Saba Yisroel was originally a Karlin chassid. This gives special meaning to the holy dates of 22–23 Tamuz: the passing of Rabbi Shlomo of Karlin, and the next day, the day on which Saba Yisroel received the holy Petek of Na Nach Nachma Nachman MeUman.
In the Hebrew year תקנ״ב (5552), corresponding to 1792, Rabbi Shlomo of Karlin was shot in Ludmir, Ukraine, while standing in prayer, by a Russian Cossack soldier named Armilos.
After five days, on 22 Tamuz תקנ״ב / July 12, 1792, Rabbi Shlomo of Karlin succumbed to his wounds. In the Chassidic world he is understood as bearing an aspect of Mashiach ben Yosef.
The next day marks the opening of the succeeding light. It is deeply fitting that on 23 Tamuz Saba Yisroel received the holy Petek from Rebbe Nachman.
The Karlin vacuum and the Na Nach revelation
Shortly after Saba received the holy Petek, on 16 Elul, the “Yenuka Kaddisha” — the Rebbe of Karlin who had become Rebbe at the age of four and a half — passed away. This left a vacuum and void in Karlin, and the children were forced to split everything up and diversify.
The timing is striking: from the sacrifice of Rabbi Shlomo of Karlin, to the receiving of the Petek by Saba Yisroel, to the new dispersion in Karlin — Saba emerges as the clear spiritual inheritor and leader, revealing the simple, doubled, tripled, quadrupled song of redemption.
נ נח נחמ נחמן מאומן
Great blessings of Na Nach Nachmu Nachman Meuman!
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