Likutei Moharan 245:1/ליקוטי מוהר"ן רמ״ה:א׳

1Know! there are chambers of Torah. When someone who is worthy of them begins to innovate in Torah, he enters these chambers and passes from chamber to chamber and from chamber to chamber. For in each and every chamber there are any number of entrances to other chambers; and from these other chambers, as well, to other chambers. He enters and strolls about in all of them, gathering from there treasures and exceedingly precious and delightful trove. Fortunate is his lot.

2Know, however, that a person has to be very careful not to fool himself, for one does not quickly merit this. The reason is that there are numerous innovations that do not come from there, but rather from the Chamber of Exchanges, because “God made one to contrast the other” (Ecclesiastes 7:14). And even though it may seem to the person to be a very lofty insight, nonetheless, there, too, there are beautiful innovations that appear to be insights.

3In this, as well, there are many aspects. For example, when people write the word adam (human being), they know it refers to the human form. Yet, it is nothing more than a mere hint, because the writing contains nothing of the human form. There are also those who draw a picture of a human being on paper, in which case the human form is somewhat more apparent. And there are those who carve a human form out of wood, in which case the human is even further manifest. Even so, this is still not a real human being. Only the person himself is a bona fide adam.

4Likewise, there are many Torah innovations that are merely like a notebook, like just writing the word adam. For the Torah is the aspect of adam, as it is written, “This is the Torah: adam” (Numbers 19:14). There is also someone who goes deeper than that, but even so this is not adam, as explained above. Only when one is worthy of the Torah itself—this is the bona fide aspect of adam.

5This is the explanation of “This is the Torah: adam .” Specifically “This is the Torah”—i.e., only this genuine Torah is the aspect of adam.