middas shemekayem et halev goes on the middas. So shomer goes on middas and the emotions. And holech, which usually you go with the foot, that's kein ha'asiyah. That's the lowest of all keichah, the keichah ha'ma'aseh, the keichah of action. That's what the Rebbe says. When he says that shmirah shomer is belev, means in the heart, and the Rebbe says it means middas, there's a Maaréh Mekom on the bottom, Ha'arah thirty-three: "Ra'ei Toras Kohanim Bechukosai korov litchilasa." Look into Toras Kohanim parashas Bechukosai close to the beginning. And there it says the lashon that shomer is belev. So the Maaréh Mekom that shmirah is belev, shmirah is in the heart, and the Rebbe teaches us it means middas, it's like it written there it says shmirah is belev. But those that were working on the Sichos

01:29 wrote to the Rebbe a shailah because when you look in the lashon of the Toras Kohanim it seems a little bit different. The Toras Kohanim says like this, quotes the pasuk, "Zocher et yom ha'shabbas lekadshei," remember the day of Shabbos to make it holy. So the Toras Kohanim says, "Yocher belibcha." I would think it means to remember it in your heart. "Keshe'oimer," but because the pasuk says shomer, "Ad shmiras lev amura." When it says shomer already, so remembering it in the heart is already said. "Hama nimekayem zocher?" So what does the word zocher mean? "She'tihiyeh she'onedah beficha." You should say it in your mouth, which means bedibur, to speak. Now if you learn a simple pshat in the Toras Kohanim, it seems that when it says shmirah is belev, that shomer is in the heart, it doesn't mean the middas. It means machshavah. It means in your mind. So you have the two things. Shomer is in your mind, and zocher is beficha means bedibur, to say it. But it doesn't seem that here it means that shomer belev means middas like the Rebbe says in the Sicha. So he asks the Rebbe that from Toras Kohanim that the Rebbe quotes as the makom that shomer is middas because it says shomer belev, but here it seems that it's in contrast to machshavah and dibur, that we're talking about this being machshavah rather than being middas. And on this inyan all the Rebbe did was he circled around the words where they quote that shmiras

02:48 lev amura, that shomer means belev, and he wrote these, these two words, eid inyan. This is another inyan. That's all he wrote. What it seems to be, everyone can learn their own pshat, seems to be what he was saying that we're learning that since it says the other one is bedibur, that zocher is bepeh, bedibur, bemeheleh shomer means bemachshavah, so when it says shmirah belev it means machshavah, the Rebbe says it's not like that. It's a different inyan. Shomer belev means like a middas, and then there's another inyan that zocher should be bedibur, and shmiras lev is a separate inyan. Shmiras lev means the middas. It's not like machshavah and dibur, but it's middas and dibur. Now maybe this is not the pshat, but this is what it seems to be the pshat.