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Pharaoh of the Wizards (talk) 06:15, 29 December 2009 (UTC)
"Essence and Being placed into a body"
On the Elazar Shach page (http://en.wikipedia.org/Elazar_Shach), you added:
This concept is mentioned often in the classic Kaballistic and Chassidic texts, such as Pardes Rimonim 16:6 and 22:3 by Rabbi Moshe Cordovero, Zohar-2 38a, and Zohar-3 79b, and Sefer Tanya ch. 22 & 23. See also Zohar-1 9a, Zohar-2 163b, Mechilta on Exodus 18, Bereishit Rabba 63 & 86, Tanchuma Tissa 27, and the well-known Chassidic principle ascribing fundamentally the same status to the soul of any Jew, as elaborated on by R. SZ of Liadi in Tanya ch.2.
Do these sources specify that there talking about "atzmus u'mahus" itself?
Yonoson3 (talk) 20:50, 29 December 2009 (UTC)
I'm traveling now, and don't have access to my seforim, however, those sources I quoted that I did manage to check via copies of their respective texts that I found online, various tzadikim are alternately referred to as "shechinta" "hashem" "pnei ha'odon hashem" and "e-l". The reference made by the LR re. "atzmus umehus" was simply a mention of this unique status accorded to a rebbe/tzaddik/nossi etc. (IIRC, in the Baal haTanya's 'likkutei torah' he uses the same term, but I couldn't pull up that text online.) Were said mention to have been made in context of a discussion of different levels of Gdliness, the specific choice of term may have been material - but in this case it slearly was not. Interestingly, this concept is rarely mentioned in chabad texts, compared to the frequent mention of same in seforim like the Noam Elimelech etc. See also Rashi on the passuk "vayikra lo kel elokei yisroel..."