The main thing is to make it to the tzadik - a parable

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There was this kid who got his hands really filthy, and he only had one napkin, and people watched how he used the entire napkin just to clean part of one finger. So they asked him wouldn't it have been smarter to use it to get the maximum amount of filth from his hands. The kid explained to them, that had he used the napkin against the collective filth it wouldn't have been nearly sufficient and his hands would have remained filthy, but now that he cleaned off one of his fingers he can reach with into his pocket and get out a whole bunch more....

The moral of the story is that if one purifies the bris - the tzadik - by making it to the tzadik he can easily merit to everything.

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!