Likutay Moharan - Volume 2 - Torah-teaching 123

Mikva Does Not Harm at All

He said: A mikvah [ritual bath] does not harm at all. And the doctor who tells him that a mikveh harms is not a doctor at all. On the contrary, immersion in a mikva is very good for the health of the body, for there are many small pores in a person’s body, which are the pores of sweat, through which sweat comes out from a person. And they need to be opened, for if the sweat pores are blocked, one can become weak and fall into weakness, Heaven forbid. And through immersion in water, the sweat pores are opened, and this is very good for the health of the body. Only that the water should not be too cold, for then the water hardens the aforementioned pores. But when the water is not too cold, then immersion in it is very good. Also, it has already been explained that the services and ascetic practices, which are called hariwani [hardships], do not harm at all. And one whom the service and ascetic practices harm, this is only because of haughtiness.

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

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**** 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!

The Praises of Rabbi Nachman - part 2 - The Order of His Voyage to the Land of Israel 5-7

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Shivchay Huran part 2

5. On the day preceding the festival of Passover of the year 5558 (Saturday, 31 March, 1798) our master and leader and Rebbe o.b.m. exited from the Mikvah, and he said to the one who went with him, that in this year he certainly will be in the Holy Land. And on the Festival of Passover he said Torah on the verse (Psalms 77:2), "And Your path is in a plethora of water and Your footsteps are not known," and he asked from the beginning of the verse on its end (t.n. first the verse says where the path is, and then it says it is unknown), and he said Torah on this in answer to this question, and from the words of his holy Torah it became known to all those that came to him, that certainly he would travel to the land of Israel.

6. And when his wife heard this, she sent her daughter to him to ask him, how is it possible to leave them, who will support them? And he replied as follows: "You will travel to your in-laws, your older sister - someone will take her to be a small servant in his house," which is called neyunikeh (-nakhozha nyan'ka, is the Ukrainian word for babysitter, although sitter by itself is nyana, it appears that interchangeable), "your younger sister - someone will take her into his house out of compassion, and your mother will be kitchen help/cook, and everything that is in my house, I will sell it all for travel expenses." And when his household heard this, they broke out into weeping, and they cried many days, but he had no mercy on them, and he said, because/that it is not possible without this, be what may be, he will certainly travel, because most of him is already there, and the minority goes after the majority. (And he said in these words: "vehrren (when/being that) dey (the) grestey (greater) helfit (half) iz (is) shoyn (already) dort (there) etc.). And he said: "I want to travel to the land of Israel, and I know the greatness of the impediments and the obstacles that I will have on this, immeasurable nor calculable, however, as long as my soul is inside of me, as long as I have the spirit of life in my nose, I will sacrifice (moasair nafshey) my soul and I will travel with all my strength (to) there, as long as my soul is in me I will travel there, and Hashem - will do what is good in His eyes."

7. And he said: "On every single step of  the Land of Israel voyage I will have self sacrifice (meseeras nefesh)." 

And he said: "I want to travel immediately, however it may be, even without money, however, whoever wants to have mercy on me will give me money for expenses." And immediately the fellows of our fold (a.na.sh. - anshay shloamainoo) traveled to the nearby towns and collected promptly some amount, in order that he should have in any case for the expenses to travel from his house, because the trip had great urgency, and they saw that it is impossible to procrastinate him in any way or any time whatsoever. And he embarked immediately in haste (zreezoos) from his house on the 18th of Eyar (Lag BuOmer, Friday, 4 May, 1798), and secretly together with one of his men they resolved that he would travel with him together.

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Growing Younger with Netiv Aryeh

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Tiberius is very quiet especially at night. About 4:30 in the morning on my way to the Mikvah I saw that a bus as boys had arrived at the holy tomb of the Ramchal, one of the boys even asked me where the mikva was, they had been tipped off. As I was taking my premikva shower I heard someone into the Mikvah and they stuck out my head from behind the shower curtain to laugh at him as I am wont to do especially in the Mikvah, the visiting boy, without mentioning names, was very preoccupied checking out the Mikvah and the sudden interruption of my laughing countenance gave him the shock of his life, and he made a sharp exclamation of something that did not sound even remotely close to NaNach! and ran for his life.

Afterwards I spent time with the boys. One of them asked me where I grew up, to which I replied that Nanach do not grow up, and I proceeded to tell him about Rabbainu's prohibition against being old, and the need to grow younger the older one gets as is explained in the awesome story of ancient times of the seven beggars, specifically the first one, the blind beggar. The boy asked me how in the world this can possibly be done, to get younger as one gets older. So I proceeded to explain to him that the longer one grows his beard the closer it reaches the ground (where infancy and childhood begins). The boy was doing his best to digest this but looked kind of incredulous. And there was some suspense in the air, and I added or something, and we all burst into laughter. BH.

BH there is definitely hope for these boys if they say Na Nach Nachma Nachman Meuman.

The Praises of Rabbi Nachman 17-19

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Shivchay Huran

17-19

17. He also said, that the conjugation of the true tzadik is a very difficult matter for him; and not only does he not have any desire whatsoever, just on the contrary, he has suffering from this, mamash (-literally) like the suffering of an infant during circumcision, because mamash suffering such as this the tzadik has during conjugation, and more than this, because the infant doesn't have intellect, therefore his suffering is not so great, but the tzadik who does have intellect, his suffering is greater then the infant, and this was an obvious matter by him. And he said, that every person can merit to come to this level, and it was apparent from his words that his own holiness was yet very extremely higher.

18. And he said, that by him a man and a woman are equal, that is, that no facet of thought occurs to him when he sees a woman, just everything is the same by him in his eyes, as if he sees a man. And one time he said, that he has no fear, not from a woman and not from an angel. And with this there's a lot to explain, because someone who still has any facet of fear whatsoever from thoughts of women, even if he is chaste in this regard, just that he's not immaculate in the utmost purity, and he still has some fear at all with this, he needs to fear from an angel; but he (Rabbainu) boasted that he has absolutely no fear of this, therefore he has no fear of an angel. This is slightly alluded to in the words of our Rabbis of blessed memory (Kedushin 81a): "I am flesh, and you are fire - but I am better/stronger than you," which Rav Amram Chasiduh said to the angel, and it is brought down in his words of blessed memory in the Torah-teaching "Tikoo (blast the shofar) - memshalu (dominion)" Torah 1 in the second volume of Likutay Moharan, see there well, and understand.

19. He was also very accustomed in his early childhood and in his youth to run over all the time to be by the grave of the Baal Shem Tov za.tza.viku.l. to request of him that he help him draw close to Hashem Yisburach. And he used to go there at night, and in the winter when it was extremely cold he would go there at night and from there he returned and went to the mikvah. And there was a mikva outside the bathhouse and one mikvah inside the bath house, and he chose the mikvah that was outside the bathhouse, when the cold was great and he was already very cold from being by the aforementioned grave, because there was a great distance between his house and the cemetery and also from the cemetery to the mikva, besides for the lengthy stay that he spent by the grave, even still after all this he would specifically go to immerse in the mikvah which stood outside, in order to mortify himself - and all of this secretly at night. And I heard from someone who said that he heard from his holy mouth, that when he performed these practices he was just six years old.

And he was so secretive from people in his devotions, to the extent that one time he went to the mikvah in the morning in the winter, and he came from the immersion, and his pehyos (sidelocks) were wet from the water, and everyone wondered at the oddity that in the winter a person would wash his head, because it did not occur to them that he had been in the mikvah, they just thought that he washed his head, and they wondered at his peculiarity that he washed his head in such cold, and they held it to be an act of his immaturity, because he was very, very secretive in his devotion. Also all the very many fasts that he fasted, absolutely no one in the world knew about them, even his father and his mother and his relatives, just his wife alone knew of it, and he would swear her that she should not reveal it to anyone, and he would do many (many) ruses to hide and to conceal all the fasting that he fasted, in such a way that no one would know of them.

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Rosenthal's memories of Saba Yisroel -- NEW MATERIAL

In תשמו 1986 this guy – (if I remember correctly) Shmuel Rosenthal, who now hangs out by Nekuda Tova (Chanania Ehrman's kolel in Meah She-urim right opposite Neturay Karta), was learning in a baal teshuva yeshiva in Bney Brak (even though he wasn't a baal teshuva…) on Rechov Yerushalayim, and someone directed him to get a blessing from Saba Yisroel who was then residing right around the corner on Rechov Maimon. Upon visiting Saba he realized that Saba could use some help, so he started going over to Saba every day from around 6 pm to 2 am, for about 7 months.

He said Saba used to be up the whole time, he only slept from about 3 am to 4:30 and another hour during the day. Later, Rosenthal added that Saba would sleep a bit every night right before midnight - see below.

Once he saw Saba on the floor doing Tikun Chatzos for two hours, crying intensely, but immediately upon rising he was dancing. Once (maybe on that occasion) he heard Saba crying and sobbing to HY that there was a girl in Haifa, so and so, who needed a shidduch and a boy, so and so, in Jerusalem (I forgot the exact details) who needed a shidduch… after a few months this boy and girl came to Saba as a couple, to thank him (people with me challenged the story teller how he knew that it was this boy and girl etc. but he stuck to his guns, saying that he had heard their names etc.).

Once Saba a line down his leg of infection, and our friend warned Saba against going to the Mikva, but Saba went to a cold mikva, did his 310 dips, and came out completely healed.

Another time Saba had pneumonia and they went to the ER where they had to wait and were there for 5-6 hours, getting out at about 11 pm, they gave him medication which had some good effect. All the way home in the car Saba was saying מקוה ישראל ה' וכו'… and sure enough Saba went immediately to the mikva, did his 310, and when he came out he was completely healthy.

When he was deciding to leave Saba to join Asher Freund (A meforsam… who did a lot of chessed – made many soup kitchens and all types of free services for the poor, and he also taught his followers to scream – really scream and scream – especially in the forest) in Jerusalem, he said Saba said that AF was the real thing, and he was a fan of his.

Once our friend saw a guy come to AF begging him to help him because he was overcome with promiscuity, and AF kicked him out. So our friend went over to AF and said you are **** (in Hebrew “cha...”), how can you reject a Jew, Rabbainu says there is absolutely no despair in the world etc...” and AF sat there and looked at him for a bit, and then exclaimed “You are right!” and AF called the guy back and spoke to him for a bit, one of the things he told him was to say Tikun Haklali every day in the morning after going to the mikva.

Na Nach Nachma Nachman MeUman!

B"H after posting this I had the good fortune of meeting up once again with our new friend and I asked him to review what I wrote to make sure that I got everything right. B"H he gave his approval, and he pointed out that I omitted one point - that in each of the stories above where Saba went to the mikva, he first assured them that he would only dip once, and then once he got to the mikva he did all the 310. Saba did the 310 each time with his head (not just with his finger).

Rosenthal also said that the most important and significant thing to tell over about Saba was how he was always extremely happy and joyous, and how he used to tell people that if only they were happy the could accomplish - pull off - so very much.... (Rabbainu revealed that joy breeds success...).

BH meeting up another time with Rosenthal he told me that he personally recorded three songs that Saba composed and sang from Shir Hashirim, but the tape got caught and lost.

Na Nach Nachma Nachman MeUman 


BH after getting to hear these stories, I had the good fortune of speaking again with our new friend and now I got the half stories and the juice... 

Saba once cut himself between his toes from a nail jutting out of a bench by the mikva, and he had to get stitched up by a local doctor, and he got a tetanus shot.

Saba was once visited by the notorious fraud "moharash," and he received him pleasantly - this was in 1986 (We know from Morriss that in America, a few years before, Saba once removed a Likutay Tefilos from the table and put it on the floor, and it was discovered that it was from a printing of the above mentioned fraud). Afterwards Saba's immense dislike for his falsehood became blatant.

Once after Saba recited Tikun Haklali, Rosenthal told him it was time to make a feast of Rosh Chodesh or Shabbos, Saba said fine, but we have to bring the people to faith. Shortly after a bunch of people arrived - people Rosenthal didn't recognize, and Saba began speaking with them about belief in HY. He was telling one of them how there is a Creator, and the person was like; really? where is He etc.. Saba said He is inside of you, your soul is a part of HY.... Later this person repented and became observant, and he credited Saba for bringing him  back to the holy faith.

Many people came just to jeer at Saba or for a quick thrill, and Rosenthal would often throw people out. Saba was never bothered by anyone, even still Rosenthal guestimates that 40% of the times that he threw people out, Saba was happy and relieved. Saba used to great everyone with the greatest reverence and attention. Rosenthal says he regrets leaving Saba, and that before leaving Saba took his hands and asked him to stay. Before he left, Rosenthal warned Yisroel Dagan that Saba needed constant attendance, to get rid of people and to look after his health etc.. But after he left the young French took over and a completely different era unfolded.

Saba used to go the mikva everyday, very rarely missing. He would go at chatzos.

Saba had a very loose stomach, and the food that was brought to him was not sensitive to his needs, which just compounded the matter. Once Saba was bleeding in his stool, and it took him till 4pm until he was able to pray the morning prayer.

Sometimes Gedalia Kenig would have to come over to get Saba to take his medication.

Previously we wrote Saba's sleeping order, now Rosenthal added that Saba used to sleep for a little - around 20 minutes every night before chatzos, so that he could fulfill Rabbainu's directive that the main job of a Jew is to get up (i.e. wake up and start the day) at chatzos.

BH last night - the eve of 14th of Kislev 5777 at the wedding of Avi Pretter I had the good fortune of meeting up again with SR, as the Talmud in Brachos (6b) says that the reward for going to a wedding are "words" - and so I merited to get more vintage stories about Saba. SR told me that Saba was prone to come up with something new to repent on every half hour. Once on Friday night SR went over to help serve Saba the Shabbos meal, and he heard Saba speaking to HY before making Kiddush - "Do You remember the "shehakoal" blessing I made in the morning, I didn't really put intention into blessing You, of course You remember, for it says "ain <there is no> shichichu <forgetting> lifnay <before> keesay <the throne> kivoadechu <of Your glory>" and Saba proceeded to recite the veedoy (confession) clapping his chest, "ushamanoo <we have sinned>, bugadnoo <we have been disloyal>, guzalnoo <we have stolen>...." and continued in this vein of repentance for three and a half hours!


Na Nach Nachma Nachman MeUman!

Tips for the mikva

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Some people make a big fuss of a cold mikva - there is something to it, but Rabbainu didn't leave us any specific directives about doing so, and it more of a general "seegoof" (self affliction) than a tikun (rectification) of the mikva.

Rabbainu gave two amazing directives about going to the mikva.

1. Stay under until you need to come up for air (you can speed up the process by exhaling all the air in your lungs rapidly). Although he didn't elaborate, one can easily understand the amazing strategy behind this, because coming out of the mikva is like being born new, so by getting rid of all the old breath (neshama/soul), one can rise and receive new breath (neshama)!

2. Dip 310 times - some people claim that each dip must be a full dip with head and maybe even shoulders out of the water and back in - personally I can't see any reason in the world why that would be so, even by removing a tiny tip of your finger would terminate that dip, and by reinserting it, another dip would have been achieved. Thus with two fingers, one can alternately remove one and insert the other at an extremely fast rate, and probably in one minute can do 310, if you want to play it safe, use one finger (so there's no overlay...), and you can still do all 310 in probably two minutes.

3. Under the water one should have strong kavana (concentration, intention) on the holy name and song: Na Nach Nachma Nachman MeUman!

4. Saba told the friends, that when they are under the water in the mikva, it is not sufficient to pray for the printing and dissemination of millions of the holy books of Rabbainu, they should pray for billions.

The main mikva is G-d as it says, mikva Yisroel Hashem... and from Him comes the effervescent gushing wellspring, the river which purifies all defects: Na Nach Nachma Nachman MeUman!  

Special recipe for the Mikva

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Today I merited to shed some tears while standing in the mikva, I'm sure this added great spice and flavor to the power of the mikva. From all the stories of tzaddikim I've merited to read, I don't seem to recall anything of this sort; there were many that would catch their tears in a cup, and even drink them, there is a concept to cleanse one's forehead with them, there was a tzaddik who would clean the holy ark and vicinity with his beard and tears, and here I think this is a wonderful idea to add a few tears to the mikva....

Na Nach Nachma Nachman MeUman!


Update: It took a few days before I realized that Rabbi Nachman already talks about a mikva of tears - see the Story of Ancient Years (Legendary Tales) of A Prayer Leader: "They found a woman sitting in a sea of blood, so they took her up as king, because they saw that she is surely a very great murderer since she is seated in an ocean of blood. They also asked for an audience with her, and they went and announced. They entered in to here, and this was the aforementioned queen who keeps crying constantly, and her tears come to be the sea of blood mentioned... [Kabalistically - this woman - the Queen, is really the aspect of the mikva, as is known....]

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The Petek strikes again! NNNNM!

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The Petek doesn't go to the mikva.... The Petek is the mikva!

I always sing Na Nach Nachma Nachman MeUman... but when I don't sing Na Nach Nachma Nachman MeUman.... I am thinking Na Nach Nachma Nachman MeUman!

Saba weightless and in the mikva

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Just now buy food for Shabbos in the supermarket I met Yosef Chaim Goldshmidt, who's been going to Uman since he's 5 years old, almost 30 years ago. His father helped take care of Saba for a few months in Bnei Brak and he had a lot of crazy stories. He told me two.

1. His father says that when he would take Saba in his wheelchair up the steps, it wasn't heavy at all.

2. Once the mikva was closed so he took Saba to some ruins where there was a pool of water, the water was green and extremely murky, and there were loads of mosquitos and bugs. He was hoping that Saba would opt out, but Saba went for it, and calmly did 310 complete dips.

Na Nach Nachma Nachman MeUman!

Billions of books of Rabbainu!

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Saba told Meir Yimini OBM to tell Aaron Patz OBM, that when he's under the water in the mikve praying for the books of Rabbainu, he should pray for BILLIONS not just millions...

Na Nach Nachma Nachman MeUman!

ב"ה המצב באומן

ב"ה זה המצב באומן, יש שני אנשים טובים אמרקאים שתוך כמה שנים לאט לאט הרכישו את כל שטח הציון והקלויז, ועשו את זה ככל הנראה לשם שמים למען הקים הענין של רבינו לתפארת, וחוץ מעצם הרכישה היו גם כן מתנדבים הרבה כסף כל שנה על הוצאות. סך הכל מדברים על אולי כ40 מיליון דולר. אכן אף אחד יודע איפה הלך רוב התמורות שלהם, וכנראה כל מיני רבנים ועסקנים ומי יודע היו מקבלים סכומים מכובדים.....

ועכשיו המצב הוא שהאנשים הטובים האלו ככל הנראה אבדו את עיקר העשירות שלהם, שהש"י יחזיר להם כל עושרם ועוד פי כמה, והם בצרה גדולה על זה שהם רוצים להמשיך לעזור ואין להם. אכן באמת הם עדיין עוזרים קצת, וגם יש להם קשרים לחברים ומביאים כסף דרכם.

אז על כל פנים אלו האנשים טובים הם הבעלים על המקום, וכל מה שנעשה פה צריך להיות על דעתם. ומה שהיה שב"ה היהודים כל אחד כוכב ויודע את האמת לאמיתו כמובן, וכל אחד מוכר את הדעות שלו לאלו הבעלים, ובפרט הרבנים הגדולים בסתמא השפיעו ביותר, עד ששגעו להם את המוח לגמרי, ואינם יודעים כלום מה לעשות ועל מי לסמוך כל עיקר, וזה מוסיף להם על השמחה הטובה שיש להם כנ"ל.

ולאחרונה לפני כשבועיים כמה בחורים פצועים שקבעו דירתם פה באומן, וב"ה לפחות על ידי זה הם זוכים לבוא מידי פעם על הציון הקדוש ולזכות למה שרוב העולם לא זוכים כלל, ועל כל פנים הבחורים האלו נמאס להם את הענין שהרבה כספים מגיעים לכבוד רבינו ואין להם שום זכר, אז הם פרצו לתוך הקלויז לתוך המשרד ועשו נזק שם ולקחו משם מחשב ואיני יודע כל הפרטים ב"ה.

והנה באומן יש כמה מקואות פרטיות למלונות ולאכסניות, אבל לציבור כולל כמעט כל המבקרים, שכפי מנהג ברסלב צריכים לטבול כל יום וגם לטבול קודם שנכנסים לרבינו -- וחסידי ברסלב בכלליות, דהיינו לא רק איזה חסידים צדיקים, אבל בכלליות היה להם ממש מסירות נפש על הענין הזה, והנה פה אצל הציון, יש רק מקוה אחד, והוא של ישראל גבאי נ"י, שהקים מקואות אצל הרבה צדיקים במרחב הארץ, והמקוה שלו מול הציון הקדוש. ובעתים שיש הרבה מבקרים, כמו בראש השנה או אפילו בחנוכה או ראש חודש ניסן או איזה שבת שבאים הרבה מבקרים, אז תמורות סכומים עצומים הקלויז פותחת את המקואות שלהם. וגם בתוך השנה הם מוכנים לפתוח את המקואות תמורת לפחות $100 ליום, בטענה שזה מה שעולה על החשמל והחלפת המים והפועלים (ויש אנשים שטוענים בודאות שסכום כזה הוא מוגזם לגמרי. וגם רוצים לדעת מה עם כל הכסף של התשלום של ראש השנה שאולי כ15,000 אנשים משלמים $20, והתשלומים של $10 לאיש בחנוכה ובעוד זמנים בשנה שעולים לעוד כמה רבבות דולרים. וזה חוץ משאר הכנסות של הקלויז במכירת הכסאות לראש השנה כל כסא לפחות $60 וכסא במקום סביר כבר עולה הרבה יותר ויש כסאות כמדומנים שכבר יותר מאלף דולר, ומדברים כמדומני על הרבה יותר מאלף כסאות. וחוץ ממכירת העליות וכיבודים של ראש השנה שעולים לרבבות אלפים, וחוץ משאר הצדקות שמאספים שם...). וכמדומני שתמיד רצו יותר כמו $200 ליום, אבל איני בטוח, ויכול להיות שהיה יותר.

והנה עכשיו ישראל גבאי הנ"ל מתקן ומיטיב השירות חסד של המקוה שלו ועושה שיפוצים, ובתוך כדי העבודה נהיה אונס (ויתכן שזה היה גם כן מעשה היזק, ומי יודע) שכל הבורות של מי גשמים שמקיימים לטהר את המים החדשים ששואבים להחליף ולנקות את המקוה, כל הבורות הוריקו, ונשאר עכשיו המקוה של מים שאובין, שאמנים מועילים לטבילת תקנת עזרא, אבל אין בהם דין מקוה כלל (חוץ מדעת יחיד שאינו מובא להלכה כלל של רבינו יצחק שאומר שמקוה של מים שאובין הוא מקוה דאורייתא), אז נשאר הציון בלי שום מקוה לטבול.

אלו האנשים הממונים על הציון הקדוש באו להחלטה שהם מסכימים להביא מהכסף הציבור לשלם להקלויז כל הכסף שהם רוצים כדי שיהיה מקוה בשביל הנמצאים אצל רבינו הקדוש. אכן עכשיו אלו האנשים הממונים על הקלויז, וכלל גם הבעלים לא רוצים בשום אופן ליתן לאנשים ליכנס להקלויז, כי לא שוה להם כל הבעל הגן, והם באים בטענה שהרי עכשיו אלו שנמצאים בציון הקדוש פרצו לקלויז וגמרו כל כך נזק, אז בשום פנים ואופן לא מגיע ולא ראוי לפתוח לאף אחד את המקוה בקלויז. אכן ב"ה אחר הרבה תחנונים אחד מהממונים עשה חסד גדול והוא אישר להשומרים, שכמה שעות כל יום ליתן לאנשים ליכנס. אז יש אפשרות כמה שעות ביום ליכנס להמקוה של הקלויז ב"ה.

והנה המקוה של הקלויז, בתוך החורף, המים קרים מאד, יותר ממקוה האר"י, ויותר מספסופה... ממש כמעט קרח. וככה זה מתנהגת כבר שלושה ימים עד עכשיו. ואתמול אחד מהחסידים היקרים שנמצא פה דיבר אם אחד מהאחראים על הקלויז חצי שעה על הטלפון וביקש והתחנן לו שכמו שהוא אישר שיפתח את הקלויז כמה שעות, שיתן גם לחמם קצת את המים, וזה האחראי לא הסכים כלל בטענות כנ"ל ואדרבה צעק על החבר שלנו על הנהגתו שהוא בכלל לא עשה מחאה או משהו נגד אלו הבחורים שפרצו לקלויז, אז בקיצור בשום פנים ואופן לא יחממו את המקוה אפילו בתשלום הגון מאד.

 

 

ב"ה אנו נמצאים פה אצל רבינו הקדוש, נהר המטהר מכל הכסמים, שכדי ללכת בתוך קרח מסוף העולם עד סוף העולם רק להגיע פה לחצי שניה להגיד נ נח נחמ נחמן נחמן מאומן. ואנחנו פה ב"ה חיים חיים טובים מאד, ואמנים אנו גם רוצים לזכות למקוה, שהשם יתברך יתן לנו בקרוב בזכות הפתק הקדוש.

 

ועוד מעט בעזה"י נזכה להעביר את הציון הקדוש לירושלים בב"א.

 

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