Likutei Moharan, Part II 5:19/ליקוטי מוהר"ן·תנינא ה׳:י״ט

119. This relates above, to the verse: “I will have mercy on them [the way a man has mercy on his son who serves him].”

2It is truly a very great thing to discard all one’s sophisticated ideas and conduct oneself with simplicity, serving like a slave in order to serve God with purity, without any sophisticated ideas. This relates to the mysteries of Torah, in which the Torah is hidden and concealed. In actual fact, the simple acts one performs certainly contain very exalted Torah, though this is not known. It follows, that the Torah they contain is hidden and concealed—i.e., the concept of Torah mysteries.

3{“How lovely are your steps in sandals, O daughter of nobility! Your rounded thighs are like chala’im (ornaments), the work of a master’ s hand” (Song of Songs 7:2) .} The Torah’s mysteries are “your rounded thighs”—just as the thigh is kept concealed, so too, the words of Torah are kept concealed, as our Sages, of blessed memory, taught (Sukkah 49b). This is the rectification of mishpat, as in “your rounded thighs are like ChaLa’im”—these are the shitin (caverns), which are meChoLaLin (hollow) and descend to the depths (as our Sages, of blessed memory, taught in Sukkah 49a). This is as in “Your mishpat, a great deep” (Psalms 36:7)—i.e., mishpat, which has fallen to the depths.

4But by means of the aforementioned acts of service—which are Torah mysteries/“your rounded thighs”/the shitin, which are hollow down to the depths—they break through, descending to the depths and raising the mishpat from its fall, from “Your mishpat, a great deep.”

5This is as in “Deep calls to deep” (Psalms 42:8), and as our Sages, of blessed memory, expounded: When the water libations are poured during the festival, one deep says to another, “Let your waters gush forth” (Taanit 25b). In other words, the deeps call to one another to return the mishpat that has fallen to them. This is so that the mishpat might be restored and rectified, as in “Let mishpat well up like water.”

6This is the meaning of “Let your waters gush forth,” as in “Let mishpat well up like water.” In other words, they should gush forth and return the mishpat that has fallen to them, so that it might be rectified, as in “Let mishpat well up like water.” It follows, that performing deeds and acts of service with simplicity rectifies mishpat.