היום יום

"A care in a man's heart, yash'chena."[1] Our sages offer[2] two interpretations of that last word: "Remove the care from the mind"[3] or "discuss it with others."[4]

The Tzemach Tzedek commented: "...with others" who are "others" only in the bodily sense, but are completely united with him, for they empathize with him.

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.

Mishlei 12:25.

Yoma 75a.

Reading yasichena, from the expression yasiach da'at "forget" or "turn one's mind away."

Reading yesichena, "talk," "discuss."

דאגה בלב איש ישחנה ואמרז"ל [ואמרו רבותינו זכרונם לברכה] שני פירושים: יסיחנה מדעתו, ישיחנה לאחרים. ופירש הצ"צ [הצמח צדק]: לאחרים רק בגוף, אבל מאוחדים אתו עמו, שמרגישים את ענינו.