Wednesday, August 27, 2025
A Parable to Understand Repentance on Repentance - Likutay Moharan Torah-teaching 6
Sunday, July 27, 2025
Likutay Moharan - Torah-teaching 233
233 - When evil thoughts and ponderings overpower a person
When evil thoughts and ponderings overpower a person and he
strengthens and overpowers them and conquers them, there is to the Holy One
blessed be He great pleasure from this, and it is very precious in the eyes of
Hashem, blessed be He, like the parable that there is with kings, sometimes on a
festive day they place several animals to fight (conquer) each other, and they
stand and watch, and they have great pleasure from the fight (conquest),
similarly the thoughts, they come from aspects of the animals (cha’yos, see Tikun
21 at its end), and holy thoughts, they are aspects of pure animals, and evil
thoughts, they are aspects of impure animals, and from Above, they place
intentionally that they fight (conquer) each other, and there is to the Holy
One blessed be He great pleasure when the person overpowers the impure animals
and conquers them.
The general rule is, that it is impossible in any way in
the world that there be two thoughts together at one time, therefore one can easily
chase away evil thoughts by only remaining stationary (“sit and do not do” – shev
vi’al taaseh) that is, not to think that thought, only to think some other
thought in Torah or service or even business, because it is impossible that
there be two thoughts together in any way, and this is already explained in
another place (above in Torah-teaching 72), that one does not need to make war
and to shake their head here and there in order to banish the evil thoughts
because this does not help at all, on the contrary by this they overpower more,
only not to pay attention to them at all, only to do one’s own thing - in what
he is occupied in Torah or prayer or business, and not to look behind him at
all, and by this it automatically departs.
Tuesday, March 22, 2022
Upgrading
HH
If a person goes from being color blind to being able to see full color, he will see everything so much better - both good things and bad things.
If a skier picks a much steeper slope, he will have much more exhilaration, but will also be faced with much greater challenge and risk.
So when a person rises to a higher spiritual level, it is not all roses, he will also have much greater perceptions of evil and will be faced with much greater trial tribulations and challenges.
Thus Rabbainu revealed that often a person feels that he has had a terrible descent and fall, and in reality he is being introduced to a higher level.
And thus Rabbainu revealed that no higher level of Torah conception can be achieved without first undergoing a new onslaught of forbidden sexual desires.
Na Nach Nachma Nachman MayUman
Monday, December 13, 2021
Baby playing with fathers face
HH
When we study the holy Torah and pray with kavana, even though we are still far from meriting to appreciate what we are doing, it is like a baby who plays with his father's face.
Na Nach Nachma Nachman MayUman
Thursday, December 20, 2018
Take Off - a parable
There's a short video clip I just saw, may this be the last and worst of my sins, of a little bird frantically trying to fly off the rail it is perched upon, vigorously and ardently flapping its wings, but alas apparently its legs are frozen to the bar and it can't get free. So someone cupped their hand around the little bird and blew warm air in until its feet were unfrozen from the rail, and then let the bird fly off.
So it is with our service of Hashem, we can be doing powerful good deeds and Torah learning, but if we are frozen to our place we will not be able to take off, to ascend and fly. We need to be cupped by a Hand and blown upon with His warmth, and then we will be free to fly.
Na Nach Nachma Nachman MayUman!
Tuesday, May 1, 2018
The Greatest Wisdom of All - NNNNM
Monday, February 19, 2018
The Praises of Rabbi Nachman - part 2 - His Voyage to Israel - 34 to End
Tuesday, February 13, 2018
The Praises of Rabbi Nachman - part 2 - His Voyage to Israel 28-30
Friday, October 6, 2017
King over Sadness
HH
A parable
Once there was a king who suffered many devastating losses and setbacks, yet he remained entirely upbeat and joyous. Some of his slaves including Sadness and Despair confronted him saying that his attitude was inappropriate. The king replied as long as you are my slaves I have no reason to be sad or despair and I will rejoice in my kingship.
Na Nach Nachma Nachman Meuman
Thursday, August 3, 2017
Seeds of Hope - a powerful parable of why to be happy despite anything
When one is happy the process is infinitely more powerful and effective...
Wednesday, April 19, 2017
The way to know Gd personally and directly
Everyone wants to really know Gd. They tried, they spoke a few words, looked for a sign a miracle, and even if they found something to keep them going, they didn't find Gd in the finite way they would have liked. What is missing?
Parable. A friend tells you he's going to hook you up with some extremely powerful people, and then he takes you to a party, and you have a great time with everyone, and you are left wondering when you're friend is going great to hook you up. But the reality is that those in the party are the powerful people, and partying with them is your connection, and if you want to make a more meaningful, direct, and personal connection you have to see these people for whom they really are, their true power, and directly approach them. According to his conception of their power, so they will in turn relate to him. If he takes them to be simple millionaires, they will respond accordingly, he can gain some business tips, small investment capital and the likes, and if he understands that they are far more powerful than simple wealthy people, holding clout in the government and in major corporate empires, he can gain lucrative and valuable contracts worth fortunes. And if he can understand that their power is even more than all that, he can get them to take him to the top.
So too with HY, everyone in the world is partying with Him, and if they play by the rules they will thereby undoubtedly be making awesome connection with Him. However if one wishes to merit to a more direct and personal relationship and knowledge of HY he must understand who it is that he is with, and approach Him accordingly directly.
Understanding the enormity of HY is gaining the vessel to approach Him directly, and in fact as soon as one has the vessel, the light is already filling it.
Together with the understanding of HY is fear and awe and shame i.e. realization of one's own inadequacy.
Thus our Sages revealed that the gate to Hashem is fear-awe.
This is a simple principle and so profound it is considered the highest of secrets. So I will not elaborate, only understand it well and in practice and merit!
Na Nach Nachma Nachman MeUman
Wednesday, March 22, 2017
The happiness of the parent verses the happiness of the child
It never ceases to amaze me how a child is the complete hope and happiness of a parent, the parent is just so thrilled about the child beyond everything, and after the child passes a very brief period of innocence he is usually filled of worries, doubts, sadness etc. etc.. and all the parent wants is to see the kid happy. And of course the same with Hashem and us, we really have to do away with all the extra thinking and worries and concentrate on being happy for Him.
Na Nach Nachma Nachman MeUman!
Sunday, March 12, 2017
The main thing is to make it to the tzadik - a parable
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!
Thursday, December 8, 2016
The Huge Diamond that is to unbearably painful
Tuesday, November 15, 2016
Humility
How can one attain humility, isn't one's own ego always going to be at work for any attainment (-Rabbi Nussun actually asked this from Rabbainu - and I discuss this there B"H)?!
One has to invite upon himself a realization of something much great than himself. Imagine walking into a miniature world made of sparkling crystals and diamonds and gems - you would forget about yourself - you would just be in awe - that is already humility. Now imagine every step you take you see that you are smearing the surface and darkening the room etc., you would want to disappear, that is real humility.
We must pray to start to get some real conception of the utter magnificence of what the world is about, and we will just want to melt into the surroundings without leaving any markings.
This is in fact the humility of HY, Who created the world with all of creation and left it with no visible trace of Himself.
This is one step of understanding. Now we can understand that in reality all of creation is like a garment to HY who is hiding behind it, revealed and concealed. When one praises G-d's creation, he fixes the garment so that it is revealed. And this is what it says in Psalms, Hashem reigned haughtiness He wears.... The haughtiness of the world that stands as an entity of itself, is in reality G-d's garment of humility which shows His utter unparalleled greatness.
May we merit to many more steps of understanding.
Na Nach Nachma Nachman MeUman!
Sunday, July 10, 2016
Making Our Ways to Hashem Yisburach - A parable
What is involved
Thursday, May 19, 2016
Daas - Realization of Knowledge
Previously I've given some insight into this, here's another parable.
A kid walks into a room full of people armed with a loaded machine gun. Everyone present sees. They all know very well what they see. Only one person, yells GEVALD! and dashes over and jumps the kid and disarms him.
Many people will readily acknowledge that there is One G-d who created the whole world and runs every detail, yet they conduct themselves and carry on their lives with very very little inculcation of this knowledge.
Only the holy followers of Na Nach Nachma Nachman MeUman, are shouting GEVALD! Na Nach Nachma Nachman MeUman!!! There is ONE G-D!!!! There is Rabbainu!!!! There is Torah! There are mitzvos!!!! GEVALD!!! Na Nach Nachma Nachman MeUman!!!
And they can't get past that. As soon as they try to move on, and get involved in some worldly affair, whether it is making a livelihood or passing entertainment, they are constantly catching themselves with the sheer magnitude of the realization: GEVALD!!! There is One G-d! There is Na Nach Nachma Nachman MeUman!
Wednesday, August 26, 2015
General Rectification of the World with Nanach.
This parable I came to from my understanding of what the Ramchal propounds in his awesome holy book Adir BaMurom.
If a deck of cards wired together falls and gets tangled in disarray, there are two ways to go about restoring their order. One would be to take each card individually and put it in it's proper place, the other would be to hold up the wire and all the cards will fall into their proper place.
The latter method we will call the Tikun Hakllali the general rectification.
When people are on missions to fix the wrongs of the world, they are very limited in times, funds, faculty, and so forth. Even if they would be completely successful in their endeavors, the ultimate results would be debatable.
Before I was Nanach I had all types of battles on all sides, against zionism, against the Yeshivos for not studying what is important, against wigs, against immodesty.... Every time I had some change I would immediately rush to make some sort of attack for some such worthy cause. Thank G-d for the intellect and humility to understand that there must be a holy tzaddik who desires much more than me all the necessary rectifications, and knows much better than me what they are and how to go about enacting them (Not so my mother's uncle, Noach Weinber ob"m who decided it was solely up to him to fix the world, and launched Ohr Sumaich, and Aish HaTorah, this is something I explained to him personally, may HY have mercy on his soul).
The Tzadik is very much at the helm of the ship -- Rabbainu Na Nach Nachma Nachman MeUman has full knowledge of what is going on and what has to be done. Anyone with any intellect, who really wants the good of the world, will put aside his or her own little petty notions and projects and fully embrace the ways of Rabbainu. In this way one gives more strength to the collective powers of Rabbainu to bring the complete general rectification of the whole world.
Na Nach Nachma Nachman MeUman!
Thursday, August 20, 2015
לא ניתנה תורה אלא לאוכלי המן – The Torah was not given – except to those that ate the manna
Wednesday, July 15, 2015
Good news
The eyes and heart lust after things that wither away, in the most 50 years those images will have lost all their allure, and after 120 years they will be 6 feet under eaten by worms.
The good news is that all those who struggled not to be drawn after these false attractions, eventually when they will be freed of their evil inclination, and even as they become older and lose the intensity of the lust, they will be rewarded quite naturally by the tremendous relief they will feel, the new freedom, that aside front he great reward they will get.
But those who play to the empty temptations of this world, which are in fact just holographic images fueled by passions of blood and gore, these people who wish to consider these things appealing and desirable, will forever be trapped in this emptiness GF, even after there bodies weaken and desires fade their hearts will continue to covet and ache for the empty meaningless shapes and designs that have no real meaning or worth. It won't end for them, they will be trapped GF.
"Disturbing" indeed!
Rabbainu even gave a parable about this, once a coachman was taking some people on a long journey in the freezing Ukraine, and he stopped somewhere and he said there used to be a cavern here where we used to stop and drink....
Na Nach Nachma Nachman Me'Uman