When you want to come up with new ideas in the Torah, you must concentrate on one particular subject. Take a verse or a matter and review it many times, hammering on the door until it is opened for you.
Sometimes a thought flashes through your mind and then it escapes. You must be a man of valor, pursuing it until it is recaptured.85This was said on the coach on the way to Tcherin for Shabbat Shirah. The lesson delivered on that Shabbat is cited in Likutey Moharan I, 192. Assuming that the lessons follow some chronological order, the year can be given as 5565/1805. The exact date of Shabbat Shirah was 12 Shevat 5565 (January 12, 1805).
כְּשֶׁחוֹשְׁבִין תּוֹרָה, צָרִיךְ לִהְיוֹת חוֹשֵׁב הַדְּבַר תּוֹרָה שֶׁרוֹצֶה לְחַדֵּשׁ בָּהּ – לַחֲשֹׁב וְלַחֲזֹר בְּמַחֲשַׁבְתּוֹ אוֹתוֹ הַפָּסוּק אוֹ אוֹתוֹ הָעִנְיָן כַּמָּה וְכַמָּה פְּעָמִים הַרְבֵּה מְאֹד, וְלִהְיוֹת נוֹקֵשׁ וְדוֹפֵק עַל הַפֶּתַח עַד שֶׁיִּפְתְּחוּ לוֹ.
When you want to come up with new ideas in the Torah, you must concentrate on one particular subject. Take a verse or a matter and review it many times, hammering on the door until it is opened for you.
יֵשׁ דָּבָר שֶׁפּוֹרֵחַ בַּמַּחֲשָׁבָה, כְּמוֹ זְרִיקָה. וְאַחַר־כָּךְ פּוֹרֵחַ מֵהַמַּחֲשָׁבָה, וְצָרִיךְ שֶׁיִּהְיֶה לָזֶה בְּרִיָּה וְאִישׁ חַיִל כַּנַּ"ל, לִרְדֹּף וְלָרוּץ אַחֲרֶיהָ לְהַשִּׂיגָהּ.
Sometimes a thought flashes through your mind and then it escapes. You must be a man of valor, pursuing it until it is recaptured.85This was said on the coach on the way to Tcherin for Shabbat Shirah. The lesson delivered on that Shabbat is cited in Likutey Moharan I, 192. Assuming that the lessons follow some chronological order, the year can be given as 5565/1805. The exact date of Shabbat Shirah was 12 Shevat 5565 (January 12, 1805).