Teachings of the Sages – 17th Tammuz, 5769

 

Teachings of the Sages – 17th Tammuz, 5769

Two Tzadiks

ON PRAYER

“The colleague-student of the Besht, R. Pinchas of Korets …, … prayed at dawn, preferring to offer his devotions ‘before the world is filled with foolishness and vanity’”.*

*Rabi Pinhas mi-Korits: hayav, pe’ulotav ve-torato, by M.Y. Gutman, p. 6 (A), cited in Torah Lishmah: Torah for Torah’s Sake—in the Works of Rabbi Hayyim of Volozhin and His Contemporaries, by Norman Lamm, p. 42 (B)

By Rebbe Pinchas of Koretz

Source: Two Tzaddiks

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