Words of Rabbi Nachman - article 10 - Remorse and desire to improve bring on hostility

 

 

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Remorse and desire to improve bring on intensified hostility

 

The wicked are full of remorses[1], and they don’t know at all what remorse is. Because this itself that they strengthen in the matter of their wickedness, this itself is remorse, since because regrets came to their minds, therefore they further intensify in their wickedness.[2] Like two people fighting one against the other, when one sees that his friend (-opponent) is strengthening/gaining against him, he then further strengthens against him (-the opponent). The same exact thing, when the bad see that some good begins to arouse by them, it (the bad) then intensifies further/phenomenally, and understand this.

 

And this is a great principle in the devotion of Hashem even for the rest of the people (-who aren’t wicked), everyone according to their status, that the more one desires to enter the devotion of Hashem, the more the baal-duvur (-litigator, evil inclination) strengthens against him, and this is already explained elsewhere[3]. And it is necessary to be on top of this matter, and to battle it strategically, to overcome the bad with great strengthening each time. Fortunate is he who merits to win the battle.

 

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[1] Raishis Chuchmuh, Shaar HaYeeruh, Chapter 3.

[2] From this we must learn how to judge people (and ourselves) positively even in their wickedness – to try to get a handle on setting them straight. A famous teaching taught by Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach and now made into a popular meme: The kids who need the most love will ask for it in the most unloving ways. Their actions seem to be screaming hate and resentment when in reality they are begging for love and kind attention. The person on the receiving end of these children, to a great extent, holds their fate in his hands, depending on how he reacts – if he can see past the superficial antics and respond to the inner calling for/with love he can make them, and if G-d forbid he gets taken by the outward hostility and responds in kind, he can break them.

[3] Likutay Moharan, Torah-teaching 72.