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Torah
A thought for every day of the Hebrew year, from the Rebbe’s book. It is the same entry every year, on the same Hebrew date.
18 Av 5786
The Mitteler Rebbe quoted the Alter Rebbe: Ahavat yisrael must consume a person entirely.[1]
Compiled and arranged by the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, of righteous memory, in 5703 (1943) from the talks and letters of the sixth Chabad Rebbe, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn, of righteous memory.
Ad mitsui hanefesh. The identical phrase is used by the Sages (Sifri, Devarim 6:5) to describe the required degree of loving G‑d, "...with all your soul etc...," i.e. up to, and including, readiness to give up one's life.
Footnotes
אדמו"ר [אדוננו מורנו ורבנו] האמצעי אמר בשם רבינו הזקן: אהבת ישראל בעדארף דערנעמען ביז מיצוי הנפש.
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Hayom Yom, compiled and arranged by the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, of righteous memory, in 5703 (1943) from the talks and letters of the sixth Chabad Rebbe, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn, of righteous memory. Text from chabad.org.