Likutay Moharan - Torah-teaching 214

214 - In the first generations when they knew the day of their death

In the first generations when they knew the day of their death they were occupied in the Torah all the day and there was no dominion to the accuser over them, and now we find people who died in the middle of their study, know that if the study is proper, certainly he has no strength but if the study is not proper, in particular study of Gemara if the study is not proper then he receives more strength from the study because Talmud in gematria letters of the name Lilith, therefore there is strength in study of the Talmud either to subdue her, or to the opposite, G-d forbid.