Rabbi Hayim of Volozyne was the Gaon of Vilna scholar and inventor yeshivot ds their current principle (the study of the Torah is no longer reserved for those who have the financial means personally to not work).
Mystique, not a philosopher. His teaching, published ds this work is done when Hasidism emphasizes the intention, heart, and begins to affect the commandment to study Torah. But the scope of the book goes far beyond this historic setting.
Y is a flagship issue addressed: what responsibility the man he was, by his acts and intentions, ds maintenance of worlds? in other words, it is by his own action that Man ensures the presence of D in the world. The thesis is obviously based on solid textual references.
It is therefore necessary to rethink the relationship of responsibility.
it is obviously not wait for the salvation here, but to act. Rabbi HdV places the action in the form of religious practice in particular, above the intention (exple: Is prayer a matter of disposition of the heart, or practice that its recitation ds own active forces cosmic, that whether or not an ecstatic state ds?)
Action: daunting task indeed, but also great hope. There are more than!
The first portal includes a beautiful teaching about "the shadow of thy right hand." The ratio of D to H "as you are with Him, He is with you." This passage alone justifies reading this book.