The Fakes pretend and take credit fooling even themselves

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The Life of Our Leader Rabbi Nachman 

#455

Regarding the matter of the false famous people who exist now, to whom it sometimes seems that they are effecting something. For example, when people come to them for children and the like, and afterwards that person is blessed with children and their wish is fulfilled, they then attribute it to themselves that they caused it.

He gave a parable:

It is like a person who is walking on the road and encounters a wolf, and he was afraid of it. He extended his stick and made a motion with his stick as one does with a firearm, which they call a biks (rifle), as if he wants to shoot the wolf with his stick so that the wolf will be afraid of him.

In the meantime, someone else was actually shooting with a real firearm and killed the wolf. And it seemed to the one who extended his stick that he was the one who killed it. He does not know that the wolf was killed by the one who actually extended the firearm, for certainly they cannot kill the wolf with a stick.

The aforementioned matter is exactly like this. For there are true Tzaddikim (righteous people) in the world in every generation, who effect everything through their prayers. All blessings for the good, and all matters in the world are all through them.

And these false famous people imagine that they caused it, and it is exactly like the one who says that he killed the wolf with his stick, as mentioned above. For in truth, everything is only through the true Tzaddikim, because they effect everything, etc.

Great blessings of Na Nach Nachmu Nachman Meuman!