Azamra / Rabbi Nachman: Who He Was - Part 13
אזמרה
Source: https://ajew.org/reader/azamra/1/13

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7. A Jewish person needs to always look at the wisdom within everything in order that it will enlighten him so that he can come close to G-d through each thing. Because this wisdom is a great light and it will enlighten all his ways. [Likutay Moharan 1]

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8. All the deficiencies are in reality only deficiencies of 'daas' (realization of knowledge), as the Talmud revealed, if one has daas he has everything, and if one does not have daas, he has nothing. [Likutay Moharan 21]

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9. Everybody says there is this world and the coming world. Behold, the coming world -- we believe that the coming world exists; perhaps this world also exists in some world, because here it looks like hell, for everybody is full of great afflictions all the time, and he (Rabbi Nachman) said that this world does not exist at all. [Likutay Moharan vol. 2, 119]

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10. Know! You need to judge every person favorably, even someone who is completely wicked, you need to search and find any little bit of good. By finding in him a little good and judging him favorably you actually bring him over to the side of merit and you can return him in teshuva (repentance). [Likutay Moharan 282]

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11. A person also needs to find in himself a little bit of good. Because no matter how low a person is, how can it be that he didn’t do one good thing in his entire life? [Likutay Moharan 282]

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12. Every single Jew has a point in them that is uniquely precious. And it is with this point that he bestows upon, enlightens, and arouses the heart of others. We all need to accept this arousal and this unique point from each other. As it says, “And they receive one from another” (Isaiah 3). [Likutay Moharan 34]

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13. Every single Jew has in him a portion of G-d above. [Likutay Moharan 35]

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14. Every single Jew is a portion of G-d above, and the essence of G-dliness is in the heart. This G-dliness, which resides in the heart of a Jewish person, is infinite, for the light of its flame reaches infinity, that is, his yearnings and desires are without end or limit. [Likutay Moharan 49]

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15. Just as G-d constricted His infinite light in creating the world, for due to the greatness of the light there was no room for creation, so too a person needs to constrict the infinite light of his heart in order to serve G-d in measure and in steps, for if the light would remain unconstricted it would be impossible to serve Him. So it turns out, that this “constriction” of light, of both good and bad desires, actually makes room for its own “revelation.” [Likutay Moharan 49]

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16. There are two concealments. When Hashem is hidden in one concealment, it is certainly very hard to find Him, but nevertheless, since it is only one concealment a person is able to exert himself and search until he finds Him, for at least he knows that Hashem is hidden. However, when Hashem is hidden in a concealment within a concealment, that is, the concealment itself is hidden from the person, in other words, he has no idea that Hashem is hidden from him, then it is extremely difficult to find Him, for he doesn’t even know that Hashem is hidden. (In this atmosphere the Kingdom of Evil prevails, encouraging people to covet and desire to amass and accumulate possessions). Even still certainly G-d is there giving life and sustenance, and when one reads aloud the Torah, which is in fact a composition of the Names of G-d, he is calling G-d to reveal Himself, and all layers of concealment are transformed to be the most profound and intimate presence of G-d! [Likutay Moharan 56]

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17. There is no despair in the world whatsoever! [Likutay Moharan vol. 2, 78]

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18. Wherever a person is, even in the depth of defilement and filth, G-d can be found, even in the lowest places it is G-d who is sustaining everything with the letters of the Torah. However, due to the impurity, the Torah there must be of the most secret and esoteric. Even still, when one holds on to the belief in G-d, and screams out to Him, “Where is my holiness?!” He reveals the signs of G-d, and gains profound G-d Knowledge. [Likutay Moharan vol. 2, 12]

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19. A person must know that “G-d's glory fills the entire world” (Isiah 6), and “There is no place void of Him” (Tikunay Zohar), and “He fills all worlds and surrounds all worlds” (Zohar)… even in the most defiled places there is G-dliness, for He gives life to everything as it says, “And you give life to everything” (Nechemia 9). So even if a person is stuck in the lowest of places, he cannot excuse himself and say, “I cannot serve Hashem here because of all the thickness and materialism that attacks me always,” for even there you can find Him and cling to Him and do complete teshuva (repentance), “For it is not far from you” (Devarim 30), only that in this place there are many garments.” [Likutay Moharan 33]

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20. This is the Tikun Haklali, the general rectification. Whoever destroys his sexual impulse, it will be easy for him to get rid of his other evil desires. For all other impulses stem from this one. [Likutay Moharan 36]

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21. Whoever breaks free from the lust for food can become a miracle worker. But someone who is stuck in this desire it is a sign that he is a liar. Even a Tzaddik who already freed himself from all desires and then falls back into the desire for food, it must be that something false left his mouth. It also shows that there is judgment upon him from above, and it is a sign of poverty. [Likutay Moharan 47]

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22. If you believe that you can damage, then believe that you can rectify! [Likutay Moharan vol. 2, 112]

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23. It is a great good deed (mitzva) to be happy always. [Likutay Moharan vol. 2, 24]

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24. Sadness is very very damaging. Sadness is from the “other side” (i.e. realm of evil). [Likutay Moharan vol. 2, 48]

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25. Man has to pass through in this world on a very very narrow bridge, and the principle and main thing is not fear whatsoever. [Likutay Moharan vol. 2, 48]

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26. When one enters the devotion of G-d, he must be obstinate and hold himself up no matter how he much he's thrown down. [Likutay Moharan vol. 2, 48]