Fight Back

HH

People are getting clobbered by their evil inclination, many have even given up, and many are angry. The Talmud already revealed that if HY doesn't help, a person alone cannot surmount his evil inclination. Drawing on this dictum are programs like the 13 steps which demand that a person acknowledge his own inadequacy and his need for help from on high and from others. Beautiful. The glaring omission which screams out is why doesn't a person at least strike back at this terrible foe who is constantly trying to undermine and trample him?! True, the Talmud warns that one mustn't taunt the Satan, however if one is suffering from the onslaught of the evil inclination certainly it is his right and call to hit back. Thus we find that King David lavished hideous curses upon the evil realms (perhaps the strongest case is Psalm 109). Rabbi Nachman even summoned Satan before a Heavenly Tribunal (no one knows what transpired). There is a prayer from Rabbi Yishmuel the High Priest which bitingly addresses all the evil forces that prey on man - the prayer is available here: http://naanaach.blogspot.com/2018/06/blog-post_72.html.

So if you have had enough of being pulverized by the evil, it might be a good idea for you to dedicate a few minutes every day and call it out directly and return the favor. Instead of being frustrated and angry, mete out all that passion to where it is deserving.

Amazingly two years ago to the day I wrote on this same vein: http://naanaach.blogspot.com/2017/02/know-enemy.html

Na Nach Nachma Nachman MayUman

The Birth of Rabbi Nachman in 1773 heralds the ultimate freedom of Na Nach

HH just as with the birth of Noach great relief was brought into the world (e.g. the invention of the plow and a mitigation of the curse on the Earth to produce weeds instead of produce), so too with the birth of Rabbi Nachman of Breslov, better known as Na Nach Nachman MeUman great relief was introduced into the world, and within 4 years of his birth the American revolution succeeded in setting up the constitution. Today, thank G-d, we have the holy Petek, which itself is everyman's document of freedom, liberty, and emancipation. Na Nach Nachma Nachman MeUman!

The curse of external knowledge of the gentiles

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Rabbi Nussun, the prime disciple of Rabbi Nachman, was the master of seeing only good in people. He received from Rabbainu the teaching and life practice that even in the most evil Jew there is some good point, however small, which one should search out, latch on to, and only see this person through the vantage of this goodness. Rabbi Nussun said that he can explain elaborately any area of the entire Torah, but to explain even the most insignificant Jew he was unable.

This very Rabbi Nussun composed pages and pages of diatribe, castigation, and curses against those who teach and pollute the young Jewish minds with secular knowledge. Today probably thousands if not tens of thousands of Breslovers pray and articulate these words every day! Be aware!

This should drill home the utter evil and danger of secular knowledge.

Today as science manifests its exhibitionism of its measurements and computations, producing tools and devices, it becomes harder to retain the realization of how superficial all of it is, really just an assembly of the empirical in a mechanical fashion so that it can serve humanity in some way. In a previous post Machine Angels you can see how all the services these new robots are providing and many more, were all provided for Adam directly via spiritual forces of angels, and every physical entity is in reality empowered by a spiritual one, and it is a terrible handicap to be blind to the reality and only see the superficial physical shell and credit it for more than what it is, a slave. All the external knowledge of the sciences and all the fields and disciplines studied in the secular world, are simply just that - slaves, at the service of the true inner purpose, nothing more. Don't mistake it from what it is, don't be misled. True it may contain some amazing facets, such is the nature of the creation of G-d Almighty, but in no way does it even begin to touch the true wisdom of the Torah. Every letter of the Torah is true living wisdom of creating value - not simply empirical, stagnant, and dormant. There is a great deal more to be said....

Keep strong.

Na Nach Nachma Nachman MeUman!