Nanach on the Torah Portion of Mishpatim - references to all the original teachings of Rabbi Nachman of Breslov and his disciples

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Mishpatim – פרשת משפטים - Ordinances

21:1 וְאֵלֶּה הַמִּשְׁפָּטִים: And these are the ordinances:

The ordinances - “hamishpatim” this word with its seven letters has the numerical value (gematria) of: Na Nach Nachma Nachman MeUman!

22:8 עַד הָאֱלֹהִים יָבֹא דְּבַר שְׁנֵיהֶם: To the court shall come the matter of both of them.

One who defects in business and does not bind his thoughts only to the Torah which is cloaked there, must come before judges who manifest and make from all of it Torah

Likutay Moharan, Torah-Lesson 280

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Judges are called “Elohim” (an appellation for G-d) because they make Divine Torah from every matter

Likutay Halachos, Laws of Judges 4:2

22:24 לֹא תִהְיֶה לוֹ כְּנֹשֶׁה: Do not be to him as a (demanding) creditor.

Taking interest is an insurgency of avarice which is idolatry

Likutay Halachos, Laws of Interest 3

23:5 כִּי תִרְאֶה חֲמוֹר שֹׂנַאֲךָ וגומר: When/if you see the donkey of your enemy etc..

This is an allusion to seeing the plight of a friend overburdened with sin

Likutay Halachos, Laws of Unloading and Loading 2

23:11 וְהַשְּׁבִיעִת תִּשְׁמְטֶנָּה וּנְטַשְׁתָּהּ: And the seventh (year) you should let up and leave it be (from all care and ownership).

Ownerless property is a manifestation that all the various differences are all included in the simple unity

Likutay Halachos, Laws of Unloading and Loading 4:6

23:12 לְמַעַן יָנוּחַ שׁוֹרְךָ וַחֲמֹרֶךָ: In order that your ox and your donkey shall rest.

These two specifically were mentioned because the main mitzva is to draw nullification and to quell the ox and donkey of the klipa (evil husks-forces)

Likutay Halachos, Laws of Interbreeding Animals 4:3

23:17 שָׁלֹשׁ פְּעָמִים בַּשָּׁנָה יֵרָאֶה וגומר: Three times in the year an appearance etc..

Israel would specifically go by foot and not by wagon, because the main tikun (rectification) of the Light of the Countenance of the Temple is drawn by the feet which need guarding from the cheetzoanim (“externals” - evil forces) which are close to the feet

Likutay Halachos, Laws of Divorce 4:10

23:19 רֵאשִׁית בִּכּוּרֵי אַדְמָתְךָ תָּבִיא בֵּית ה' אֱלֹהֶיךָ לֹא תְבַשֵּׁל גְּדִי בַּחֲלֵב אִמּוֹ: The first of the first produce of your land bring to the House of Hashem your G-d, do not cook a goat in the milk of its mother.

A person can be rectified only by a someone of very high standing

Likutay Halachos, Laws of Meat With Milk 5:15

24:7 כֹּל אֲשֶׁר דִּבֶּר ה' נַעֲשֶׂה וְנִשְׁמָע: Everything which Hashem has said we will do and we will heed.

This indicates extraordinary enormous desire and yearning for Hashem Yisburach

Likutay Halachos, Laws of a Guarantor 3:40

Na Nach Nachma Nachman MeUman!

Real Daas - realization of knowledge - to overcome the exile

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In Likutay Moharan (Torah 10 and 17) Rabbainu brings from the Talmud (Megila 12b) that exile detracts from a person's daas - realization of knowledge. However in the secular world they point out quite the contrary, that it is the immigrants that excel, and have brought huge progress and innovation.

So put two and two together, and gain daas... that obviously what the secular world considers success is very empty and external achievement. Sure it might be great to have more modern inventions, but ultimately they are just external, they do not touch the person himself. Real daas, is life knowledge, it is the very soul of a person...

When Yaakov went down to Egypt, he first sent ahead to establish a Yeshiva, as Rabbainu explains in Likutay Moharan (volume 2, Torah 5) - a place to gather the faith. When one is in exile it is really a manifestation of the exile of daas, and the main thing is to get a grip on that, and firmly uphold the daas. Not to get caught up in excelling in external success, which is just a further degeneration Gf, but to get to the core, to take hold of the root - grasp onto HY who is Omnipresent - and Whom is THE infinite DAAS - as He gives it over to His tzadik in His Torah.

Rabbi Nussun writes at length how real, real daas is the true realization that we are only in this world for a very brief time, and what we manage to glean from the goodness of HY, His Tzadik, His Torah, His people, His land... will be eternal.

Na Nach Nachma Nachman MeUman!

Parshas Va-yeegash - making amends

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Va-yeegash (Genesis 45:3) ולא יכלו אחיו לענות אתו כי נבהלו מפניו- and his brothers couldn't answer him because they were bewildered from his presence.

The brothers had came down to Egypt intent on finding Yosef and rescuing him, they were even prepared to wage war against all of Egypt to rescue him, to fix their grave sin of selling him. But what they were not prepared for was that Yosef would not need their help at all, and that they could not gain any sense of feeling of redemption by some grandiose rescue or any restoration of Yosef to his former status (- that is why they didn't recognize him in the first place, because his looking a little different was enough for them to build a mental defense against the possibility that it was him). This calls to mind the book Count of M.C. which is so trivial in that the count comes back and has his vengeance on all his enemies, because they all have greatness that he can take away, and all the people he wants to award are in great need - it all works out so nice and convenient, but if the enemies were just lowly people he wouldn't have anything to get revenge, and if those he wanted to award were already wealthy and honorable there wouldn't be anything he could do, very pathetic. So here too the brothers were stuck with this reality that there was no simple way of gaining penance by undoing the wrong, the wrong had already been fixed without them, and now they were utterly helpless.
So Yosef Hatzadik called them near and showed them his circumcision - for Yosef is the aspect of yesod-foundation (the real foundation, is the inner level, because always the external level stands completely on the level within - which manifests itself so meekly in the external level), he told them that if they wanted to make things right, they were all still in this world together, and by keeping their faith and brotherhood pure they could in fact still achieve redemption. Because nothing is withheld from G-d, and by keeping true to the aspect of Yosef G-d would avail them of the complete rectification they had presumed to attain. The Yesod is always attached to the aspect of Ain - nothingness of the Ain Sof (No Limit - Infinite G-d) - the Yesod is always completely new, and in renewal everything can be achieved, and the completion of the foundation is only by virtue of the successful building that stands upon it. So ultimately his entire best interest was in their success, and their success would be the rectification. This is what Yosef told them, I was sent here to sustain you, what would it look like if I were to wrong you now... and all the other things, check it out for yourself....

Na Nach Nachma Nachman MeUman!

Real Real Effort

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In Sichos HuRan (Words of Rabbi Nachman) article 121, Rabbainu belittled the effort of the chasidim. He likened their great show of enthusiasm and shouting out in prayer to the charade he played when he was captive on the pirate ship and every man was required to help pull up the anchor, and so Rabbainu was forced to show dramatic effort as if he was pulling with all his might. The chasidim were on fire - they were praying with Rabbainu, and yet Rabbainu said that it was all external and superficial. One must really jolt himself intensely - to beam inside a glimpse of the awesome magnitude of HY, way way and beyond our puny cognizance. There's a great deal more to be said about this, but I'm happy that I've finally at least got this down, because I've been wanting to post about it for a long time, from here on let the reader know for himself the true score and what he must strive to achieve...

BH now I merit to expound a little more.

See Sichos HuRan (Words of Rabbi Nachman) article 170, Rabbi Nussun asked Rabbainu how is it that we see people serving HY with great effort and they fail to attain the levels of the tzaddikim, and Rabbainu answered him that apparently they aren't really expending true effort, see there. Because when one really gives all he has to the devotion of HY, he will merit to get a "jolt" a true realization and awakening beyond the scope of his small consciousness.

Many people feel they are incapable or exempt from attaining high levels of dvaikus (binding) to HY and Torah knowledge. But the reality is that even the smartest and most talented person is quite insignificant and infinitesimal in the arena of true spiritual attainment (- the greatest olympic athlete can only do so much with his body, whereas one who has help even from the lowest angel of the lowest world can fly and carry about as he pleases with ease). The main thing, which every person is capable of and must strive for, is to truly light up his soul in the truth of HY, and according to how much one merits to do so, so will he rise and include himself in the unity of HY.

Na Nach Nachma Nachman MeUman!

Who are you, and who do you want to be?

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The Zohar reveals a  huge secret, the Torah says that when Joseph saw that he couldn't get out of the seduction and grasp of the wife of Poateephar, he left his "beg'ged" - his clothing in her hands and ran away. The Zohar reveals that this "beg'ged" is in reality the most external layer of the body, which is a demon. Basically Joseph left her a plaything, a man toy, a dildo, and the rest of himself ran away. And if we follow the verses according to this revelation we see that the wife of Poateephar wasn't at all satisfied and in desire of this external superficial body, she had wanted Joseph himself.

The Zohar also reveals that Esther did not sleep with King Achashvairosh, only this very external outer layer of her body, which is a demon, Mordechai and Esther would swear, and command it by oath, to go sleep with Achashvairoash, and after it was done and returned to Esther, she would ritually immerse herself and be with Mordechai. The Ramchal in Kinaas Hashem Tzivoas explains that this demon is so external - it is just like eye makeup - that there was no interference from this activity to Esther's holiness and her  relationship with Mordechai, however even still since this layer had done this, it needed ritual immersion.

Today, unfortunately, due to our sins and the great coarseness of the world, not to mention pornography and all the allurements of the entertainment industry, alcohol, drugs - all of these things play directly and exclusively to this "beg'ged" the outer most external layer of our bodies, which has almost no real connection to who we really are, and yet we empower it and give it our full attention and give it to rule and command our lives, may the Holy Merciful One G-d save us.

We must be strong to stand up to this temptation to lust after this superficial encasing, and live true lives.

Na Nach Nachma Nachman MeUman

The curse of external knowledge of the gentiles

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Rabbi Nussun, the prime disciple of Rabbi Nachman, was the master of seeing only good in people. He received from Rabbainu the teaching and life practice that even in the most evil Jew there is some good point, however small, which one should search out, latch on to, and only see this person through the vantage of this goodness. Rabbi Nussun said that he can explain elaborately any area of the entire Torah, but to explain even the most insignificant Jew he was unable.

This very Rabbi Nussun composed pages and pages of diatribe, castigation, and curses against those who teach and pollute the young Jewish minds with secular knowledge. Today probably thousands if not tens of thousands of Breslovers pray and articulate these words every day! Be aware!

This should drill home the utter evil and danger of secular knowledge.

Today as science manifests its exhibitionism of its measurements and computations, producing tools and devices, it becomes harder to retain the realization of how superficial all of it is, really just an assembly of the empirical in a mechanical fashion so that it can serve humanity in some way. In a previous post Machine Angels you can see how all the services these new robots are providing and many more, were all provided for Adam directly via spiritual forces of angels, and every physical entity is in reality empowered by a spiritual one, and it is a terrible handicap to be blind to the reality and only see the superficial physical shell and credit it for more than what it is, a slave. All the external knowledge of the sciences and all the fields and disciplines studied in the secular world, are simply just that - slaves, at the service of the true inner purpose, nothing more. Don't mistake it from what it is, don't be misled. True it may contain some amazing facets, such is the nature of the creation of G-d Almighty, but in no way does it even begin to touch the true wisdom of the Torah. Every letter of the Torah is true living wisdom of creating value - not simply empirical, stagnant, and dormant. There is a great deal more to be said....

Keep strong.

Na Nach Nachma Nachman MeUman!