Parable of the dripping water on stone and parable of little flame on glass

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In Avos DiR' Nussun chapter 6 we learn that Rabbi Akiva drew great encouragement and hope from seeing how drops of water wore down stone - certainly words of Torah which is likened to iron can reach and mold his heart.

If you put a small flame to glass, the heat accumulates until the glass explodes. So keep pouring out holy words of prayer and Torah, eventually they accumulate and you will be on fire.

Na Nach Nachma Nachman MayUman

Parables of this world

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When you need to bring a big piece of furniture into a house or room it won't fit in through the doorway, and it is necessary to first dismantle the item and then rebuild it inside. Same thing with holiness, when one approaches the gates of holiness, there is no way he can simply enter with vessels he has prepared, he must first totally abnegate himself, only then can he slip inside and begin to rebuild in the new holy atmosphere.

This world is like a big mountain climb, and the leader of the group helps each and every one make the trek and ascend to the top. The climb is hard enough as it is, and having to shoulder all the gear and whatnot compounds the complexity and makes things extremely more difficult. So the group leader will step in and carry that cumbersome weight for them. That is part of what the tzadik does for us.

Intellectual property

Every Jew has their own face of the Torah – everything he learns is his own unique take, therefore no Jew encroaches upon another's potion of the Torah. However, a gentile who learns the Torah is stealing or even worse, for he doesn't have a portion of the Torah, and his learning is invasive and he is squatting on property that is not his.

Na Nach Nachma Nachman MeUman!

Thank Gd we are the victims

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Attributed to Rabbi Chaim Brisker (I think), there are two types of zealots, the man of the house and the cat both hunt down the mice in the house, but the man of the house wishes they were not there to begin with, and ‫the cat desires that there​ should be more and more mice.

The Ramchal in Daas Tevunos reveals the system that Hashem Yisburach enacted in creation to reveal His Unity in cumulative levels against the backdrop of divergence. This introduces a higher aspiration then the zealously coveted by Rabbi Chaim Brisker, not to simply desire that there should be no impurity, but rather to realize purity in the face of all the impurity. This concept is also found in the Legendary Tales of Rabbi Nachman,   in the story of The Humble King, where the wise man recounts to the king all the evils and the atrocitiess in his kingdom turning them around to such high praise and exaltation of the king that the king reveals himself.

Similarly, in the blessings of the morning there are three blessings on cumulative privileges based not on the actual privelege but on the elevation from the lower level.

The story is told of a holy rabbi who prepared his congregation for the approaching Nazis by telling them how fortunate they were that they were chosen to be the victims and not the perpetrators.

In the prayers we bless Gd for creating us for His glory and separating us from those who go astray. This is our merit and privilege to stand at the helm and do what we can to help others and fix the world. Even a society such as Sodom that fosters ten righteous people is demonstrative of the greatness of Gd and has merit to continue, as long as the true tzaddik is actively looking out and praying for them, and that is what we must do now.

Na Nach Nachma Nachman Me'Uman