Chasidut על פאה 1:1

Indeed the awareness of your enjoyment is as we have described, but there is more to it. There are reasons behind your enjoyment, and these reasons are unknown to you. Similarly, this enjoyment that you are aware of, the satisfaction of victory, is rooted in something unknown to you. A portion of your soul has stripped away a polluted garment of evil hisragshus, and you have now gained the revelation of this portion of your soul. The secret reason behind your newly found enjoyment is the closeness to kedushah that your perseverance has afforded you. Yes, it has brought you closer, but be aware that you have come closer to the kedushah that exists within yourself. You have come closer to your soul. Consider how far away you had been, and the great step you now took to come back. You took an awakening of desire within you and used it to reveal a portion of your soul rooted in the face of the ox on God’s holy chariot, now revealed free of the evil garment. Therefore, dear Bachur and Avreich, if you truly want to take good care of your soul and be a baal nefesh, then don’t wait any longer and seize the opportunity. Take this revelation and awakening of your soul and use it in the same way that you did with the first and second kinds mentioned above, namely expanding the revelation and pouring it into a mitzvah or Torah study, which is equal to them all.²⁰⁴Peah, 1:1 see birchas haTorah. “Talmud Torah cneged culam” meaning that every form of Torah study assists and expands the revelation of the soul and aids in the rectification of desire. And it shall be well with you.²⁰⁵“ve’tov lach,” See Tehillim 128:2, “You shall eat the work of your hands; happy shall you be, and it shall be well with you.” The Talmud notes, “happy shall you be – in this world, and it shall be well with you – in the world to come.” Which means for our context that such inner work, the rectification of desire and the revelation of the soul as expanded by Torah and mitzvos will benefit the health and strength of man’s soul in the world to come.