Every person is obligated to say, the whole world was created only for me! (Sanhedrin 37, Likutay Moharan 5)

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 When I first set course to promote the truth I had realized, I considered my personal advancement and contribution to society as a bonus to the general efforts on their part. With time I realized that I must recognize my own (and a few close Nanach associates) achievements as the rudimentary base of true direction in the world, and any advancement or contributions of others as a bonus.

This is something tricky to articulate without sounding like a false messiah or a deluded leftist. However the reality is that every person has to come to this realization (perhaps just like Rabbi Nachman says that every person must find the point of Messiah inside himself), and the determining factor and indicator of the reason, veracity, and intent of this realization is delineated by Rabbi Nachman in Likutay Moharan, Torah 5. Simply put, how much is the person working on fixing the world, and praying to G-d for the salvation of the world, and using even his simple idle talk to channel Divine mercy and pardon.

Na Nach Nachma Nachman MeUman!

Beard Power

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There's an article going around which claims that beards contain a lot of filth. Now a good Jewish beard is cleaned at least once a day before and after the daily dip in the mikva. Even still it is important to understand the root of the problem. The beard being the root of all of Heaven's bounty - livelihood and sustenance - as our Sages revealed that "bunay (children) chayay (life) umizonay (sustenance/livelihood) bimazal (in the beard, specifically the 8th and 13th sections of the beard) tuluy (are contingent)." Money, it is well known how filthy money is, both allegorically and in actuality, so it is no surprise that in money's root, from where it is channeled down, from the beard, there might be some filth found there. However the more we purify ourselves, our motives, and intentions, the more clean and holy our beards will be, and our money.

Na Nach Nachma Nachman MeUman!