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Showing posts with label parable. Show all posts
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Wednesday, August 27, 2025

A Parable to Understand Repentance on Repentance - Likutay Moharan Torah-teaching 6

HH 
Torah 6 is about Elul. 
Rabbainu explains there the concept and the avoda - devotion - of doing repentance on repentance, because after repenting a person reaches a higher level and will be ashamed of his previous level and repent for being that way.
Parable:
A guy finds an old lady disoriented and in bad health, his consciousness doesn't give him rest, so he takes her in and helps her out a bit... Then he finds out it's his mother/daughter..... Now he regrets the lackadaisical meaningless help he gave..... And so too with our recognition of G-d..

Na Nach Nachma Nachman MayUman


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

HH

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


HH

Parable:
There was once a big convention of the greatest minds of times, nobel prize winners and the most renown scientists, researchers, and inventors, each one lecturing and sharing their wisdom. The convention took place on a luxury yacht. There was a simple little Jew running from group to group trying to get their attention, but for the most part he went unheeded. He claimed that despite the great wisdom of those present, he possessed knowledge far more superior, but his cries were dismissed and ignored completely, what could this poor fellow know that could contend at all with the great wisdom being discussed. There was one humble fellow who was curious what in fact could this guy know that he felt was superior to everything else?! So the little Jew told him, “There’s a big hole in the bottom of the boat, and it is going to capsize….”

Rabbi Nussun in Likutay Halachos, Laws of Slaughtering (5), elaborates beautifully in his inimitable style on this concept, how the greatest wisdom of all is the realization and consciousness of the impending end and tachlis. This is a wisdom that our holy Sages excelled in acquiring and disseminating.


Na Nach Nachma Nachman MeUman!



Monday, February 19, 2018

The Praises of Rabbi Nachman - part 2 - His Voyage to Israel - 34 to End

HH
Shivchay HuRan
Part 2
34.
And it was already heard from his holy mouth that he said, that there are tzadikim that served (Hashem) and labored until they merited some high level, each one according to his prominence/virtue, like for example by a king whose ministers merit through their service, each one to some prominence, to some high office according to his service. However, of himself he said, that if he were to know that he is now on the same height and level as a year ago, he would not be conciliated ("desirous of") with himself at all, (and he spoke disparagingly of himself regarding the aforementioned matter if he were to remain in the level of the previous year), just, every time he ascends from level to level.
And there is a very great deal to speak about this matter, however, it is impossible to relate all of this in writing whatsoever, only someone who merited to see with his eyes and hear with his ears was able to fathom in his heart a slight bit of this matter, how he never stood on one level anytime, just, immediately he would yearn to ascend to a higher level until he merited etc. and so forth forever. And he was a great novelty in this matter. And all of this is according to our minuscule grasp (-comprehension), but there is more to this, there is in this matter hidden secrets, wondrous wonders, but suffice with this.

35.
And regarding the matter of "the tachlis (-ultimate extent or purpose) of knowing is not to know," he also spoke with us a little a few times how in every knowledge there is this tachlis. And therefore even though one merits to come to this tachlis of not knowing, even still this is not yet the final tachlis, because this is still not the tachlis of the (-all) knowledge just for this knowledge, and it is necessary afterwards to labor to merit to a higher tachlis, to merit to a higher level of the tachlis of not knowing, and so forth forever. (And this is already explained a little in our words elsewhere). And this matter is very extremely deep and hidden. And there is more to this matter, what we heard one time after Passover, and it will explained elsewhere G-d willing (see The Life of Our Leader Rabbi Nachman 282, Rabbainu said that he had just gained knowledge that the tachlis of knowledge is not knowing, means really not knowing, and this is something that seems obvious and cannot be explained, but was a new understanding, and even though he had now attained this understanding he still knows nothing, because previously he had also thought that he had come to this tachlis of not knowing and yet only now he understands that it is to really not know, and he had been very far from this new comprehension, see there).
36.
One time a king sent three men to a country with a secret message to a different king. And they passed through countries where there were opposers to the king.
And the first (of the three men) conducted himself shrewdly, and concealed the matter completely, and he crossed the country and they didn't discern at all that he has (-had) a hidden agenda (/secret message). And the second (of the three men) traversed there, and the people of the country picked up on the matter, and they understood that he has a secret agenda/message and they grabbed/incarcerated him so that he should tell (it to) them. And he acted shrewdly or with might, and he escaped from their hands. The third (of the three men) traversed there, and they also caught on to him, and they figured out that he has a secret, and they incarcerated him, and they tortured him with very profusely with many, many tortures, and all that they did to him, tortures, and torments, and great duress, and (-even still) he didn't say anything, and he withstood the trial and didn't reveal the secret. Until they saw that nothing will work on him and they let him go (because they thought that he presumably doesn't know anything at all), and he passed through and came to the king.

And they were appraising which of the aforementioned three is deserving more reward. Some said, "To the first more is due, because he acted shrewdly to be completely discreet." Some said, "To the second more is due, for they had already figured out his intent and even still he escaped from them with his wisdom etc." as mentioned above. The king said: "To the third is due more reward than all of them, because he was already caught in their stronghold, and certainly he also wanted to be discreet but was unsuccessful, and he was caught in their hands. And they tortured him and made him suffer with such suffering and torture, so that were he to reveal one secret, everyone would have been chasing after him, and even still he stood up to such a test and did not reveal anything, therefore he deserves more reward than all of them. (And the moral is slightly understandable a bit to the understanding).
The End
Na Nach Nachma Nachman Meuman


Tuesday, February 13, 2018

The Praises of Rabbi Nachman - part 2 - His Voyage to Israel 28-30

HH
Shivchay HuRan
Part 2
28.
And the epic enormity of his hasaga (-spiritual conception) that he attained in the land of Israel is impossible to explain and relate whatsoever, mamash (-really) there is not heard nor is there seen the likes of this, that one born of a woman should merit to such hasaga through the atmosphere of the Land of Israel (-the Talmud Bava Basra 158b reveals that the atmosphere of the Land of Israel make people wise), and it is impossible to speak or talk about this. And he boasted profoundly of himself, with what he merited to be in the Land of Israel, and also at the end of his life he said that he vitalizes himself immensely with his having merited to be in the Land of Israel. And he said: "This I know already, that when a person wants to do some matter of holiness and he has impediments on this etc.," as all this explained further on.
29.
And the man who denigrated him exceedingly in Istanbul (-see above article 9) passed away immediately upon his arrival home. And the aforementioned man that was with him asked Rabbainu o.b.m.: "Does it not say (Proverbs 17:26), 'Also punishment is not good for the tzadik (-Rashi in Tractate Sanhedrin 105b explains that it isn't becoming of the tzadik to have people punished on his account, i.e. even if they are guilty and culpable, so why did Rabbainu bring about this man's demise)'?" And he answered him with a parable regarding this: That there was a king, and h e loved one of the children of the nobility, and he showed him affection, and drew him close with all types of love and affection. And afterwards when he grew up, he was brazen against the king. And the king said: "Know, that even though I love you very much, even still it is impossible for me to disregard the law and ordinance of the kingdom. And your judgement is decisively for death. And immediately the king commanded to restrain him in iron fetters, And put him in prison.
And this son of nobility began to picture in his mind the suffering that he will have from the death, and he saw that his pain would not be drawn out a long time, just until he was killed. However, when he began to picture in his mind the pain of the king, he saw that the pain of the king would be very great because the pain of the king would be always. Because he knows that the king loves him very much and he will have great yearning after him, and great anguish forever. And he had more pity on the king's pain than on his (own) pain. And he contemplated contemplations how to save the king from his pain. And he came to the following resolution: Behold embarrassment is considered to be like death (Bava Metzia 58:).
And he instructed the administrator of the prison to admit him in before the king. And he said to the king: "I know the truth, that your pain is greater than my pain, however, it is impossible for you to disregard the statute and law of the kingdom. Therefore this is the advisable recourse, bring about with ruses, that someone will embarrass me in public, and the shame is considered like death. Therefore, see to it to take from the captives a thief who is to be sentenced to be killed, and I will intimidate him until he gets mad at me, and denigrates me, and hits me in public, and I will be incurred great embarrassment, and it will be considered like death. And afterwards take the thief who is liable of death regardless (of this) and kill him as is his penalty. And the world (-everyone) will think that because he denigrated the cherished servant of the king he was killed, and the honor of the kingdom and his servant shall not be profaned.
Thus, sometimes someone denigrates that tzadik, and in reality he does a great favor for the tzadik, because he brings atonement to him for what he was liable to pass away, exchanging it for this embarrassment. But even still it isn't the honor of Heaven not to exact revenge from this person who denigrated the servant so beloved to the king. But to punish this person who denigrated the tzadik for what he did, is also not pleasing before Him, because "also punishment on account of the tzadik isn't becoming." Therefore, He blessed He "turns around stratagems (Job 37:12)," and stands up against the tzadik such a person that is already culpable of death and punishment. "And He summons both of them to the same inn (Makos 10b, regarding bringing about the punishment of someone who killed unintentionally unnoticed)," and this person denigrates the tzadik, and the tzadik is thereby exonerated from his penalty as mentioned above. And this person is punished afterwards, and the Name of Heaven is sanctified, because (ostensibly) on account of the honor of the tzadik he was punished. And in reality "he killed a dead man (Bava Kama 41a)," because he was already liable for his punishment previously. "And the ways of Hashem are straight (-just, upright) (based on Hosea 14:10)," "and there is no injustice in Him (Psalms 92:16)."
30.
And in the Land of Israel he engaged in Torah and prayer, and every day he wrote by himself his Torah (-original holy insights). And he boasted tremendously and said that the difference between the Torah of chutz-lu'uretz (-outside Israel) to the Torah of the Land of Israel is like the distance between east and west (see Beraishis Rabah, parsha 16 - there is no Torah like the Torah of the Land of Israel etc.). And every single day the big/great with the small went to him to wait on him (-sheemoosh - attending to the tzadik is the greatest way of gaining his wisdom and holiness) in order to hear the wisdom of his very extremely holy and awesome Torah.

Na Nach Nachma Nachman Meuman


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

HH

Once a upon a time, in the near future, a group of friends discovered a way of mutating all the cells so that they became much stronger and invincible from viruses and the like, it also enhanced many other facets of life, promoting enormously more intelligence, creativity, happiness etc.. The friends set to work and built their own little society where they cultivated this with tremendous success, and thus they lived an extremely good life. They then decided the time had come to share the wealth, and help out all the rest of mankind, so they wished to send one of them to the outside world to set the positive mutations in progress. All the emissary would have to do is live, breath, and interact, and inherently his molecular structure would spread and take hold of his surrounding. No one wanted this job, to have to leave the extremely good life to descend to the miserable standards of the rest of the world. Even still one person was selected, probably the strongest of them, and sent off. This person suffered tremendously in his new surroundings, he had been used to such excellence and now he was utterly confounded. This was very depressing and even debilitating. A message was sent to him from his friends - what you are doing by just being there, none of us can achieve no matter, depressed or whatever, just by being there you are effecting the most amazing rectification possible.

So it is with the Jewish soul in this world. As much as it suffers and is distraught in this foreign atmosphere, just by being here it is effecting the most incredible rectification possible that no spiritual entity no matter how high and powerful can effectuate. So be happy, be Nanach!

When one is happy the process is infinitely more powerful and effective...

Na Nach Nachma Nachman MeUman!


Wednesday, April 19, 2017

The way to know Gd personally and directly

HH
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

HH

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

HH

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

HH

A king once had a special crown made for the love of his life – adorned with priceless huge diamonds and gems, and when she put it on, one of the diamonds pressed very painfully into her skull, what to do? She wasn't about to get rid of the diamond. So she went out consulting, and everyone was at a loss how it was at all possible that the King's jeweler would design such a faulty crown. Eventually someone examined her head and determined that she had a tumor growing in that spot which was pushing up against the diamond, and immediately she had the life-threatening tumor removed, and then the diamond fit snugly and comfortably.

This is an embellished version of a parable Rabbainu revealed in his Likutay Moharan, end of Torah 6, explaining how every Jew is a beautiful precious gem in the crown of HY, and if one suffers offense from another Jew, he must examine himself and determine what it is that he needs to fix, why is this diamond not adjusting well with him?!


Na Nach Nachma Nachman MeUman!


Tuesday, November 15, 2016

Humility

HH

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

HH

This is a beautiful parable which I didn't do justice to in writing it up, for the time being here it is in a skeleton form, maybe one day I or someone else will merit to develop it and write it up properly:




What is involved


A king sent a message to one of His subjects commanding him to come to the palace. The message explained that the palace was under siege and was only accessible by a certain route, which the message described partially and vaguely. Upon receiving the message, the subject embarked to find the route and get to the palace. He had to wander about a great deal until he finally found the correct way. Along the way he was attacked by a swarm of bees and wild animals. Once while scaling a cliff he fell and nearly killed himself.

When he finally made it to the king, the king received him with love and affection. The king explained to him how his adventurous expedition had in reality saved the kingdom. At first, when he was blundering about the enemy feared that he had mapped out all their positions, and retreated from their attacking positions. The swarm of bees that he had instigated, proceeded to attack the enemy, and when he fell from the cliff he caused an avalanche which caused great destruction to the enemy army.

The upshot is that by making his way to the king as he was commanded, this person brought down the entire army that was attacking the king. And so it is with our devotions and seeking out HY, everything we undergo has enormous ramifications that we may know nothing of, and as we get closer to HY so too we liberate the forces of good and demolish all the forces of evil.


Na Nach Nachma Nachman MeUman!


Thursday, May 19, 2016

Daas - Realization of Knowledge

HH

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.

HH

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

ב"ה
לא ניתנה תורה אלא לאוכלי המן – The Torah was not given – except to those that ate the manna

Many years ago I read a book by a nuclear physicist (if I remember correctly I think his name was Cyril Domb, he was a ba'al teshuva who died young R"L) and in one chapter he propounded an idea that kedusha which transcends this world, should be realized as traveling faster than the speed of light, for as object approach the speed of light they get larger and larger, so he figured that if they can beat the speed of light, they can transcend the space of matter, and this is the concept of the Holy Ark in the Holy of Holies that did not take up any space (See Rabbi Nachman's stories of Ancient Times, of the Seven Beggars, the 5th day, the Hunchback Beggar, there Rabbainu revealed that to get to the tree which stands out of space, one needs to acquire it's attributes, the body (trunk) of the tree is truth (this is in fact light, as the verse says, שלח אורך ואמיתך), and its roots are humility, fear of Heaven, and faith).
[This works nicely with an analogy my friend (S.R) always gives to explain why tzaddikim have extra critical judgement by HY, as it says הקב"ה מדקדק אתם כחוט השערה, וסביבם נשערה מאד. So he says it's like a car, as long as the car is just inching along one can turn the steering wheel, and even jerk it which ever way he wants, but when a car is going 200 miles an hour, a little touch on the wheel can send it flying. Kedusha is like faster than the speed of light, so any nuance there makes a world of difference.]

So I was thinking along these lines, to explain why to really receive the Torah one has to get his nourishment only from the manna. Because any food that leaves waste in the body, if the body is on the level of holiness of the Torah, it is like going super fast, and even the smallest iota of waste would be utterly huge to infinity.

Almost 7 years later I wrote more about this in Hebrew: NaNach: לא ניתנה תורה אלא לאוכלי המן (naanaach.blogspot.com)

Na Nach Nachma Nachman MeUman


Wednesday, July 15, 2015

Good news

HH
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