Likutay Moharan - Torah-teaching 145

Likutay Moharan 145

No Man Dies with Half (Etc.)

[In the words of our Rebbe, of blessed memory:] No man dies with half (etc.) This is an aspect of controversy, as its Targum states: "And they became owners of arrows" [Genesis 49:23]—owners of division.

And one who holds his desire back from controversy is certainly as if he did not die, as David requested: "I will dwell in Your tent forever" [Jerusalem Talmud, Shekalim 2].

Is it possible to dwell in two worlds? Rather, that they say a halachic matter in his name (this saying also appears in Babylonian Talmud Yevamot 96a, but in the Yerushalmi the version reads: "Did it enter David's mind that he would live and exist forever? But..."). It is clearer from this that through this saying he lives and exists forever and does not die.

And then it is as if he did not die. But through controversy, we find that they did not say halachah in their name like others, and some say (as our Rabbis of blessed memory said in Horayot 13b—see there).