QUESTION:
It seems to me that the Rav’s sefarim are based on teachings primarily found in both Breslev and Chabad. Is this the intention of the Rav’s approach in the “Bilvavi” sefarim to integrate those two approaches together, and is such an approach found in any other sefarim?
ANSWER:
The approach [of the “Bilvavi” sefarim] is to synthesize every way of avodas Hashem together. It is based on the illumination found in the End of Days in which everything is coming together, which mimics the concept of Dan, who is found at the “end” of the camp and whose role is to “gather together all of the camps”. Even more so, the intention [of the approach in the Bilvavi sefarim] is to reveal the intrinsic, unchanging essence (etzem), which is the power of the tribe of Yehudah, and to integrate together Dan (gathering together all the ways of serving Hashem) and Yehudah (revealing the unchanging reality of Hashem), because that was the idea of the Mishkan (Tabernacle), which was made through Yehudah and Dan
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