A vort from the Rebbe on this week's parshah, Parshat Yitro. In Parshat Yitro, the pasuk says, ויהי ממחרת, it was the day after, וישב משה לשפוט את העם, משה sat down to judge the people, and what it really means that he sat down to teach them the Torah, to judge them and tell them what the derech of Torah is.

And the Rebbe explains this Rashi, which means this idea, that this was the day after Yom Kippur, and Moshe sat down to teach them and learn with them the Torah, the Rebbe explained it בדרך הרמז. We know the famous story that the Frierdiker Rebbe once entered his father's office on the day after Yom Kippur, and he asked his father, the Rebbe Rashab, vos itzt? What now? In other words, we already passed Yom Kippur, so we did the whole avodah of Rosh Hashanah, עשרת ימי תשובה, Yom Kippur, Hashem forgave us for all the aveirot, so what's the avodah now? And the Rebbe Rashab answered him, itzt darf men ersht teshuvah ton, now we first have to do teshuvah. Which means, in simple words, now we got to continue and go even higher. As great as we are and as high as we reached, we have to continue now. So, after Yom Kippur, when we reached the highest of the heights, we have to now first do teshuvah means continue in a higher way. So the Rebbe says, this is the remez in Rashi: ויהי ממחרת, it was the day after, Rashi says it was the day after Yom Kippur. What happened the day after Yom Kippur? The pasuk says, וישב משה לשפוט את העם, משה sat down to judge the people, to teach them Torah. To teach you that even though it was after Yom Kippur, so Yom Kippur passed and there was very high madregot of Yom Kippur, we still got to go higher and higher, which the lesson from here is that we never could stop. As great as we are and as high as we reach, we have to always try to go higher. That's the lashon, in Gemara it says tzadikim or תלמידי חכמים אין להם מנוחה, the צדיקים, תלמידי חכמים don't have a rest, they always go higher and higher, like it says, ילכו מחיל אל חיל, they go from strength to strength, you can't stop. As it's known, the Rebbe also taytsh't in a different sichah, the פשט, מי יעלה בהר השם ומי יקום במקום קדשו, the pasuk says, which means, who could go up in the mountain of Hashem? Who could stand there? And the Rebbe says it means that when you climb a mountain, a steep mountain, you can't stop. You could go higher and higher and higher, but if you stop, chas veshalom you could fall. The only way you're sure not to fall is you go even higher. That's the taytsh, מי יעלה בהר השם, who could go up, ומי יקום, the ikar is that you should stand there.

So, from here we see this idea that you constantly have to go higher and higher. And that's the remez here that even after Yom Kippur, you have to go higher, never stop in your avodat Hashem, always have to try to reach higher than you were before, as great as you were.