Faith, Spirit, Bacteria, and Demons

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I would say just as blessed memory revealed that a person is surrounded play tens of thousands of demons, animals can see them, the humans cannot because if they would be able to see them they would go mad. The words of ever holy sages are absolute truth and need no outside corroboration for vindication. Even still we can make their words more real to us by seeing how natural they are. That's we can point out that everyone knows today how there are millions of bacteria everywhere, and it is very readily understood that every living organism has a spiritual force behind it, and thus it is all that much clearer to us the words of our holy Sages that they are all these spiritual entities surrounding us.
This post was inspired by an article I just saw of how even when we are sleeping the bacteria abound on our flesh and faces and proliferate, fancy that. This drove home extreme warning of our holy Sages of the importance of Krias Shima Al Hameetu - the recital of the Shema and prayers before going to sleep which destroy all the damaging and avenging spiritual entities, fancy what that does to all those bacteria.
Rabbi Nussun once had to explain to a skeptic the words of our holy Sages that the worms that eat a corpse are as painful as a needle puncturing live skin, explain the concept of kista dichayee - the residue you of life which remains in the bones and thus even the skeptic can understand how a corpse can feel pain. One of Rabbi Nussun's disciples overheard the conversation and antiques cleaned in wonderment how unbelievable the explanation was and until now it is so well understood. Rabbi Nusson was furious with him, he told him all this I explained to the skeptic who doubted the words of our holy Sages and needed this, but anyone who has believed accepts the words of the sages as iron-clad absolute truth that need no confirmation and on the contrary confirmations just detract from their power and veracity.
Na Nach Nachma Nachman Meuman

Know the Enemy

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Imagine you are hit with an onslaught of lust which drives you to the edge, and then you discover that it is your itzy bitzy nerd neighbor who is doing voodoo and all types of black magic on you GF. You would no longer feel so helplessly overcome and inundated, you would take it in stride and you wouldn't allow yourself to be knocked out of control into the degradation of bodily desires simply because some imbecile wishes your downfall. To a certain decree many of our trials and tribulations are instigated by lowly evil spiritual forces that seek our detriment. Big tzadikim would be very aware of who and what was confronting them and would name them aloud and battle them precisely with holy incantations and so forth. This is something we can't even begin to do, even if we would get lucky here and there, that would just open us up GF to much worse GF. Even still we must bear this in mind, that lowliness of the forces seeking our downfall, seeking to slump us into depression, sin, and even self abuse GF, and to register this strong in our faculties that there is no reason why we should let such a lowly thing dominate us or issue us any inconveniences whatsoever. The prayer of the high priest Rabbi Yishmuel gives a few paragraphs of invective to put such lowly evil forces in their place. Ultimately however everything is exactly how HY wants it for us, so that we have free choice, and without Divine help and intervention we can not surmount the new attacks of the evil forces which charge us.

Amazingly two years later to the day I found myself writing again on this vein: https://naanaach.blogspot.com/2020/02/fight-back.html

Na Nach Nachma Nachman MeUman!

What demons? The Rambam paskened that they do not exist!

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Last night at the Rambam's shrine, in honor of his hilula, we had a little snack as is customary, and in our little get together we talked of a certain Nanach who had done some major segufim (self flagellation) until he began to see some of the demons that accompany people, and he began to refuse to have any dealings therefore with many people. In the middle of this one of the Nanach pointed out that the Rambam wrote that there are no such thing as demons! So I told them what is said in the name of the Vilna Gaon that obviously the Rambam did not deny the existence of demons, what he wrote was a halachic edict, a halacha of the revealed Torah to establish that no demon could have any appearance or status in the revealed world. So in the merit of the Rambam may our friend be spared the visions of the demons....

Na Nach Nachma Nachman MeUman!

Get Revenge!!!

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Have you ever wished you could get revenge against the demons that drove you crazy, driving you to lusts and desires that pushed you to the brink?!

So Rabbi Nachman says, for sure! Go for it! Water the trees! Spread the holy message of Na Nach Nachma Nachman MeUman! This is cataclysmic demolishing and punishment for the demons, it wipes them out!

Na Nach Nachma Nachman MeUman!

Difference between 49 levels of tuma and 50

HH our Sages revealed that in Egypt the Jews sunk to 49th level of impurity and had they been there just a bit longer they would have hit 50 and it would have been over. But now that we have been given the Torah we have the ability to survive even the 50th and that in fact is where we are.

Possibly the 49 is what the Egyptians were completely living the occult of black magic and demons and the like. This created an atmosphere of complete evil. Even still, that itself could be determined - that it was their own invention and creation. The 50th is when the evil is not based on demons and the like but science and philosophy which explain everything in the universe establishing heresy as the defining power of the universe. The Egyptians couldn't do this, their evil little souls didn't have the breadth to build that system, but they set the stage for the Jews to develop it. So HY had to hasten the redemption before the Jews would bring the occult of the 49 to the utter heresy of the 50th.
Since the Torah is the blueprint of the world, no science or philosophy can successfuly dominate in its presence, the sciences are slaves to the blueprint.
Even still it is very challenging. Science and philosophy has crept into our thinking, the way we think about things and how we associate our knowledge and understanding of what goes on around us. Someone completely enveloped in the Torah would be protected but for a few hundred years already almost no one had the the strength and ability to do that.
Rabbainu's teaching are the utter antedote. Because Rabbainu shows the roots of the Torah, and he shows where the heresy of the scientists and philosophers are rooted, where they are leeching from, whether it is from the Vacated Space or the Fallen Broken Letters, and so forth.
Even still, as we fell even deeper, and became completely enveloped in the 50th - the Vacated Space which G-d Himself chose not to be seen or realized, even the holy powerful teachings of Rabbainu are insufficient and can not dissipate the forces of heresy, the Vacated Space is powered by G-d Almighty, no system of holiness can be supported. There is only one thing that can overcome the VS, and that Rabbainu started to reveal in Likutay Moharan, is the song of the true tzaddik. The song is known to the Jewish soul, that is why all the children of Abraham are called Ivrim, because they can leap over the VS, but this is only the soul - subconscious level. The tzaddiks song actually peerces through the VS and rescues the souls caught there, injecting them with the Emuna - faith the antithesis of the VS. This is in LKM, but it is also only on a soul- subconscious level, only in the holy Petek did Rabbainu come straight out and reveal the holy song of the tzaddik. Na Nach Nachma Nachman Me'Uman.