Likutay Moharan - Volume 2 - Torah-teaching 92

Repair for a Nocturnal Emission

A repair for a nocturnal emission, Heaven forbid, is to recite ten chapters of Psalms, as explained in the first book [Likutay Moharan I:205], see there the matter. For the ten chapters of Psalms correspond to the ten types of melody with which the Book of Psalms is said [Pesachim 117a, Zohar Emor 101a, Pinchas 223a, Tikkun 13] (see Rashi and the commentator there), which are: bracha [blessing], ashray, maskil, and so forth. For these aforementioned ten types of melody have the power to nullify the power of the husk and the aforementioned defect, for they are the opposite of the husk and the aforementioned defect, as explained there in the first book. And know that this matter of the aforementioned ten types of melody, which correspond to the aforementioned defect, is alluded to in these verses: Bracha: "I will bless Hashem who counseled me, even at night" [Psalms 16:7]. Ashray: "Happy is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered" [Psalms 32:1]. Maskil: "And what is a wise woman" [Proverbs 19:14]. Shir: "At night, His song is with me" [Psalms 42:9]. Nitzuach: "To the conductor, do not destroy" [Psalms 59:1]. Niggun: "I recall my melody at night" [Psalms 77:7]. Tefillah [prayer]: "Is tasteless food eaten without salt" [Job 6:6] (see Rashi there and Tikkun 47). Hodu: "Lest you give your splendor to others" [Proverbs 5:9]. Mizmor: "Who gives songs at night" [Job 35:10]. Halleluyah: "A woman who fears Hashem, she shall be praised" [Proverbs 31:30]. And understand these allusions well. And know that these are the ten chapters that one must recite on the day that an impure event, Heaven forbid, occurred to him: "Michtam leDavid"—16; "LeDavid maskil"—32; "Ashray maskil el dal"—41; "Ke’ayal ta’arog"—42; "Lamenatzeach al tashches"—59; "Lamenatzeach al yedusun"—77; "Tefillah leMoshe"—90; "Hodu laHashem kir’u vishmo"—105; "Al naharos Bavel"—137; "Hallelu El bekodsho"—150. And these ten chapters of Psalms are a very, very great repair for the aforementioned matter. And one who merits to recite them on that day need not fear at all anymore from the awesome defect of the event, Heaven forbid, for certainly it is repaired through this. And in the merit of the repair of this sin, may our righteous Messiah come to gather our dispersed, as it is written: "Who builds Jerusalem, Hashem, He will gather the dispersed of Israel" [Psalms 147:2], speedily in our days, Amen. [Strength, the book of Likutay Moharan, Second Part, is completed, praise to the Supreme G-d who acquired heaven and earth, and these add to the first ones, what I gathered from his holy conversations.]