Yartzeit (anniversary of death) of Nachman Shabsai (Reuvain) ben Tzadok (who passed away this year) and Giula - post from 7/6/10

HH

**** there's a great picture of him on the Hebrew na-nach.net ****

At the azkara (remembrance) last night, some guy named Baruch told over a few stories about N”S.
Once there were a group of guys in Uman by Rabbainu and it was erev Pesach midday and they didn’t have anything for Pesach and they weren’t at all prepared either. The atmosphere was very depressing, until N”S walked in and promised them that they would have 100 kilo of meat, x amount of chickens, x kilos of Matzo etc., new clothing from head to foot etc.. This guy Baruch asserts that before sunset all had been fulfilled, he was there.
Baruch says that in that time period in Uman they often had very little food and N”S would always reassure them that all would be well.
Baruch also told over, I couldn’t hear so well but this is the upshot, that N”S promised him that he would get married that year, Baruch went through some difficult times, N”S came to him in a dream and told him because Baruch had believed him he would in fact get married that year, and so it happened . [it could be that N”S came to him in a dream after the engagement, and told him…].
Nachman Shabsai would frequently tell people, תחשוב טוב יהיה טוב – think good and it will be good.
Someone at my table told me a very typical and common story that happened with him. He was in Meron as his custom to go for 21 days every year for Lag BuOmer. N”S asked him if he could take him to the Maayan (spring) of Shmaya ViAvtalyon, this guy replied that he didn’t have a car, N”S told him don’t worry there will be a car, and just then someone pulled up and asked them if they wanted a ride to the Maayan.


Na Nach Nachma Nachman MayUman!

From the mouths of children

HH this little boy told me that he saw Rabbi Nachman twice, once when he was an infant, and later he saw him cleaning up (- Rabbainu said that he is a river that cleanses all stains...) with a broom (מטעטע)...
We said some Nanach together and I was infused with luscious holy laughter.
NNNNM!

Faith in Nanach

HH

Heard yesterday from Gavriel Levi Nanach. A.P. was praying, he was just about finished when he suddenly felt a desperate need to go to the bathroom, he quickly removed his tefilin and left them spread out on the table, and went to the bathroom, he returned immediately exclaiming how strange it was that in the end he didn't have to relieve himself at all. So our friend commenced to put on tefillin of Rabbainu Tam, and in the middle he once again felt a desperate need etc. and once again he returned quickly exclaiming how strange it was that he hadn't had to relieve himself at all.

Now he addressed the two sets of tefilin spread out on the table, they had just recently been painted over and it was very hard to differentiate between them, which were of Rashi and which were Rabbainu Tam. After much agonizing contemplation he said Na Nach Nachma Nachman MeUman and put together one pair and designated it as Rashi, and the other as Rabbainu Tam.

Not too much longer after (maybe a year) A.P. passed on the the World of Truth, there was some debate as to whom would receive his tefillin and one person received the Rashi and another the Rabbainu Tam. Afterwards they realized -- by discerning the threads of the Shel Rosh, that the pair designated as Rashi was in fact the Rabbainu Tam, and the Rabbainu Tam was really Rashi.

Shortly after this Asher Nanach in Los Angeles had a dream, and he called up Gavriel telling him that the Rashi tefilin were pussul! --- Comes out that A.P. by putting his faith in Nanach had saved himself from saying a non called for blessing every day (which is saying G-d's name in vane, which is likened to spilling seed GF), because he put them on as Rabbainu Tam, without a blessing. Saying a blessing on Rabbainu Tam is not a terrible grievance, and in fact some contend that the only reason why we don't make a blessing on them is because we are unworthy... -- but obviously this holy Nanach was!

Bring my sons from afar and my daughters from the ends of the land (Isiah 43:6 - Likutay Moharan Torah 30)

HH

This verse is brought down and expanded upon by Rabbainu in the Torah that I was learning, so no surprise when in the early evening a car pulls up all the way to my somewhat remote humble Azamra Nanach Shtiebel, and a couple with their child come searching for someone who can speak to them in English and tell them about Rabbi Nachman.

Can't take responsibility for complete accuracy and also I have to be brief B"H you should merit to hear the full amazing version.

The father is a chemical engineer who became an attorney, and they knew about nothing more than the fact that they are Jewish. They were living first in Brooklyn where a neighbor with a very large family was moving to Israel and gave the mother a box full of volumes of the holy Zohar, he told her that he discerned that she was special so he was leaving these holy books for her, and even though she couldn't read Hebrew she should spend time just gazing at the holy pages. She took him up on it. The  next year their daughter was born --- 14 years ago.

The mother (who is a direct descendant of the Noda BiYihuda, which she told when she was blown away when off the cuff I recounted Rabbainu's parable about the treasure under the bridge, and for some reason I added that the bridge was in Prague -- they had just been there, and now they found the treasure here NNNNM!!!) at one point began reading the Torah in English and the Zohar in English everynight at midnight. Once about 6 years ago while reading she reached out in heartfelt prayer to the Shechina and was answered personally, part of what she was told was to read the holy Zohar.

About 3 years ago the daughter started being visited in her dreams by a holy rabbi who identified himself as the dancing rabbi! The Rabbi told her that she should dance and do somersaults. The Rabbi also told her that she should go and live in Israel. Specifically the Rabbi came to her in her dreams on her birthday 3 years ago, and on every birthday since. So the girl persuaded her parents and they came to Israel for a month or 6 weeks. They were mainly in Jerusalem and it was uneventful. The next year they came again after the girls birthday and at the end of the visit they were on their way to tsfat, made a wrong turn and ended up at Rashbi. There someone told them that the dancing Rabbi was probably Saba Yisroel, and told them that the next time they came they should go to Tiveria (I didn't understand this guys idea, there are much more Nanach in Meron.... and where exactly in Tiveria will they meet up with the Nanach?). So this time around they came straight to Tiveria and had some Divine help finding and renting an apartment (when they thought they might have to pay $300 a night for a hotel), and they were here for 3 weeks.

Last night they came to holy tomb of Rabbi Akiva and the Ramchal and someone pointed them to my direction knowing that I speak English.

B"H we spoke for about 2 hours, they were completely amazed how so much of what they had so desperately wanted to know is in fact very readily available, except Rabbainu's way is that a person has to first get past all types of impediments and darkness.

B"H this is just the very beginning of the story.

Great blessings of Na Nach Nachma Nachman MeUman!