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== Content of the Kuntres ==

The sefer deals with practical guidance for a baal teshuvah in their conduct. In his holy letter about the sefer, the Frierdiker Rebbe writes that "the subject and content of the twenty-eight chapters of the sefer Pokeach Ivrim is detailed, like a collection from various places in the sefer Derech Chaim – the third section from Shaar HaTeshuvah V'HaTefillah."

The sefer deals with practical guidance for a [[Baal Teshuva|baal teshuvah]] in their conduct. In his holy letter about the sefer, the Frierdiker Rebbe writes that "the subject and content of the twenty-eight chapters of the sefer Pokeach Ivrim is detailed, like a collection from various places in the sefer Derech Chaim – the third section from Shaar HaTeshuvah V'HaTefillah."

In that same letter, [[The Rebbe Rayatz|the Frierdiker Rebbe]] relates at length the story of the baal teshuvah R' Shlomo Leib, whom the chossid R' Yosef of Beshenkowitz was involved in bringing closer to Yiddishkeit, after becoming a wagon driver under special instruction from the Alter Rebbe specifically so that this would lead to R' Shlomo Leib's return to teshuvah. According to the details of the story, the Frierdiker Rebbe explains that it appears the Mitteler Rebbe wrote the Kuntres Pokeach Ivrim for him, which is also the reason for writing the kuntres in the spoken language of that time - Yiddish.

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== About the Kuntres ==

In a letter to a bochur who complained that he "does not get inspired from his learning and his tefillos", the Rebbe responded that he should learn Kuntres Pokeach Ivrim "which was also translated into Lashon Hakodesh and is by the Mitteler Rebbe, son of the Alter Rebbe, author of the Tanya and Shulchan Aruch, which is surely found by the administration of Yeshivas Tomchei Tmimim in ~~Bruna~~, and he will see there several reasons why his body and animal soul are not moved by the learning and davening and it is in his power to fix them."

In a letter to a bochur who complained that he "does not get inspired from his learning and his tefillos", the Rebbe responded that he should learn Kuntres Pokeach Ivrim "which was also translated into Lashon Hakodesh and is by the Mitteler Rebbe, son of the Alter Rebbe, author of the Tanya and Shulchan Aruch, which is surely found by the administration of [[Tomchei Tmimim Brunoy|Yeshivas Tomchei Tmimim in Bronuy]], and he will see there several reasons why his body and animal soul are not moved by the learning and davening and it is in his power to fix them."

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 == Content of the Kuntres ==
-The sefer deals with practical guidance for a baal teshuvah in their conduct. In his holy letter about the sefer, the Frierdiker Rebbe writes that "the subject and content of the twenty-eight chapters of the sefer Pokeach Ivrim is detailed, like a collection from various places in the sefer Derech Chaim – the third section from Shaar HaTeshuvah V'HaTefillah."
+The sefer deals with practical guidance for a [[Baal Teshuva|baal teshuvah]] in their conduct. In his holy letter about the sefer, the Frierdiker Rebbe writes that "the subject and content of the twenty-eight chapters of the sefer Pokeach Ivrim is detailed, like a collection from various places in the sefer Derech Chaim – the third section from Shaar HaTeshuvah V'HaTefillah."
 In that same letter, [[The Rebbe Rayatz|the Frierdiker Rebbe]] relates at length the story of the baal teshuvah R' Shlomo Leib, whom the chossid R' Yosef of Beshenkowitz was involved in bringing closer to Yiddishkeit, after becoming a wagon driver under special instruction from the Alter Rebbe specifically so that this would lead to R' Shlomo Leib's return to teshuvah. According to the details of the story, the Frierdiker Rebbe explains that it appears the Mitteler Rebbe wrote the Kuntres Pokeach Ivrim for him, which is also the reason for writing the kuntres in the spoken language of that time - Yiddish.
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 == About the Kuntres ==
-In a letter to a bochur who complained that he "does not get inspired from his learning and his tefillos", the Rebbe responded that he should learn Kuntres Pokeach Ivrim "which was also translated into Lashon Hakodesh and is by the Mitteler Rebbe, son of the Alter Rebbe, author of the Tanya and Shulchan Aruch, which is surely found by the administration of Yeshivas Tomchei Tmimim in Bruna, and he will see there several reasons why his body and animal soul are not moved by the learning and davening and it is in his power to fix them."
+In a letter to a bochur who complained that he "does not get inspired from his learning and his tefillos", the Rebbe responded that he should learn Kuntres Pokeach Ivrim "which was also translated into Lashon Hakodesh and is by the Mitteler Rebbe, son of the Alter Rebbe, author of the Tanya and Shulchan Aruch, which is surely found by the administration of [[Tomchei Tmimim Brunoy|Yeshivas Tomchei Tmimim in Bronuy]], and he will see there several reasons why his body and animal soul are not moved by the learning and davening and it is in his power to fix them."