Likutay Moharan - Torah-teaching 262

262 - Through renewal of the Torah rivers are made

Know that through renewal of the Torah [new Torah insights] rivers are made because when begins to renew in Torah, then begins to gush spring in aspect of "And a spring from house of Hashem will go out" [Joel 4:18] that is the intellect as written "In wisdom a house is built" [Proverbs 24:3]. And this spring at first it is narrow and small and after that widens and spreads more and more, until that rivers are made from it. And all come to drink from these rivers. Therefore who wants to renew innovations of Torah that have substance he needs to cry beforehand because when rivers the above are made and all come to drink from them then also klipot [shells, forces of impurity] and other side, G-d forbid, will come to drink also from there. Therefore needs to cry beforehand. And then makes through the crying rivers, in aspect of "From weeping rivers bound" [Job 28:11] (see Rashi there [interpreting as rivers stopped or bound by weeping]). That through the crying repairs rivers and from there drink their sufficiency all the klipot and other side. And after that when makes rivers from innovations of Torah that he renews after that then he can to draw them only to places that need, that strangers not drink from it. And therefore the composition the laws and the innovations is called tractate this aspect of "And my drink with weeping I mingled" [Psalms 102:10], that needs to mingle the drink with weeping, because needs to cry beforehand as above. And this aspect of "On rivers of Babylon there we sat also wept" [Psalms 137:1] this aspect of Babylonian Talmud that is made near the yeshivot [academies] from which rivers are made as above also wept because needs to cry beforehand, in aspect of "And my drink with weeping I mingled" as above.