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.

Bliss of the Century

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Rashi brings from the Scriptures and Our Sages o.b.m. that the decree to banish the ten tribes from Israel to be scattered around the world to this very day was because of their rampant imbibition of alcohol. The Talmud says that the high that one gets from alcohol is deducted from his portion in the future world G"f. This certainly applies to the high of drugs. Rabbainu was adamant and particular that even on Shabbos the drinking of alcohol should be extremely restrained and kept in check. Rabbainu revealed in Likutay Moharan (volume 2, Torah-teaching 7 – the very first Torah that Saba learned from Likutay Moharan together with R' Yisroel Karduner) that it is our task and duty to fill the world with people, and people are those with daas – sense and reasoning, and one without daas is likened to an animal, see there.

In our times when a very significant percentage of humanity is very dependent on drugs of all sorts and alcohol, there must be a parallel aspect in holiness, for that is how God runs the world that there is always "zeh li-oomas zeh" – equal opportunity on both sides, and of course the side of holiness will obviously be much much more powerful. Also many have already pointed out that the trend of more and more nakedness and less and less modesty is also apropos to the great spiritual unveiling, as Rabbainu revealed, that many things that were great secrets in the past are already now open and revealed, and many awesome spiritual concepts are readily available and within grasp of the public. There is a responsa from the time of the Gaonim (about 1000 years ago) in answer to a request to reveal some secrets of the Kabala, and the Sage writes that with great awe and trepidation etc. etc. he will begin by telling the names of the Ten Sefiros. This was a great revelation for them that demanded great awe and trepidation, today it is common knowledge not even given a moments thought. Also with regard to music, one of the greatest pleasures in life, as Rabbainu revealed in the story of Ancient Times of the exchanged children, that there are melodies that transcend immeasurably all the pleasures of this world, and elsewhere he revealed how there is an angel with a thousand tongues and each tongue etc. etc. the melody being pleasurable beyond this world. Today thank G-d almost everyone has access and ability to listen to the music of their choice in very high quality, something that in the past was extremely limited to either royalty or public occasions like weddings.

So people really have to start getting with the program, and start to learn how to get the highs which are obviously part and parcel of our times – they must start getting them from Nanach.

There is a tradition by chasidim that there is a special light one gets when learning the commentary of the Muggen Avrohom (on Shulchan Aruch – Code of Jewish Law, also known to frequently site the writings of the Arizal). Where the Shulcha Aruch writes the halacha that it is forbidden to cry on Shabbos, the Muggen Avrohom writes that this prohibition doesn't forbid they crying out of dvaikus (-clinging to Hashem). Here the Muggen Avrohom reveals a little secret, that one can really bliss out on dvaikus – to have tears of ecstasy streaming down ones face, without any drugs or alcohol or anything, just to bliss out on G-d – and this is straight up in the Shulchan Aruch.

Rabbainu revealed that one can sit and feel Hashem Yisburach's looking upon him, to the extent that the person will blanch, all the blood will rush out of his face in humiliation before the Infinite One blessed He. Imagine the ecstasy of such an experience. Rabbainu sited the words of Our Sages o.b.m. that a sigh breaks the body of the sigher, and Rabbainu said that he tested and experienced this, he sighed and witnessed how his strength was depleted – imagine falling into such surrender into the hands of Hashem Yisburach, like a beloved falling languish in surrender into the strong powerful hands of her lover. These are just a few examples, for in fact every word of Rabbainu is a gateway to experience, not just in the future world, but mamash right here and right now the most wondrous ecstasy, euphoria, exhilaration, excitement, elation (the mnemonic is e=5^th letter of the alphabet), bliss and so much more, if one sets his mind to it and is committed to abnegating himself to Hashem Yisburach and His Tzadik Na Nach Nachma Nachman MeUman and to His Torah.

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The Secret of Na Nach Nachma Nachman MeUman and the holy Petek

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Previously I posted the following article about the general concept and import of the holy Petek:

http://naanaach.blogspot.co.il/p/hh-thesecret-of-petek-bhmany-people-are.html


Now I'm pleased to add the following article in which I begin to examine Na Nach Nachma Nachman MeUman itself. B"H this is an ongoing developing project which I hope to update and share regularly. Please pray for this.... NNNNM!

http://naanaach.blogspot.co.il/p/the-secret-of-na-nach-nachma-nachman.html

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Harvesting the bounty of Heaven - the field - with Song

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This morning I was translating Rabbi Nussun's second introduction to Rabbi Nachman's Stories of Ancient Times, and he brings from the Holy Sefer HaBahir (brilliant light) which is quoted in the Zohar

.. And look in the book of the Bahir (62-63, brought) in the omissions (#44) of the Zohar (Torah portion of) Beraishis (265b its place, pg. 49a), for what is written there regarding, "Come my beloved, let us go out to the field (Song of Songs 7:12)" etc.: a parable 

So doing my homework I dutifully checked the source, and saw that Rabbi Nussun skipped over a very interesting revelation on this verse, "do not read it as the field (suddeh) but as the song (sheerah)!" That is where it is where our reunion with HY is happening in the song!

The Ramchal explains (beginning of Adir BaMurom) how the Shechina is in the fields, and that is why the Rashbi and his students would always go out into the fields to study the Torah, and almost all the secrets of the Zohar are from such escapades. The Ramchal says that even when one is sitting in his house, in order to access and be in tune with the supernal worlds he must create for himself the spiritual atmosphere of the field. This is obviously part of why Rabbainu was insistent that everyone goes out every day (especially at night after sleeping and getting up for midnight) into the fields.

From this Sefer HaBahir we have better understanding of what Saba said that often when he used to go out to the fields with other Breslovers, while they were doing their hisbodidus with HY, he was singing and dancing. The field and the song are the same aspect, the song is the completion of the field! Those who plant the field with tears, reap the harvest (michatzdei chakla as explained in Adir BaMurom there) with song!!! Awesome!

Na Nach Nachma Nachman MeUman!

The Secret to Understanding the Torah

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In the holy book Yosher Divrey Emess (Straight Words of Truth) he writes that everything he received from the Maggid of Mezretch (the main disciple and successor to the Baal Shem Tov) he already had known, for he was a huge scholar in his own right, the only difference was that what he hear from the Maggid he received with conviction as if he heard it from the Tanaaim (Sages of the Mishna). From this we learn that the real key to understanding the Torah is the importance that one attributes to it. How much one is “mispaael” (roused, worked up, inspired, blown away....) from the Torah.

The Vilna Goan points out that the holy books begin by stating who their author is. This is intrinsic to understanding the content, because knowing who is speaking is the key. When a ten year old gives a business tip it doesn't carry any weight, but when it comes from someone renown, the same tip becomes a strong principle.

There are different versions to the story, but the basic gist of it with regard to the above, that one of the great scholars went to test out the Baal Shem Tov, and the Besh”t gave him to read and explain a passage from the Eitz Chaim (work of the Arizal), the scholar did so, but the Besh”t said that it was not satisfactory, the scholar applied himself again unsuccessfully, and yet again. Finally the scholar told the Besh”t that's the best I can do, if I am not correct please show the proper interpretation. The Baal Shem Tov took the holy book and told the scholar, “Stand on your feet!” The Baal Shem Tov began reading the passage aloud, this particular passage mentioned the names of various angels, and as the Besh”t read their names the angels appeared.... The Baal Shem Tov then told the scholar, your explanation and understanding was correct but it was utterly deficient.

On the first word of the Torah, “Beraishis” Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai revealed 70 different interpretations and expositions which are said to have an entirely different meaning every hour, each interpretation encompassing intelligence which can explain the entire working of the known universe and supernal worlds. We look at this word and see so little, but when Rabbi Shimon considered this word it was the Tikunay Zohar.

If you want to begin to understand the Torah, you have to take the time to contemplate and actually feel the enormity of the awesome power it is packing. When the Jews stood by Mt. Sinai and heard G-d speaking to them their souls flew away, and they jumped a mile away, angels had to bring them back, and G-d provided special dew to resurrect and restore their souls. This is really what a person has to be prepared to take when preparing to learn the holy Torah.

By the Baal Shem Tov the holy disciples would hear the thunder and lightning that was by the giving of the Torah! Rabbi Nachman questioned those about him, if they too heard these callings.

Na Nach Nachma Nachman MeUman!

Secrets of the Torah

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Secrets of the Torah

Some people consider the Zohar and the works of the Arizal to be “nistar” (hidden) – the “secrets of the Torah”. However this is a big mistake. The Yosher Divrey Emess (“Straight Words of Truth” an extremely powerful little book composed of two long letters. Recently I found out that I am actually a descendant of this great person. My brother-in-law who is a big Rosh Yeshiva has a great aversion to this amazing book, because he has witnessed some of his best students become broken from it. What a blessing these boys were saved from living lives of mediocrity and tasting in their hearts and souls the utter necessity for true existence. Yes, if it can't break you it can't make you.) contends that this is ridiculous. How can books that are readily available to the public be considered secrets?! Who has a secret that he divulges to anyone interested? The Yosher Divrey Emess asserts that those scholars who have mastered the TaNaCh (Torah and Prophets – Written Torah), the Talmuds, and Medrash, and purport to being complete scholars of the revealed Torah, just deficient in the Concealed Torah, waiting for when they are worthy, these people are completely deluded living in hypocrisy. A person who has not mastered the entire Zohar, works of the Arizal, and other such works can not pretend to be a scholar what so ever. These are books readily available and readily understandible for anyone who sets out to study them and know them. So what then is the Concealed Torah?

Rabbi Nachman says that the secrets of the Torah are such that even when they are spoken and revealed they remain secret. Sometimes they can be grasped by a person only in passing, and later a person will not merit to fathom that which was in his grasp.

The Baal HaSulam explains with a parable, if you see two people whispering, it won't really interest you, but if you hear them whispering your name – that they are whispering about you, then you will be completely intrigued and extremely curious to know what they are saying. When a person studies the Torah and hears his name being whispered – he senses how the Torah he is studying is directly speaking to him personally, he is in essence learning the secrets of the Torah.

[This is where chabad lubavitch philosophy went off. The original holy leaders felt that if they would exhaustively explain and describe their personal attainments, they could somehow jump start their followers to taste their experience. However the true tzaddikim of the generations did not feel that this approach was truthful. Consider explaining to someone how pizza tastes by offering them a ten volume treatise on its ingredients and similarities to other food etc.. Or consider explaining to someone the thrill of a rollercoaster.... The secrets of the Torah are very much levels of personality in the Supernal Man, how can one relate responsibility by skirting it - spoonfeeding someone who should be called to duty?!]

The main secret is: Na Nach Nachma Nachman MeUman!