Fishy Nanach - Fish is single and plural - like Nanach

 

Saba Yisroel and Meir Maimoni

HH
Now he is a Rosh Kollel in Chatzor (a town near Tzfas), he was frequently by Saba, he would often come with Shemmer (the guy who wrote the books for Uz - zugdon, and BH broke off from this cult leader), and Saba would laugh on their arrival.
Saba revealed to him his previous gilgul as a rabbi in Safed, and possibly even his exact burial spot.
Once he came to Saba wearing a brand new jacket and Saba kept praising it, which was very strange and out of character, so Meir offered it to Saba, and Saba accepted it.
Later when he got home he discovered that at the very time Saba was coming on to his to new jacket, his infant son starting choking on a toy - a chain of plastic fruit, and when he gave the jacket to Saba, the toy dislodged from his throat, and he was saved. When Meir returned to Saba he found his new jacket disregarded.

Meir also heard from Saba who said of himself that he extracted himself from the maitzach (forehead- point of brazenness) of the nachash (snake).

Na Nach Nachma Nachman Me'Uman

Open Sesame overtaken by Rabbi Na Nach

HH
Y.A. n"y named after his famous grandfather the renown kabalist author of the Sulam, has yearned for many years to come to the holy tomb of Na Nach Nachma Nachman Me'Uman, but the Zionist regime imposed restrictions on him leaving him as a captive in the holy land. This year a lawery told him that to even think of gaining allowance to leave for a few days would entail putting $10000 on the table, procuring guarantors, and who knows what else. But our dear friend has been actively doing hisbodidus on this every day for 4.5 years, and he couldn't hold back. He bought a ticket and went to the airport. By the border control he put his palm in the machine and it refused to acknowledge him, he tried time and time again with no success. So finally he screamed, "Rabbainu I'm coming to you, open up the way!" This time the machine gave him passage, and BH he's sitting right here with me by the holy tomb.
Na Nach Nachma Nachman Me'Uman!

We got the cure!

HH

A friend of mine came over to me, here in Uman by the Rebbe, and he said he needs my help, he told me that he has a cure for cancer and he needs my help getting it out there. He caught me a little off guard, I was a little surprised and disappointed, a little timidly I asked him, but I thought you were busy with Rabbainu, the final solution and salvation for all the maladies of the world, the eradication of all evil.... He had got me to take the bait, and he turned on me and said, that's exactly what I'm talking about, we need your help with a new project promoting the awesome book Blossoms of the Spring (Ebay HaNachal) which has been known and confirmed to cure cancer....

Here is the first letter:
http://naanaach.blogspot.com/2014/01/blossoms-of-springs-letter-1.html

Na Nach Nachma Nachman MeUman!

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!

Where do you see something like that?

HH last night I spent 3-4 hours - till about midnight - speaking to some new souls that are going Nanach B"H, forfeiting chatzot and messing up my whole sleeping schedule. Once a person begins a mitzva he is פטור from all others, so I just gave it as much as I could. They were also exhausted and intermittently nodding off and quickly awakening themselves so as to hear more. One of them burst into tears and spontaneous heartfelt prayers completely overwhelmed by the awesomeness of Na Nach Nachma Nachman MeUman....

See also Sichos (Conversations) of Rabbi Nachman 231 about the quality of a broken heart....

אות - רלא

ספר לי אחד מאנשיו שפעם אחת שאל את רבנו זכרונו לברכה מהו החלוק שבין לב נשבר (תיח) למרה שחורה. השיב לו: לב נשבר הוא כך שאפלו כשעומד בין העולם יחזיר פניו ויאמר: רבונו של עולם וכו'. ובאותה שעה בעצמה ובתוך כך אמר רבנו זכרונו לברכה בעצמו: רבונו של עולם בהתעוררות נפלא ובנשיאת ידים בהשתוקקות נמרץ כדרכו: ...

Lights of hope -- Nanach --- in Auschwitz!!!

HH

So my new friends didn't show up last week, and I was thinking oh well, that's the end of them... HY. Just now I get a call from them, they didn't make it last week because they were invited to participate in the big holocaust memorial with all the celebrities.

So after enduring all the ceremonies in the freezing camp grounds, and spending Shabbos in the hotel hearing all the atrocities that went down, comes time to make havdala, and my friend has had enough of the death and agony, so he sits on the side and pops out his newly acquired Nanach books. He reads the story of the Petek, and begins dancing Nanach (to the best of his knowledge), and he's not sure if he's mad, but he strengthens himself, and before long more and more people join the dancing, and then everyone is dancing (it's like 1000 people), and on the women's side, they are dancing!!!!

Everyone is dancing thanks to Rabbainu.

The guests were so bent from the whole event, and they were about to return to the misery of their professions, chasing the shortcomings of this world, and it was very bleak. They don't know where they are heading, after seeing where the Jews had ended. Suddenly B"H Rabbainu interjects and says you got plenty to be excited about!!! Na Nach Nachma Nachman MeUman!!!

So my friends, are reading to the guests from the Nanach books. The guy is reading the story of the Simpleton and the Wise Man, and this is something that blew their minds, because this is exactly what they were trapped in, all their sophistication. The woman is reading to the women about shmiras habris, and the women who all have sons, are crying for all the calamity they may have caused. And they are all full of gratitude to Hashem for everything now.

Also there was a gentile boy who was stuck with them due to the weather, and he was completely blown away by some of the teaching of Rabbainu, and they were amazed just watching the impact and power of Rabbainu.

So many of the celebrities are crying and laughing, and they are thanking my friends telling them that they have made their lives, as they are about to return to the gloomy world of falsehood. -- How did the media miss out on this???

There's much more, but I told myself at least something otherwise I won't write anything, so B"H for every little bit.

B"H thank G-d for Na Nach Nachma Nachman MeUman!

Saba Yisroel -- To See The Blossoms of the Spring

Chapter 2 – His Childhood

Once, in the summer of 753 (1993), before the prayers he spoke about his childhood, and he fired us up so much that afterwards we prayed with shouting and great kavana (concentration and intention). He said that H”Y gave him many presents from the time he was little, that he did not desire this world at all. At that time the modern, who go in short clothing, began to proliferate, but he waited to become of age and wear a long garment. They suffered from poverty, he said that poverty is a great gift, because from a full stomach it is hard to serve Hashem; one sleeps a lot, and specifically from the poverty he saw the vanity of this world. At night he would go to sleep, but it is necessary to eat, and much time was left (without food) and he had only a piece of bread. When he saw someone saying Psalms with Kavana, he would say, “fortunate is this person, he is committed to the ultimate purpose!” He himself experienced great delight in every word of his prayer and of the Psalms that he said, and this was one of the presents.

When he prayed in the synagogue, he would pray with all this strength and kavana, as though he was alone, and one of the elders (who was very miserly) gave him a large coin every day, until he amassed a sum and he asked his mother to buy him a siddur 'kol-boa' – that has in it all types of supplications and prayers – from Jerusalem. He also told us that he would get up at night to serve Hashem, and the house was hot like a cave, and he would like a candle with benzine, in order to study, and in his house --- they were extremely poor – they were very grieved by this, for they saw that before Shabbos they were very deficient in benzine in order to cook etc.. Until they made electric lights outside, and he rejoiced greatly then, for now he would be able to pray and learn the night for free.

Chapter 3

Blossoms of the Spring

R' Yisroel told someone to reach out to his (this person's) family through letters, just as he (Saba) had done with Shazar, taking Rabbainu's books and quoting them in letters of outreach.

R' Yisroel once called one of the friends on Shabbos and said to him, “Behold I authored Blossoms of the Spring, this is not a simple matter.” This was like saying that this book was not a simple copying from the books of Rabbainu that anyone could have done, so the matter needs study.

Chapter 4

Love of Friends

Once, someone told R' Yisroel that he sees that it is very difficult to make peace between the friends. R' Yisroel replied, “I remained alon, all of them (all my friends) deserted me, very good” etc..

Once, R' Yisroel turned to two friends and asked them if they were friends, good friends. And he said that the main point of friendship is to find the truth.

On the last Rosh Hashana he said to someone: We should merit to have a true chevra (group of friends).

To someone whose friends conflicted with him and didn't speak with him, he said: We didn't come to this world for friends, just to serve Hashem – to fulfill the Torah and the mitzvos.

Once, at the end of his life, he said: I searched the whole world, I didn't find a friend. So someone asked him, “How does one merit to be your friend?” R' Yisroel answered: The main thing is to pray with a fiery heart to merit to draw close to Rabbainu in truth (and in this way it is possible to merit to be his friend, that was the implication).

To someone who lived alone, in a place without friends, R' Yisroel said: Your friend is the Likutay Tefilos.

He said to someone that is good to be friends with someone who donates a lot of money for the publication (of Rabbainu's teachings). Once, someone wanted to give charity to one of the friends because he heard of his plight, and someone (else) convinced him that it would be better to give it to R' Yisroel (-for the publication). So when he agreed and came to R' Yisroel with the donation, R' Yisroel responded with unwillingness and doubt, and in the end he (R' Yisroel) said to him: Fine, give to so-and -so and mentioned the name of the friend in plight (all of this without them having told him anything about the matter, because it was clearly visible to anyone who looked truthfully, that everything was revealed before him).

He asked someone to ascertain that he was friends with someone who desired to learn a lot, and learned a lot every day.

Once, someone took enjoyment, in his mind, that R' Yisroel chastised his friend, and after a few minutes R' Yisroel turned to him privately and said to him: you are not in order.

To See The Blossoms of the Spring

HH

To See The Blossoms of the Spring

--- This is a new book just published, written by Michael Barzel a devout haredi Nanach who merited to service and spend time with Saba Yisroel -- 

Chapter 1

R' Yisroel was born on the 20^th of Kislev 657 (November 25, 1896) and was brought into the covenant of our Forefather Abraham (i.e. he was circumcised) on the third candle (-day), the same day that the waters of the Flood desisted, and he departed aloft with good old age on the 18^th of Cheshvon 755 (Sun, October 23, 1994) the day adjacent to the first day of the Flood started.

He was named 'Yisroel Ber' after a butcher from his family who was a very great tzaddik, his grandfather was the Chief Judge of the Beit Din (Jewish Court) of Odessa for 40 years, and he was a close follower of the Rav the Tzaddik the Kalisker, and he went up and immigrated to the Land of Israel.

His ways were hidden and almost nothing is known about him (this is what can be discerned from his words), and even his family and acquaintances didn't know from him, as this was hinted to once when President Shazar addressed Saba Yisroel's children on the wedding day of his son Pinchas, and said to them, “You don't know who your father is!” The children were angered by this, and even still Shazar repeated and said, “You don't know who your father is!”

The way of R' Yisroel was to allude to lofty conceptions and important matters from his conversation, and everyone understood according to the depth they fathomed in their hearts.

Also I remember that R' Yisroel's oldest daughter, OB”M, told over about him, and fired up the listeners with her words and endearing stories about him, and when they told him this, he said, “What does she know?” From this you should understand that he was very hidden, a concealed tzaddik, and the world was very mistaken about him, especially in his old age, to think that he had alread aged... Heaven forbid, or there are those that say that they knew him for 40 years, and so forth, but the truth is, it is impossible to know from him, and he hid himself completely from the world.

On the contrary, from this you can understand a little from his greatness, that he was not concerned at all about what people thought of him. On the contrary, he would purposely disgrace himself, and in truth [not like the famous rabbis who would disgrace themselves in order that everyone would declare of them, “see how humble he is...” for such humility is the epitome of haughtiness (see Likutay Moharan 11)] – as is brought down a story of R' Zusha, that once on his way he came across an orphan bride who lost her entire dowry and the groom's side wanted to call off the wedding, and when R' Zusha heard of this he announced that he found the money, and he said the amount that the bride had lost (- and this was really his own money), but he requested a percentage as a finder's fee, so everyone denigrated him very much, and they threw him out of the city with great disgrace, and all this was in order to do the mitzva for it's own sake.

Also see Likutay Moharan 261 that the tzaddikim accept upon themselves disparagement and spilling of blood (-blushing) purposely, in order to save Jews from being killed and other tragedy that was destined G”F to befall them.

So also transpired with R' Yisroel once, at the end of his life, chasidim came to see him and to hear words and encouragement from his holy mouth, and he was asking for food and chastising the master of the house saying that he has dishes but does not give him to eat, and he was shouting, and everyone was astonished, and in the morning R' Yisroel asked one of the friends to ask forgiveness from the to master of the house (and this is what he said to him:) “He needs to rejoice that he merited to host in his house the followers of Rabbainu, I need not have been so particular with him about the food, and in truth there was food, but this is the calamity of being old, yes I am old... sometimes a evil spirit enters me... but tell the master of the house that this was of great benefit to him, this was very favorable for him, for the whole world and for me as well... I am careful not to pain any Jew, but great misfortune was destined to befall the house, and by the pain that I caused, the misfortune won't come...” [from here one sees how R' Yisroel would disgrace himself in everyone's eyes in order not to receive honor, and also to mitigate the hardships from Jews].

Early signs of Nanach

HH

what comes before HH? GG (Good G-d!), or Lord George Gordon! This precious soul converted to Judaism when Rabbainu Na Nach Nachma Nachman MeUman was about 15 years old, and the way it looks to me is that Rabbainu had everything to do with the Good Lords conversion. Take a look, learn a little about the Good lord http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_George_Gordon you will see that he definitely was on the path to Nanach, unfortunately for him Nanach was still unknown to the world, but the Good lord is definitely a candidate for early inspired members of the Nanach.

That's me being wheeled by Nir V. from the holy tomb of Na Nach Nachma Nachman MeUman to a private lodging --

Danger Giving Advice Other Than NaNach

This is the second time I'm writing this so it's going to be condensed. Today we learned in Likutay Eitzos (30) that it is very dangerous to lead people and tell them what to do, not to mention if the person taking the leadership is on worthy etc. but even real true tzadikim are in sever danger when giving over advice or saying 'tora' in public. They can be guilty of stealing, molesting, and killing, may the Holy Merciful One save us.
There is no doubt that we must go out and publicize the message of Rabbi Nachman, who told his chasidim that he wanted them to make special trips just to go speak to people. Certainly the only real chasidim, not to mention Bresluver Chasidim, are the Na nach, so it is upon us to spread the holy light of Rabbi Nachman, and we can only do it the way we know how. Therefore we must do our utmost to follow the way of Saba who completely negated his opinion, mind, and body to accept Rabbi Nachman's. We must try to give over only what we believe is true to Rabbi Nachman.
Rabbi Nachman himself avoided telling people what to do, leaving them the final decision, certainly we shouldn't (except in the case of friends, in which we find Rabbi Nussun strengthening himself with his friend to do exactly what had to be done, this is what we find in Uvos that in some aspects a friend is more important than a rebbe, thus it teaches make for yourself a rebbe but you should be buy a friend (even though there are other explanations to this mishna, definitely according to many of the simple interpretations the mishna is teaching this) however it is clear that the advice is coming from a friend, if it is a friend, and its advice to strengthen oneself in the tzadik, go for it). We must just dish out the Rebbes tora. One of the good things about Na Nach is that you can't go wrong. It is always applicable and always the right thing to say. So we should be zoche to do a lot of Na nach!