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.

The Praises of Rabbi Nachman - part 2 - His Voyage to Israel 31-32

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Shivchay HuRan

Part 2

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And one time, there came to him one of the greats who was very important in the Land of Israel and in Chutz-lu'uretz (-outside Israel), and in his praise they said that he was proficient in the entire Shas (-Talmud) almost by heart, and he was also of the masters of Kabbalah, and he came to Rabbainu o.b.m. and he warned to remove every person from their company, and no man stood with them when they met together. However, the aforementioned man who was with Rabbainu o.b.m. remained there.

And the aforementioned gadoal (-great person, leader) implored him, and said to Rabbainu o.b.m. these words: "We know that kivoad Toarusoa (-he who is honorable on account of his Torah) didn't come to the Land of Israel like the rest of the populace, with small moachin (-consciousness, acumen), i.e. to walk four cubits in the Land of Israel and be a Ben (-son or member of, entitled to) Oalum Habuh (-the future world) (Kesuvos 111a), or other similar considerations, like the way of simple/ordinary people. Just, certainly kivoad Toarusoa came here with moachin digadlus (-mature consciousness - expanded and higher acumen and conception) and to achieve great hasaga (-spiritual conception) in the service of the Creator blessed He. Therefore it is our (-royal we) desire to know in which point of the aspect of the Land of Israel kivoad Toarusoa entered, and what does he (-speaking in the respectful third person) want to achieve here in the devotion of the Creator? And I am prepared to serve him with my body, and my nefesh (-lowest soul), ruach (-spirit - middle soul), neshama (-third highest soul) etc.."

And Rabbainu answered him: "My dear friend, do not pressure me in this matter. Because it is not simple matter to reveal to you (-respectful plural) Heaven forbid, what this devotion is, and for what I came here. And perhaps I stand already sworn over this (-not to reveal it) etc.."

And the aforementioned great rabbi began again to implore him immensely, and said: "Our inquiry and our request (is that) in any case Rabbainu should teach us some chidush (-novelty in Torah) from his desirable and pleasant chidushim which he was graced with by Hashem. He should grace us as well, and give us to taste from them. And our intention is not Heaven forbid for some ulterior motive, just, our intention is to hear original Torah insights from his holy mouth, perhaps our hearts will be aroused anew for His service blessed He, and also perhaps we will merit consequently to understand and to elucidate some hint of the aforementioned point.

Immediately Rabbainu o.b.m. began to be fierly impassioned with intense flaming of the blaze of Hashem, and his face burned and blazed like actual torches. And from the fieriness his hair stood on end, and he threw his top hat off his head, and he began to say these words: "Do you know the secret of the kavanos (-kabalistic intentions) of the Tefilin?" The aforementioned answered him (with) a few kavanos. He (Rabbainu) said to him: "No, that is not the way of the kavanos of the Tefilin, and because you (-respectful plural) do not know the secret of the kavanos of Tefilin, you do not know the secret of the four winds/directions of the Land of Israel. And now I will begin to reveal to you some hint of this." And it was when he began to speak, blood started to come out of his throat, and he said to the aforementioned scholar: "See now with your (own) eyes that they do not approve from Heaven to reveal to you (-respectful plural) a thing." And immediately when the aforementioned scholar saw this with his eyes, he nodded his head to him (-acquiesced), and asked him (Rabbainu) fervently to forgive him for having troubled his so much, and he was very panic stricken from this, and did not want to budge from there until Rabbainu o.b.m. forgave him.

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Also immediately upon his arrival there to Tiberias, the Rav, the Chusid (-pious, hasid), the famous magnate our teacher, Rabbi Moshe o.b.m., son of the rav, the holy, the famous, our teacher, Rabbi Menachem Mendel the tzadik o.b.m. Veetepesker, sent to him that he wants to make a marriage with him (-i.e. between their children). And Rabbainu o.b.m. replied: "How is it possible to refuse a shiduch (-match)? Presumably 'the matter was issued from Hashem (Genesis 24:50 regarding the match between Yitzchok and Rivkah)' that my daughter should be in the Holy Land," and he did not say anything more.

And immediately the shadchan (-matchmaker) went and replied to the rav, the aforementioned Rabbi Moshe, that Rabbainu o.b.m. consented. And immediately they made a grand feast. And at the feast were all the greats of the Land of Israel, both from the country of Lita (-Lithuania) and from the country of Poland, everyone alike - big and small. And they had great joy/celebration. And during the feast they spoke words of Torah between them, and the main speaker was the aforementioned gadol (-great, leader) who wanted that Rabbainu should reveal to him the point etc.. In the middle of their conversation the location of a certain remark of Rashi eluded them, where its place is. And they wanted to bring it up to their memory because it was very necessary for their issue, and they could not budge from there because of this, and it was a wonder to them, because each and everyone of them had recently finished the entire Shas (-Talmud), and not one of them knew the place of the aforementioned Rashi, where it is stated. And Rabbainu o.b.m. was silent as if he also did not know, however, when he saw that they had great distress from this, and they implored him to no end, he answered up and said to them: "Behold this Rashi, its place is in Tractate Zevachim (-offerings), on this daf (-two sided page) at the top of the amud (-one of the two sides)," and so it was. And this brought them joy and happiness. And this feast protracted from the time of mincha gedola (-half an hour after midday, when one can begin to pray mincha) until daybreak, and a union was made between them.

However, afterwards, when Rabbainu left from there, from the Land of Israel to chutz-lu'uretz (outside of Israel) the groom, the son of the rav, our teacher the rav Rabbi Moshe mentioned above, passed away, and Rabbainu o.b.m. made a match with his daughter who had been the bride of the son of the rav, our teacher Rabbi Moshe mentioned above, with the honorable gaon (-prodigee) the famous rav of the holy community of Volitshisk (-Rabbi Aryeh Leib of Volitshisk za.tza.l. from the greatest disciples of the Magid of Mezritch - his son, Rabbi Pinchas got engaged to Miriam, the third daughter of Rabbainu o.b.m. in Elul 5560, and the wedding was in Cheshvon 5565). And circumstances were brought about from Hashem that the aforementioned Rav and Gaon traveled to the Holy Land, and he took his son, the son-in-law of Rabbainu o.b.m., with him there in order that he would learn by him there. And afterwards the daughter of Rabbainu o.b.m. also traveled there. And the words of Rabbainu o.b.m. that he said, that it was from Hashem that his daughter should be in the Holy Land were fulfilled, and one word of his words will not back down empty-handed.

Na Nach Nachma Nachman MeUman!

Thank Gd we are the victims

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Attributed to Rabbi Chaim Brisker (I think), there are two types of zealots, the man of the house and the cat both hunt down the mice in the house, but the man of the house wishes they were not there to begin with, and ‫the cat desires that there​ should be more and more mice.

The Ramchal in Daas Tevunos reveals the system that Hashem Yisburach enacted in creation to reveal His Unity in cumulative levels against the backdrop of divergence. This introduces a higher aspiration then the zealously coveted by Rabbi Chaim Brisker, not to simply desire that there should be no impurity, but rather to realize purity in the face of all the impurity. This concept is also found in the Legendary Tales of Rabbi Nachman,   in the story of The Humble King, where the wise man recounts to the king all the evils and the atrocitiess in his kingdom turning them around to such high praise and exaltation of the king that the king reveals himself.

Similarly, in the blessings of the morning there are three blessings on cumulative privileges based not on the actual privelege but on the elevation from the lower level.

The story is told of a holy rabbi who prepared his congregation for the approaching Nazis by telling them how fortunate they were that they were chosen to be the victims and not the perpetrators.

In the prayers we bless Gd for creating us for His glory and separating us from those who go astray. This is our merit and privilege to stand at the helm and do what we can to help others and fix the world. Even a society such as Sodom that fosters ten righteous people is demonstrative of the greatness of Gd and has merit to continue, as long as the true tzaddik is actively looking out and praying for them, and that is what we must do now.

Na Nach Nachma Nachman Me'Uman