The Virtue of Saying Na Nach Nachma Nachman MayUman 5-9

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For in reality the mentioning of the names of the tzadikim is a very, very wondrous and awesome matter, and is extremely beneficial for the devotion of Hashem Yisburach.

(Yimay Moharnat – The Days of Our Teacher Rabbi Nussun 17).

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The virtue of mentioning their names is unfathomable, and it would consume many folios to explain some of the immeasurable good virtues/benefits/advancements which are produced/grow from this.

(Shaimoas Hatzadikim – The Names of the Tzadikim)

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And this is the aspect of the virtue of mentioning the names of the tzadikim, because in the holy name of each and every tzadik, (in it) is included the entire nature/essence of the tzadik, all of his righteousness, and his Torah, and his good deeds, and all of his virtues and his (spiritual) levels, because the name is his nefesh (-lower soul) and his neshama (-higher soul) as explained above. And therefore through mentioning the name of the tzadik we draw upon ourselves his holiness and his merit, and through this we as well will merit to holiness, and purity, and to return to Him blessed He. For example, when we mention the name of the Tana[1] Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai, in this name is included all the deeds of this Tana, that he was in the cave for thirteen years and authored the book of the Zohar, and all the stories which are related of him, all of them are included in this holy name – Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai. And similarly with the other names of the tzadikim.

(Likutay Halachos, Orach Chaim 2, Things that are practiced at a meal 4:6)

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Through mentioning the names of the tzadikim the power of their ruach hakoadesh (-Divine Inspiration) is aroused, and faith in the inception (-new creation) of the world is drawn into the world, through which there is drawn a radiance from the future renewal of the world which will be through this as mentioned above, through which the world will be conducted in the aspect of providence (-hashgacha) and supernatural wonders.

(Likutay Halachos, Orach Chaim 2, Washing Hands for a Meal 4:6).

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In the future there will be aroused a new song of the aspect of the wondrous, the aspect of providence (-hashgacha), because then there will be an administration/policy solely by means of providence (-hashgacha, i.e. there will be no apparent randomness or natural course of events). And this new song which will be aroused in the future is the aspect of a song which is pashoot (-simple, single), kufool (-double), mishoolush (-triple, triangular), miroovuh (-fourfold, square/d), which amount to 72 (Eyen Bais. Y, Y”H, Y”HV, Y”HVH = 10, 15, 21, 26 = 72), the aspect of kindness (-chessed = 72), through which there will be a renewal of the world in the future, the aspect of (Psalms 89:3), “the world is/will be created with kindness <chessed>.[2]”

And know my brother, the reader, that in the matter of the new song which will arouse in the future which is explained in this discourse[3], which is the aspect of the call which waters the Garden where all the fragrances and fears grow, which is the aspect of the call of the worthy rebuker who increases and gives pleasant fragrance in the souls of Israel who hear his rebuke, which is the aspect of Messiah, the aspect of (Genesis 49:15), “and he became a taxed worker,[4]” see there. There is in all this very deep and lofty secrets, secrets of secrets, esoterics of esoterics, very awesome, as could be understood from his (-Rabbi Nachman’s) holy motions when he mentioned the verse (Ruth 4:14), “Blessed is G-d who did not withhold from you a redeemer etc..” For I heard that from his holy motions, of blessed memory, then, and from the pleasantness of the voice and melody that he said this verse, it appeared as though he himself as well was giving praise and thanks to Hashem Yisburach for giving them such a redeemer to engage in the rectification and the redemption of their souls and in the drawing forth of the spirit of Messiah through the drawing forth of such wondrous and awesome rectifications. And (it was) then, on this Rosh Hashana, he related the matter of the melody and the song that will be the Oalum Habuh (-Future World, reward) of all the tzadikim and chasidim (-pious), as is explained elsewhere.[5] And it was understood that this (song which would be the reward of the righteous) is pertinent to the new song which is explained in this discourse.

(The Life of Our Leader Rabbi Nachman 43).

Na Nach Nachma Nachman MayUman!

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[1] Sage of the Mishna.

[2] The entire verse is relevant: “For I have said, a/the world is/will be created with kindness [alternatively: a world of kindness will be created], (in the) Heavens, (you) establish Your faith in them.”

[3] Likutay Moharan volume 2 Torah 8.

[4] Rabbi Nachman revealed (article 10) that “taxed <li-mass>” is like the Hebrew word for rubbing, which is done to bring out the fragrance, and “worker <oavaid>,” is a reference to Oavaid who is mentioned in the end of the Book of Ruth as a scion in the royal lineage of the House of David. The previous verse and the beginning of this verse further allude to the different aspects and steps of this awesome discourse, as revealed by Rabbi Nachman there.

[5] The Life of Our Leader Rabbi Nachman article 267, made into a song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPoyGWKPO30.