What does it take to qualify to be Nanach?

HH

This is an old question with many humorous answers [- check out this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVfdWMT0a28]. The bottom line, in my opinion is that being Nanach means that one completely understands and accepts Rabbi Nachman to be the first and final authority on every facet of life. There are those that argue that this attainable without believing in the holy petek, but in my opinion that is not possible.

To make it clear with a few fundamentals, being Nanach according to the above criteria, means not having any association with any contemporary rabbi, and it means that one is extremely active – or knows that he should be – in hafatza (dissemination of Rabbi Nachman's teachings). It means that the most important thing in his life, other than hafatza and Rabbainu himself (don't start saying Hashem, because this article is written on Hashem and with Hashem), is getting up to start the day at midnight, which is 6 hours after nightfall, and the highest devotion is hisbodidus, followed by learning Rabbainu's torah, and it would be ideal for him to be occupied the entire day just doing hisbodidus. When there is any issue or question, he isn't interested in anything but what Rabbainu has to say about it, and what he can clarify in hisbodidus.

Now there are those who claim that is possible to meet all the above and so forth, and not believe in the Petek, I don't think so, maybe such a person would not openly be Nanach, but ultimately he would believe in his heart. If it is possible, than obviously the person is not Nanach, and very very very very far from Nanach. Because the main thing is Rabbainu, and Rabbainu is Na Nach Nachma Nachman MeUman!

The entire redemption is contingent on Rabbainu and his name Na Nach Nachma Nachman MeUman!

The Nanach realizes this, that more than anything he can achieve or fathom, everything is dependent on Rabbainu and his name Na Nach Nachma Nachman MeUman!

That is why I am used to telling people, that the bottom line is, when you are Nanach, you will know it and say it, and until then hang in there. Nanach makes life very clear, everything falls in place.

Na Nach Nachma Nachman MeUman1

The Following - based on a fallacious creed exposed by Rabbi Nachman of Breslov!

HH
There is a movie - or TV series - "The Following" (sorry, I see now that it is 3 seasons, and I don't know which season or all of them this is attributed to, maybe someone can help out) which is based on a cult which follows a fallacious creed strikingly similar to what Rabbi Nachman of Breslov - Na Nach Nachma Nachman MeUman - exposed in his Legendary Stories of Ancient TImes, in the Story of the Prayer Leader, Rabbi Nachman recounted:

"One faction said that the main object is not honor, and they conceived that the main object is murder, for, 'We see that all the things that are found upon the earth – grasses, and all plants and people, and all that is in the whole world – must all ultimately cease to exist. Hence the very goal of all things is to be finished off (i.e. destroyed). Therefore, a murderer who kills and destroys people, is really bringing the world to its purpose.' Therefore they came to the conclusion that the goal is murder. They looked for a person who would be a murderer; an angry person and an extremely vengeful person, for such a person is closest to the purpose (according to their deluded mindset) and he deserves to be king. They went looking for such a person and they heard a shriek. They asked, 'What is this, such a screech?!'
"They replied to them, this shriek is: someone has slaughtered his father and mother.
"They spoke up, 'Where else can one find such a strong hearted and angry murderer, that he should murder his own father and mother? This man here (i.e. the one who killed (his) father and mother) has reached the purpose!' And they were very pleased with him, and they accepted him as (a) king over them. And they sought for themselves a country that causes (i.e. brings about) murder, and they chose a place among mountains where killers abide, and they went there and settled there with their king."

Amazing how in modern times the media really worked at resurrecting this creed...

Na Nach Nachma Nachman MeUman!