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Travel:
- In the periods when the people ignore attempts to criticize them and
offer them spiritual guidance, the end result is exile, expulsion from the
lands they are living in, and bitter wandering (Likutey Moharan I, 22:1).
- Before going on a journey, one should give money to charity. Then nothing
will delay him or trouble him on the way (31:4).
- All the traveling a person has to do is because of flaws in his faith
in God. Such flaws are actually a form of idolatry. At times traveling can
be a tikkun for these flaws, and this removes the force of anger from the
world and draws down the influence of love (40).
- Neglect of Torah causes exile (Ibid.).
- A person may spend his life as a `fugitive and a wanderer' (Genesis
4:14) and at times he may come to places which are very far from God the
homes of the wicked, or even the homes of heathens. Even so a Jew has the
power to elevate all these places to God. He should simply do his part and
bring himself as close as he can to God regardless of where he may be (II,
76).
- When a person has heart there is nowhere that presents an insufferable
barrier against his serving God. It is no excuse to say that in a certain
place the barriers are so great that it is impossible to serve God. When
a person has a heart, all the places in the entire world are his (56).
- Whenever you are on a journey, make sure that you go to the mikveh.
The mikveh has the power to save us from murder (Chayey Moharan, Avodat Hashem
30).
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