Secure travels to Rabbainu Na Nach Nachma Nachman Me'Uman

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On  my way to Rabbainu NNNNM for Rosh Hashana, in the airport I had to undergo the Elal all serious precheck in interrogation and security check. The lady asked me where I'm flying, so I replied to Rabbi Nachman - NNNNM, she wasn't happy with my answer, and asked again where are you flying? And I repeated to Rabbainu NNNNM. This charade repeated itself a few times, with each of us trying to us different variations of our dialogue to get our  point across, she would say but what is your destination and so forth. Finally she asks but to what city are you flying, to which I replied Uman! This wasn't either the answer she wanted, and we tried it again to no avail. Finally she asks but where is the airport?! Ahhhh, Kiev of course, and now she had her answer. Undoubtedly it did her a world of good to hear all the time about the ultimate final destination.

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Travelling Nanach Style

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Just when I thought I have seen it all, Rabbainu showed me that I am just getting my feet wet. First I tried to barge into the gates section showing just my boarding card as a pdf on my phone, I completely forgot that you need to first run that through the computer and get a printout, they weren't so happy about that. So I went in line, and I was very excited, I had a wad of holy peteks in my hand, and an open sefer of the Ramchal, holy of holies, and I couldn't stop from prancing about in delight. The guy probably realized that I was high, he just couldn't figure out the Nanach part, he asked me if I had received anything and I told them I had a nifty stash of the holy petek with me, he asked me if i had bought them or got them as a present, I told him the Nanach's have them around and so i helped myself, but I would have been glad to pay, whatever it would cost, it's very well worth it. So he asks me where they are in my bag. So I tell him everywhere, I stash them everywhere, and he's mulling this over, and asking more and more of these sorts of questions and I realize I have an opportunity of inoculating Nanach into this dude, and he's having great difficulty, so he goes to the superviser for a consultation, but she's in middle of briefing a bunch of the regulars, so he has to wait, meanwhile about 200 people are waiting while I dance about with my stash. He came back for some more give and take, and got an earfull of Nanach, and went back to wait on his supervisor some more. Finally she comes over, and starts the whole thing from the beginning, this time I'm already warmed up, (why were you in Israel? Because I'm Nanach - pointing to all my Nanach ornaments- and Rabbainu is all about the Holy Land, in fact....) and she gets to know about how I was originally charedi, and then Rabbainu had mercy on me and I was brainwashed (I told her that in Hebrew that is Shteefas moach), and so on and on it went, until I got her giggling, and I did a little bout of my roudy laughter, and continued educating her about my life as a Nanach, inviting her to Uman, and to find me a shidduch. They kept looking over my passport and I was praying and dancing, and reassuring myself in the merit of NNNNM and the blessings of my holy friends. It was really gevald - somewhere in the middle Hazamir revealed himself in the long line watching the show, and gave a holler - I wanted to introduce him to the supervisor, possibly as a character witness, but the situation didn't present itself. It was a pretty crazy ordeal with security, B"H, unfortunately we can't video these things. So all the times she's getting surprised, like with the fact that I was originally chareidi, and a bunch of other things, and as we're wrapping things up, she says so now you're going home, and I figure that she's catching on that Rabbainu is home, and I say, forsure, Rabbainu is home, and then she finds out I'm going to Uman - the whole time she thought - I don't know how i was going home! Surprise surprise, it was just hilarious. B"H. Na Nach Nachma Nachman MeUman!

Later going through the real customs, I got a guy who was a very big fellow, and he was in middle of some transaction with a friend, when I popped in, and his face was full of puzzlement, baffeled, really strange. He saw my brand new passport, and asked me in wonderment how I entered the country, so I revealed to him, that I had an old passport, then he's asking me for a students visa, and things are looking bleak, and I realize i'm not even holding my wad, so I quickly dig into my pockets and came out with a wad which I shuffled in front of his face shining Saba and the Petek at him, and after a few more little bits - there's some more great parts which I can't write right now, B"H he let me through, no problems....

Na Nach Nachma Nachman MeUman!

Nanach makes drugs look like garbage patch dolls

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So B"H somehow I was given the right to one piece of luggage, in addition to a carry on, so I took a big box of matza (2 and 1/2 kilo I think) and filled it with about 20 new Legendary Tales so that from Uman they can make their way to English speaking locations. The airport security had a real heyday with it, I told them straight out that it wasn't matza we were dealing with, but something much more powerful - books of Rabbainu! So first they ran the box through some machines, xray I presume, and that just whetted their appetite, and they opened up the box and had all types of discussions over it , and they started examining the books and the stack of paper fliers which have one story printed on it, they called me in, and another guy came in and took another look at my passport, and this went on for some time, all the while I goaded them on, explaining to them that their machines were sensing the utter power of Nanach but couldn't put their finger on it. In any event they got quite a mouthful of Nanach B"H, and eventually my matza box of Rabbainu was freed and given over to be put on the plane.
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Technology Catching Up To Rabbi Nachman

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In Rabbi Nachman's Legendary Tales, in the second story of A King and an Emperor, Rabbi Nachman related that the Emperor's daughter had a burning lens which she used like a laser gun to shoot at the prince who is climbing the mast of a neighboring ship and burn his brain. It has come to my attention that there is a TV show, slightly sci-fi which enacted such a gun, where a group of tech savy geniuses put together solar panels to shoot out a ray of heat to burn and blast a tire of a speeding car. Scorpion, season 2 episode 14.
Rabbainu said that in the time of the Messiah people will have their own personal flying machines in which they can readily hop over to visit someone, we have yet to see this, but it seems in the making.
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Hierarchy

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Korach told Moshe (16:13)
המעט כי העליתנו מארץ זבת חלב ודבר להמיתנו במדבר כי תשתרר עלינו גם השתרר
It is it not enough.... that you make take rule (office) over us as well

The Meshech Chuchma (Litvak Rabbi of Dvinsk) says a beautiful insight. We find in the mishna (Yuma 7:1 and Sota 7:7-8) that when the High Priest or King would read from the Torah before the multitudes, the Torah would be taken out by the President of the Synagogue, who would give it to the Assistant High Priest, who would give it to the High Priest, who would give it to the King. All of this was to bring more honor to the King.

This is what Korach accused Moshe, saying that Moshe was creating new offices and positions between him and the people, only to bring himself all the additional honor which comes with the appointment of every new station.

From this one should learn practically to inculcate different progressions of supernal worlds in his meditations and prayers to G-d. Before speaking to HY, or meditating of His existence, one can gain profoundly heightened consciousness by simply reviewing in his mind quickly the hierarchy of the seven heavens and seven heichulos (chambers).

There is another advantage as well, usually in order to fly one needs to first take some small jumps in progression. Similarly, at least for beginners, it might be hard to bind oneself directly to the Ein Sof B"H immediately, but by first grabbing higher cognizance one at a time, maybe B"H he will be able to go all the way to the Ein Sof B"H.

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Yoke of Heaven -- way to freedom

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The Zohar reveals that the Yoke of Heaven actually serves to make things easier. A bird is free to fly if it can get off the ground. An engine can propel an object with great speed to its destination, but if the object is not directed, then it will just spin out of control. Fear of Heaven is the first gate to literally set one's soul flying in the spiritual worlds, one has to know how to harness himself properly in its yoke, and then can take off.

After writing this B"H I was blessed with further insight.

Fear of Heaven <Yiras Shumayim/Hashem> is the aspect of the woman, as the verse says 'eesha yiras Hashem', the woman's position is below the man, as 'malchus' is the final sfirah and mate to all the 9 sfirot. Malchus is 'ani' - I. When a person fears Hashem, there is a definite sense of identity, this person is fearing Hashem. This is firm rooting in the ground (also aspect of the female).
Keter - crown, the highest sfira, which is the emanator, is 'ain' <complete abnegation>. The crown is also the ultimate aspect of the woman of valor, as the verse says, "a woman of valor is the crown of her husband".
It is known (Zohar and other holy books, also see the letter of the Ramban) that through fear of Heaven, which is considered the aspect of the heel, one can come to humility, the aspect of the crown.

By embedding oneself in the malchus, which would seemingly ground him, on the contrary he completes his identity, and can abnegate himself even to Keter - the crown, divesting himself completely of all ego or credit, projecting only the malchus of the ein sof.

Na Nach Nachma Nachman MeUman!

Adventures of Simcha Nanach

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On my way out of EY to Uman, I arrived late at the airport, and very close to the departure of the flight I was forced to buy a return ticket, B"H I managed although because of the time pressure I settled for a more expensive ticket.

מקיש יציאה לביאה....

On my way out of Kiev to the Holy Land, my flight was 9:45 am, Netz was about 7:50 am, so I got a ride to the airport with Binyomin from W., and we arrived at the airport in time to daven Netz, and then I checked in my suitcase and proceeded to customs, there was a long line, and when I finally presented my passport, lo and behold, once again I was there more than I was welcome, so about 45 minutes before the flight I find myself in their office as they struggle to get the printer working and figure out how to extract money from me. They demanded about 860 grivna -- (last time that came out to about $108, this time, due to the depreciation of the grivna, it came out to about $53. Something to think about...), so i went to the bank, waited my turn, and gave them my credit card, but they said that they couldn't recognize it. So I was stuck, with very little time before my flight. Looking around the airport the only Jews I saw were two bochurim, I asked them if I could borrow the money and pay them back in Israel, but they didn't have money, just a few grivna they had left over, so they donated 50 grivna to the cause. They told me that they had also been looking around for other Jews but couldn't find any. So I circled the airport, with my heat screaming to HY, and with full faith that everything is mamash for the best (maybe the flight was going to blow up???), and I was already thinking about what it would be like to merit to spend more time with Rabbainu, but in any event I had to redeem my passport from the customs, and I didn't want to lose the flight. -- So B"H I spot a guy wearing a beanie sitting at a table with someone that might have been his mother --- it was less than 10 minutes to my flight. So I as him if he speaks English and blurt out my situation in as few words as possible, and without any need of further explanation the guy hands me 2 crisp 500 grivna bills (from a leather portfolio), and the woman another 100. So he asks me if I'm coming from Rabbi Nachman, and I say of course, and he asks me if he could give me names to pray for, I say, forsure, so he hands me a very fancy pen, and I start writing names on a napkin: Eliyahu ben Luba Simcha and Tamar bat Rachel -- may H"Y bless them with all the blessings and salvations of Na Nach Nachma Nachman MeUman -- they were just warming up -- ready to give me many more names, but said to them sorry but my flight is almost gone, and I raced to the bank, there was a long line, but they let me cut to the front, and after a brief wait I paid, ran to the customs (had to go through security.....), got my visa, and started running for the boarding gate -- that's when I hear my name on the loudspeaker to present myself immediately for boarding, it was still a little distant and I made it there as fast as I could, it was completely deserted except for one attendant, who was kind of surprised that I actually showed up, and she started to ask me why I was so late, but she cut herself off because there was no time and she sent me quickly to the plane -- B"H the plane had delayed the few minutes (plus the extra time before the final departure when they close for good) that I needed.
Yishtabach Shimo Lu-ad -- not only did I make it, I was about 250 (less than $20) richer for the ordeal.

Na Nach Nachma Nachman MeUman!