R' Alter Krementzuger
[Continuing the story of R' Alter Krementzuger] I would go in to (-visit) this R' Alter Krementzuger, and they were the first marriage, he was an old man, and she was an old woman, yeah. And he – even in his old age – the (-his) face was like a seven year old child, a young child, the eyes with the face. By nature when one gets older one gets wrinkles, (but) his face was very soft, not a fresser (-one who eats without restraint), one could recognize on his face. And he never once sat idle. He would descend from the old age home to Rabbi Shimon'en. There were such stones, one could slip, and one could break the hands and the feet. And there are winds over there, between the stones, when the wind goes through it is mamash (-really) - - he held himself to the stones, and in this way he would descend to the bottom. It was mamash meseeras nefesh (-self sacrifice), because he was a delicate man, a light body, not a heavy body, the wind could have carried him away… and this is how he would go the tzion (-holy tomb). And he told me about R' Yisroel'n, that he had heard from our men - - he was drawn close yet before R' Yisroel'n, he was an old Jew, R' Yisroel was forty and some years old, and he was ninety years old. In any event, he told me that he had heard from our men, “If R' Yisroel would have been in the time of Rabbi Nussun'en – he (still) would have been a novelty!” That is what he told me – that, that is what he heard from our men! And he strengthened me that I should be steadfast, that I shouldn't listen to anyone! *** Yeah, all the time nebach (-pitifully, unfortunately) we see that the Shechina (-Divine Presence) is in exile (“Shichinta bigaloosa”), there are “gedoalim” (-greats), gedoalim – who made themselves leaders (“manheegim”) (*), and I know - - there are some which are not misnagdim (-antagonists), and there are some which are big misnagdim, small misnagdim, however, one thing (-is unanimous) – they do not speak at all of the Tikun Haklali (-The ten Psalms Rabbi Nachman revealed to be a general/comprehensive rectification, as they are rooted in the Song of the Future, Na NaCh NaChMa NaChMaN (1,2,3,4=10) Me'Uman), and certainly not of Likutay Tefilos… what is it then – they aren't misnagdim, he doesn't patch (-slap, hit)…. [-BH Today even many of the misnagdim are already strong proponents of the Tikun Haklali, and Saba's words here are befitting to the main root of the Tikun Hakalili, which is Rabbainu's name in the special formula of the Song of Redemption: Na Nach Nachma Nachman MeUman]. (*See Likutay Halachos, Orach Chaim, Laws of Shabbos 5:9, “And if this true tzaddik of every generation would be revealed in the world, and the whole world would be truly drawn close to him, the world would already be rectified. Because this tzaddik has the power to rectify the whole world, if they didn't hide and conceal him. However, in every generation and generation there is the aspect of the wars of (-against) Amulaik, and the main war of Amulaik, may his name be blotted out, is exclusively specifically against this true tzaddik who is the “Roash <head of> Ba-yis <the house>” etc.. Because the klipa (-husk- evil force) of Amulaik is pleased to have Israel draw close to all the heads of the world, even heads that have a part in holiness, that are somewhat kosher men, and even if they are tzaddikim, just that they still have in them some grip of the bad, and they don't have the power to take Israel out of bad to good. Therefore Amulaik is content for all these heads to be greats and famous with prestigious names (-reputations) in the world, and that they should have great elevated status. And his entire evil intention is only in order to hide through this the name of the true “Roash Ba-yis <Head of the House>, who is the head of all the heads of the world, and he is the true “Baal Haba-yis (-Master of the House)” of the world, for the main rectification of all the people in the world to return to Hashem Yisburach is specifically through him etc..” Likutay Halachos, Choashen Mishpat, Laws of Buying and Selling 3:11, “And even totally righteous tzaddikim, not all of them merit to completely break the aspect of the left, and therefore everyone needs to receive from one another (“this one from this one, and this one from this one”), until they all receive from the true head whom is in each generation and generation, who is the tzaddik of the generation, who is “chad <one – unique> bidura <in a/the generation>,” who merited to the point of truth, to utterly break the body, who unites everything to its root etc.. That is, because even great people and tzaddikim, not all of them merit that their learning goes up to the Shechina (-Divine Presence), because few are those who merit to this, and therefore everyone needs, in every generation and generation, to bind themselves to the tzaddik of the generation, for then they merit that the tzaddik will receive their Torah and make from it Torah novelties, and then their Torah and their learning returns and is included in the Shechina through the tzaddik etc..”) *** [Speaking of the President of Israel, Zalman Shazar, whom Saba drew close to Rabbainu] - - Oy vay, oy vay, oy vay, from this itself we see – he needed to come to me?! Was he missing honor?! He had friends, the greatest professors - - with Yisroel Ber?! We see from the wonders of Rebbe'ns! I remember, when I used to sit with him – he would sit exactly (/straight) like someone that knows absolutely nothing of what is going on, exactly like one who knows absolutely nothing, and that is how he listened. And I saw his face, I saw such – I didn't ask him if he was bettering himself, if he is doing teshuva (-repentance) – I never once asked him. I only spoke with him of Rebbe'n, and I told him that he should learn the Rebbe'ns books. And I discerned that it was making a tumult in him, but what and when (Heb: who) – I really did not know. I had a spy, in the house, his sister, and she was extremely happy over this, and she told me, “Since he knows you,” she looked upon me like (at) an angel – “that it is possible to turn him around like this to the diametric opposite?!” And she told me that there is a conflict in the house (-against his return to Torah observance)…. ***