Yüreğe İşleyen Öğüt: Bir Kabalistin Vasiyeti

I speak words of understanding to bless the Lord: may my sons, my daughters, my sons-in-law, my daughters-in-law, my grandchildren, and their descendants forever be blessed. May the Lord increase you a thousandfold. I compose for you an ethical reproof, as a man disciplines his son, for it is time for me to speak now that I am preparing to depart from them to find rest, with the help of God, in the Holy Land. Happy are those whose way is blameless, who walk in the law of the Lord. For behold, I have contemplated creating for every ethical teaching a connection to the words of Torah in length, breadth, and depth, so that it may enter more deeply into the heart. When the ethical lesson is adorned and illuminated by Torah, it enters the heart most effectively. These words of Torah, which are ethical instructions, bear fruit and leave an impression once they enter the heart. This study leads to action; thus, when an action comes to hand, one remembers the friend who taught it. This is hinted at in the verse, For the commandment is a lamp and the Torah is light; when it becomes a way of life, and a departing person is seen off with ethical reproof, that reproof becomes Torah light, and he merits the lamp of the commandment, for study leads to action.