Extraction

HH

When we do teshuva (repent) we extract all the bits and pieces of our soul which were trapped in all the places we fell. Some of these bits and pieces got wedged and welded strong into those places, and we have to tug and pull with all our might to free them, and when they finally detach and break free they have stuck to them souls that were permanently lodged there R"L. You might have only walked in - took a peek for a minute or an hour G"F - but there are souls that don't know any other environment R"L. And by doing teshuva, and rescuing the little part of your soul that got stuck somewhere not good, you save entire souls that were completely locked away in those awful places.

Na Nach Nachma Nachman MeUman!

Joy has been captured by Evil -- needed: commandos to rescue it!

HH

Just now the Nanach were learning Likutay Halachos about being happy, so I asked them what they learned. So they told me, Rabbi Nussun asks how come the people in the bars and theatres seem to be enjoying themselves, while the people in the holy places seem to be very weighted down? This he says is the manifestation of the galus (exile) of the Shechina, because the Shechina is the called the Joy of Israel, and now that it is in exile, it is dressed in coarse garments. This is why Rabbainu commanded us to make avail of the 'milsa dishtusa' – doing something foolish, this is like a commando mission, to go into the klipa – evil husks, and snatch the joyous Shechina, and escape with her to holiness. So I was thinking that Rabbainu said why is a Jew called an Ivri – because he jumps over the whole world, and Rabbainu would laugh at the vanities of the world, they themselves were for him a milsa dishtusa. What's important is to find something to laugh at, even if it is yourself, and keep laughing, until you get passed the heaviness of this world, and from there on (this Likutay Halachos is based on Torah 24 which shows how to rocket up, from world to world, until the Ein Sof – Infinite One Blessed He), things will be quite thrilling B"H.

 Na Nach Nachma Nachman MeUman!