Prayer over Torah

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The Ramchal (in Adir Bamarom and in Ginzay Ramchal) revealed that the Torah is the aura of the radiance of the Sefiros, their garment, and from there the souls are rooted. Prayer on the other hand, Rabbainu revealed, is itself Divine!

The litvaks made a few mistakes, one, they seemingly seem to contend that the Torah is G-d Himself, and not just the aura as above. Two, it is therefore best to just hold on to the Torah because that way one is always attached to G-d and there is nothing higher than that, because prayer is just a means not an end and is secondary.

Prayer demands the leap of faith, because as long as one is attached to the Torah he will be attached to HY, and in some ways that is the most preferable as our Sages explained the prophets admonition - if only they would leave Me and take up the Torah its light would return them to be proper, however if one can make the jump, to let go of the lifeline and just pray, then he can achieve absolute unity with G-d. This is like mountain climbing where certain patches cannot be scaled slowly step by step, but demand momentum, to be able to leap from foothold to foothold. Ultimately one should be praying the Torah, to keep the Torah to realize the Torah to be the Torah, and that is the consummate unification of Hashem, the Torah, and the soul (it should be noted that the greatest secrets of the Torah are an aspect of prayer).

Na Nach Nachma Nachman MayUman! 

The Virtue of Saying Na Nach Nachma Nachman MayUman 15-19

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“Na NaCh NaChMuh NaChMaN MayUman.” This is a melody of single (pashoot), double (cafool), triple (mishoolush), fourfold (miroovuh), with the ten letters of the name, “Na Nach” – “Na NaCh NaChMa NaChMaN,” this is ten letters, ten letters correlating the ten types of melody that he revealed for the rectification of the bris (-circumcision, covenant), “teekoon ha’kla’lee (-general/comprehensive rectification)”, ten types of melody, ten chapters of Psalms.[1]

(Sichos Saba 28a)

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There still had never been such a signature, and not in the life of Rabbainu, it was just revealed in this Petek, a new revelation! That he, he is the song that will be revealed in the future: single (pashoot), double (cafool), triple (mishoolush), fourfold (miroovuh) – “Na NaCh NaChMuh NaChMaN MayUman.” This is a new revelation! This… the redemption, the entire redemption is contingent on it!

If it was we who said this, then what? What? Who are we? What? I say it is like this, and someone else says it like this (-a different way), yes, but what Rabbainu Hakadosh revealed is still not a drop in the ocean, he made known just a little which retains the many, just a little, a bit, a drop of the ocean of his greatness. For he knew how we need him, his every single word, in order to be acquainted (/recognize) Hashem Yisburach, and to merit to fear of Heaven, and faith, and truth, yes, there will be a new world!

(Sichos Saba 31)

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And through faith one merits to the future renewal of the world, and then there will arouse the aforementioned new song, and this is (what is says about Moses): “and he jumped up ten cubits,” this is the aspect of the future song[2] which is a song which is single (pashoot) etc., which is ten letters, the aspect of ten cubits.

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[Visitor: But Saba should reveal to us the secret of this.] The secret? [visitor: we don’t understand the secret.] The secret is… it is possible to understand that Rabbainu Hakados reveals… there is in the Zohar (Tikun 21), in Likutay Moharan (volume 1 Torah 49, volume 2 Torah 8), that there is a song that (it) will return the entire world to Hashem Yisburach and to the Torah, through this song. So Rabbainu reveals that he is this song – “Na Nach Nachma Nachman.” This song is: single (pashoot), double (cufool), triple (mishoolush), quadruple (miroovuh). “Na” this is single (pashoot), “NaCh” – double (cufool), “NaChMuh” – triple (mishoolush), “NaChMaN” – quadruple (miroovuh). And also it has ten letters, “Na NaCh NaChMuh NaChMaN,” this is ten letters, this corresponds the ten types of melodies that he revealed, this being propitious (-a segula) for (-to save from) defection of the bris (-covenant, circumcision), this is the “Teekoon Haklalee (-general/comprehensive rectification),” ten types of melody.

(Sichos Saba 28a)

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[Visitor: The world (-everyone) has to say “Na Nach Nachma Nachman MayUman”? They have to say this? What will draw them close to Rabbainu?] This… it is necessary to understand that this is propitious (-a segula), because he is the root of the redemption, and he is the root of all the souls of Israel, and he is the general aggregate of the entire Torah and all the tzadikim that were from the creation of the world, he is (-portrays, reflects, represents) Moshe Rabbainu, he is Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, he is all the tzadikim. The choice of the creation!

(Sichos Saba 12b)[3]

Na Nach Nachma Nachman MayUman!

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[1] See the wording of the “hiskashrus” (-bonding – to Rabbainu) printed in many publications before the Tikun Haklali which is based on the prayer of Rabbi Nussun: “and in their (-the ten Psalms) merit and their power I should merit to reveal all the ten types of melody etc. which are the song which is single, double, triple, fourfold etc..” Thus we learn that the ten Psalms of the Tikun Haklali are really only the way to reveal the actual song of Na Nach Nachma Nachman MayUman.

[2] Rabbainu explained that music is composed of up and downs, hence jumping can allude to music.

[3] See more regarding the utter magnitude of his greatness, and what he testified about himself, what no one born of woman merited to, in the book The Life of Our Leader Rabbi Nachman, in the sections regarding “The Greatness of the Awesomeness of His Conception/Attainment,” and “The Virtue/Height of His Torah,”and comprehend a little from afar if you have the mental faculty.

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.

Na Nach Nachma Nachman MeUman!