The Way to Uman

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Rabbi Nussun said he would go to Uman to Rabbainu even if the roads were paved with razors....

So one of my friends wrote to me:

S.G. My son's mashgiach told him last Elul that if he sees a movie on the way to Uman, then its not worth going. My son told him that R' Nosson said even if the road was paved with knives etc - The movies on the plane are like the knives in the road.Simcha Hochman HH the knives can refer to haughtiness, as it says in the Torah (devorim 33:4) חרב גאותך
The tzadik is the humility in us (Likutay Moharan).
NNNNM

It is brought down (don't remember exactly where) that there were a group of chasidim that were trying to make it on foot to Uman in a time of extreme danger and they had to go at night very surreptitiously etc., but they refused to forgo any nuance whatsoever of Judaism, they insisted on immersing in the mikva every day and not missing out on the reading of the Torah or anything, which meant that they often had to backtrack to a previous place. But I'm not sure if they made it.

Na Nach Nachma Nachman MayUman

נקמה -- מנהג לשים סכין בתוך קבר יהודי הנרצח - The custom to burya murdered Jew with a knife

ב"ה

סיפור שאינה לא ידוע, ונשכח בהיסח הדעת, אבל יש לנו ללמוד מהר ממנה למעשה, ובעזה"י נראה נקם מאויבינו, בזכות הפתק הקדוש של נ נח נחמ נחמן מאומן:

In the writings of the great Breslover Hasid, R' Shmuel Horowitz ob"m (a best friend of Saba Yisroel, receiver of the holy Petek of Na Nach Nachma Nachman MeUman), he records the following story:

There was once a very successful Jewish merchant, and the gentiles were jealous of him and they ambushed him and killed him R"L, HYD. He was buried with a knife in his grave, as that was the custom to so bury a murdered Jew. Afterwards the gentiles began to see this Jew chasing after them with a knife, and he would kill them one by one. They had no idea what was going on, but there was an apostate Jew amongst them who revealed to them the custom, and they decided to dig up the grave and if they would find it to be true that there was a knife there, they would G"F wipe out the Jewish community. That night the Rabbi of the city, the holy Ba"Ch was studying the whole night and before sunrise he dosed off and in a dream he was warned to quickly remove the knife from the grave, he didn't pay much attention to the dream, until it occurred again and again. So he immediately ordered for it to be done, they went to the grave and dug it up and they found this Jew clutching the knife in his hand and they were unable to release it from his iron grasp. They informed the Ba"Ch. The Ba"Ch told them to tell the Jew that they would accept upon themselves various virtuous rectifications of Torah learning, prayer, and good deeds if he would release the knife, but it was to no avail. They were running out of time, so the Ba"Ch himself went over and whispered something into his ear, and with that the murdered Jew gave up the knife, and they quickly resealed his grave. No one knew what the Ba"Ch had whispered, until it came time for the holy Ba"Ch to pass away, and he commanded that he be buried next to this Jew....... 

זה הסיפור פתחתי עכשיו, מתוך הרבה הרבה חומר, שכמעט התייאשתי לעיין בה בכלל, כי תפסת מרובה לא תפסת, ואז החלטתי לפתוח למשהו, ופתחתי לזה הסיפור, שהיה בימי הב"ח - הבית חדש (פירוש מכובד נדפס על צד הטור שולחן ערוך) חותנו של הט"ז (טורי זהב - פירוש נכבד נדפס על צד השולחן ערוך), שהערלים נתקאנו בסוחר יהודי מצליח, ורצחו אותו, והיהודים קיימו את המנהג לשים סכין קטן בתוך קבר הנרצח, ואז הגוים ראו את היהודי הנרצח רודף אחריהם עם הסכין, והוא הרג מהם אחד אחד, ולא היה מפסיק עיין שם כל הסיפור... כן יאבדו כל אויבך השם.

נ נח נחמ נחמן מאומן

נ נח נחמ נחמן מאומן

Revenge - a murdered Jew is buried with a knife - and he takes them out one by one

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In the time of the Ba"ch, the gentiles were jealous of a successful Jewish merchant, so they murdered him R"L. When they buried him, they put a small knife in the grave, as was the custom for a murdered Jew. Afterwards a gentile saw this murdered Jew chasing after him with a knife, and he killed him, and this reoccurred time and time again, and he was intent on killing all of them... until an apostate Jew figured out what was happening, and the gentiles said that the next day they would dig up the grave and if they found a knife there they would G"F kill out all the Jews. That night the Bach's father came to him in a dream and warned him to remove the knife from the grave, the Bach didn't believe in dreams, but it happened 3 times, so he took note and sent the Chevra Kadisha to extract the knife. They dug up the grave and saw Yosselle with the knife in his hand, and try as they might they couldn't remove it. So they told the Bach, the Bach told them to tell Yosselle that they would learn mishnayos for him and all sorts of such favors, but it was to no avail, Yosselle wouldn't give up the knife! It was nearing daybreak so the Bach came in person, and wasn't successful. Finally the Bach whispered something in his ear, and Yosselle gave up the knife, and they sealed up the grave. That day the gentiles dug up the grave and saw that there was no knife. No one was able to divulge from the Bach the secret which he whispered into Yosselle's ear. When the Bach died he revealed that he promised Yosselle that in return for saving the city, he as the Rav of the city would be buried next to him, and so it was...


Na Nach Nachma Nachman MeUman