Likutay Moharan - Volume 2 - Torah-teaching 105

He Should Strive to Study His Torah and See to Innovate Something

I heard from one that he cautioned him to strive to study his Torah and see to innovate something in his Torah [as he cautioned several of his people about this]. And he said to him: If you merit to align with the essence of my intention in my Torah, how good. And even if you cannot align with my intention, nevertheless, it is very good when one merits to innovate something in Torah, for it is a great repair for thoughts. For all thoughts come through the power of imagination, and through innovating something in Torah, which is the aspect of imagining one thing to another, through this one repairs the defect of thoughts that come through imagination. Also, I myself heard from his holy mouth several times that he greatly cautioned to innovate in Torah and said that it is a very, very great repair for the past. And he said that even one word alone, when one merits to innovate, is also very good, for it is a very great repair. Also, he said that it is a benefit for the soul of his ancestors who have already passed [see Zohar Shlach 171a, 174a, and Zohar Chadash Ruth].