Study of Zohar exalts the soul; study of Midrash arouses the heart; Tehillim (Psalms) with tears scours the vessel.

From the book Hayom Yom, From Day to Day, for Tuesday, 16 Tevet, 5765, which falls on December 28 this year, as said by the third grand rabbi of Lubavitch chassidim, the Tzemach Tzedek, to the chassid R. Hendel.