Diligence in Torah Study

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Just now by the holy shrine of Na Nach Nachma Nachman MeUman I was praying to merit to study and learn a lot of Torah, and the gabbai of Tosh approaches me and wants to share with me a Torah he just learned from the writing of the Arizal (Prey Aitz Chaim on Purim), so as I heard him out I was thinking, wow, on the spot Rabbainu is hooking me up to already begin learning Torah. It gets better. The piece is about the letters Samech = 60 and Eyen = 70, which spell out the word SA - go, embark, travel. So I showed him what Rabbainu revealed in Likutay Moharan, Torah 188, that when a person screams to Hashem Yisburach they tell him SA! [This is a song for this holy Torah: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRdWRzG9MDU] Here I was screaming to HY and Rabbainu told me SA - go and learn! NNNNM!

This fellow also feels that if more ice cream was served by the holy tomb there would be more screaming [regarding ice cream check out this informative video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlLScZAn5U8https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlLScZAn5U8] like there was in previous good years when people really felt their deprivation, but this year this almost no screaming, except for a little very near Rosh Hashana. Apparently everyone is already relying on the holy petek.

Na Nach Nachma Nachman MeUman!

Advice to attain diligence in Torah study - do not speak of the faults of any Jew

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Someone asked Rabbainu, on the last erev (-the day preceding) Rosh Hashana of Rabbainu’s life (5571- September 28, 1810), in Uman, close to his demise (-October 16), advice for diligence (in Torah study). Rabbainu answered that he should not speak (bad) of anyone of Israel. Because each one of Israel has a letter in the Torah etc. and when one speaks (bad) of one, he draws himself away from the Torah due to his finding a defect Heaven forbid in a letter of the Torah which is the root of the soul of the one he spoke (bad) of, as is explained elsewhere (Sichos Huran – Words of Rabbi Nachman 91). The person asked Rabbainu, “And if one sees that the person is completely wicked?”Rabbainu o.b.m. scolded him, “How can you say of someone of Israel that he is completely wicked, behold there is certainly to be found in him a remnant bit of good or some good point in which he is not wicked. And he recalled then the matter of “and a bit more (/still remaining) and there is no wicked person,” which is explained in the Torah-lesson I will sing to my G-d with my utmost (/remnant), see there [Life of Our Leader Rabbi Nachman, article 34].

Na Nach Nachma Nachman MeUman!

Genius of the Moment

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Sometimes genius is the ability to attain perfection, more often it is the ability to see the perfection in the imperfect. That translates sometimes into the simple understanding that sometimes the best option - the perfect solution - is to settle for the imperfect and continue.

Rabbi Nussun was a tremendous genius, but before he met Rabbi Nachman this itself worked against him, all his inadequacies ate at him and destabilized him, to the extent that he lost his drive to really prevail in Torah study.

Rabbainu instilled and imbued in him what an awesome privilege, achievement, and delight even one solitary gleaning of Torah is, and from then on Rabbi Nussun's diligence was set, he returned to studying passionately guarding and taking advantage every second, even on his travels - an extremely taxing affair in those days. He found an attainable perfection in the moment before him.

Na Nach Nachma Nachman MeUman!