{
  "bookId": "fires-of-israel",
  "part": "1",
  "torah": "28",
  "title": "Fires of Israel - Part 28",
  "hebrewTitle": "אשי ישראל",
  "sourceUrl": "/reader/fires-of-israel/1/28",
  "plainUrl": "/reader-plain/fires-of-israel/1/28/",
  "segments": [
    {
      "index": 1,
      "he": "מסירת נפש למען הדפסה",
      "en": "[Continuing regarding the Prayer Leader]"
    },
    {
      "index": 2,
      "he": "מסירת נפש למען הדפסה\nהיה יהודי אחד שהיה מוכר משקאות. היה מוכר יין, יין-שרף, כל מיני משקאות. קראו לו 'רבי יום טוב זלוטניק'. הוא היה מפורסם, ליטאי. אלא שהוא נתקרב עם לב בוער כזה - שלא איכפת לו החנות והמשפחה והילדים. רק רבינו, רק רבינו! והוא היה מדפיס - אז לא היה קרן הדפסה, לא היה בשביל מי להדפיס, אבל הוא בער להדפיס ולהדפיס ולהדפיס. הכלל, הוא התחיל להדפיס ה'משיבת נפש', 'השתפכות הנפש'. והלא אי אפשר לאיש אחד להוציא כל נכסיו כדי להדפיס, אבל אני ידעתי שיש לו לב בוער כזה לרבינו. והיה לו חנות, והיה לו חדר קטן ששם היה נכנס ללמוד ספרי רבינו, ואני הייתי רגיל ליכנס באותו החדר. \nואני היה לי משפחה גדולה, ובביתי אין שום חתיכת לחם, הילדים מסתובבים ככה. ואני הלכתי לר' יו\"ט זלוטניק, נו, אם אני יגיד לו, משמע שאני בא לר' יו\"ט כדי שיתן כסף - שצריכים לחם. אז לא דיברתי כלום מזה... \nוהוא היה חכם, והבין שכל המטרה שלי בזה הוא רק כדי שנזכה לקרב את כל העולם לרבינו, שידפיסו את ספרי רבינו. ואני רציתי לחזק את היהודי הזה, כדי שיהיה חזק בזה. הכלל, היה באיזה יום ששי אחר צהרים, וחגרתי עצמי בעזות, עם גבורה. אני ביישן בטבע, לבקש בעצמו נדבות... הכלל, נכנסתי לאיזה חנות, והוא נעשה מבוהל, הוא ראה פנים כזה, עם התלהבות כזה, עם גבורה כזה, הוא הכיר. הכלל, נתנו לי. בקיצור, הלכתי מחנות לחנות, ראיתי שהקב\"ה מצליח דרכי ונותנים לי. ובאותם הימים - קיבצתי שבעים וחמש פרוטות! נו, אני הלכתי, לא בשביל לחם - לא בשבילי! הלכתי כדי שיהיה איזה התחזקות לאותו אברך. כן, הלכתי עם שבעים וחמש פרוטות, ונתתי לו! כלום, שום פרוטה! יום ששי בערב, נתתי לו תיכף כדי שיהיה להדפסה... (השואל; זה היה הרבה כסף? אה! היום אי אפשר לשער את זה - אין שום השגה מה שאז היה כסף! גם אני התפלאתי, אבל הלכתי עם כזה התלהבות, כמו ה'בערגער'... \n* \nנו, יכולים לחשוב שאני מספר דברים בטלים, מעשיות שהיו פעם; לחם, כסף. לא! זה הכל דרכים יקרים, אין כזה בעולם, זה רק בכוחו של רבינו הקדוש שיכול לעשות כך - שיהיה איזה עני ויקבץ שבעים וחמש פרוטות, והולך תיכף למסור לו בשביל שיהיה לו התחזקות להדפיס... \nוזה לא בדרך הטבע, זה למעלה מדרך הטבע, למעלה מן המקום, דבר כזה. וזה רק בכוחו של רבינו הקדוש שיכול לעשות דבר כזה, שיכול לעשות ר' ישראל כזה, שיכול לעשות כזה עני - הוא נעשה משוגע והולך מחנות לחנות, ונבהלים ממנו, ונותנים לו נדבות יפות - - והצלחתי, עשיתי שבעים וחמש פרוטות בזמן קצר כזה!... \n* * *",
      "en": "The holy Rebbe (-in the capacity of the Prayer Leader of Story #12) goes about in the world, and also by us – as long as we are not privy to the power of the holy Rebbe'n – that this world is absolutely nothing, the main thing is only the tachlis, the main thing is just Torah and prayer – one can waste the (-his) years, make peace, and be a Breslover… However [one must be] such a Breslover – that the holy Rebbe tells over in the story of the Prayer Leader – that he spoke with the poor men, he spoke of the tachlis. When someone wanted to draw himself close (-Saba first uses the Yiddish word for bonding) to him, to bind (-then Saba uses the Hebrew word of divaikus) himself to him – he would immediately (him) – that is what is written – immediately he would take him to his place that he had outside of civilization! This infers that civilization with Rebbe'n – do not agree! They are not congruous!…."
    },
    {
      "index": 3,
      "he": "",
      "en": "As long as we (we) don't know the pure truth, and one is a smart guy (-relies on his smarts), and one desires to be – one desires to have face (-presence, status, interaction) in this world, one desires to have money, one desires to have “yaishoos” (-substance, entity) – a “yaish” (-entity) in this world – as long as one does not run to the holy Rebbe'n, one does not give himself over to the holy Rebbe'n, as he taught us! - - He taught us the opposite from this world! Like the holy Rebbe speaks of this (Story of the Prayer Leader), that suddenly men went missing from the country, and it wasn't known where they were, by this one a son was missing, by this one a son-in-law was missing… and the Country of Wealth wondered – that there is found a man who speaks such things?! Who speaks such things against their faith, that money is absolutely nothing, just Torah and prayer! So they said that this must be the Prayer Leader!…"
    },
    {
      "index": 4,
      "he": "",
      "en": "And similarly the men of the King, the ten men of the King who went lost by (-at the time of) the storm wind, and they began seek and find each other, they saw, they searched each other out – here they found the Geebor (-mighty warrior), here they found this, here the Adviser, each time the group became bigger, they found each other. They saw that HY had mercy, that they found each other, once again they found each other. They were – this one here, this one there, and they didn't know one from the second, and they found each other! Another one, another one, another one, they found each other! So they said, that this is in the merit of the kosher Prayer Leader! Everyone, everyone said – the Prayer Leader! And he spoke with the Country of Wealth! Not the Geebor (-mighty warrior), and not anyone, just the Prayer Leader!"
    },
    {
      "index": 5,
      "he": "",
      "en": "[Rabbi Nachman's Stories]"
    },
    {
      "index": 6,
      "he": "",
      "en": "And similarly, that which we see in the first story, what the holy Rebbe said, “On the way I told over a story, which whoever heard it had a thought of repentance!” This is the introduction, this is the first story, the beginning of all the stories, the introduction! This the holy Rebbe gives us to hear – whoever has ears, that every story – not just that story – in every story there are complete structures, there are many concepts, it goes out from this and goes into this, this is all – whoever hears this, has a thought of repentance! (*See more about this in the introduction to the Stories)."
    },
    {
      "index": 7,
      "he": "",
      "en": "This the holy Rebbe gives us to hear, that it isn't just to be read – one must inculcate it in the mind! One must look well at what is going on here! What is being said here! And similarly in every Torah (-holy teaching), and similarly in every prayer!"
    },
    {
      "index": 8,
      "he": "",
      "en": "From where did there become a R' Yisroel (Karduner)?! Not from the Torah and the prayers?! And this is (true) till today! It is not the way to say, “Once there was a R' Yisroel,” “Once the world was frum (-pious, devout, Heaven fearing),” “Today it is like this!” - - No!! It was once – and it “is”!! There was a R' Yisroel – and there is!! There was a Rebbe, there was a Prayer Leader - - by the Legendary Tales it is written, “Once there was a Prayer Leader,” however, the Prayer Leader was – and he is!!! And he deals with us! And he teaches us! And he takes care (/worries, concerned) of us!"
    },
    {
      "index": 9,
      "he": "",
      "en": "(*Life of Our Leader Rabbi Nachman, article 225, “And in the night before his passing away, he said, “What do you have to worry, being that I go before you, and what, if the souls that didn't know me at all, they await my rectifications, all the more so you etc.. And so too even those that didn't merit to know Rabbainu o.b.m. in his life, when they come to his holy tomb, and support themselves upon him (/it), and they learn his holy books, and they accustom themselves to go in his holy ways which are enumerated in his holy books, certainly they have what to rely upon, fortunate are they, fortunate is their lot, and they will not err all who take refuge in him, because he already revealed his volition in many expressions, explicitly and in hints, that everything he does with us isn't only for us, but for those that are here and those that are not here etc..)"
    },
    {
      "index": 10,
      "he": "",
      "en": "By the world this is mamash (-really) a Purim play – the Likutay Moharan, with Likutay Tefilos – if they see someone saying a lot of Likutay Tefilos and crying before Hashem Yisburach; - Nu nu, this is a coarse young… this is an ignoramus… he says so much Likutay Tefilos…"
    },
    {
      "index": 11,
      "he": "",
      "en": "Nu, I have actually seen precious souls, however, the way R' Yisroel said Likutay Tefilos – and the Shabbos that I saw by him, and the Succos, with the Shavuos, and the melodies, with the joy - - it was something unique in the world! He was “The work of My hands for glorification (Isaiah 60:21 – see earlier where Saba said that R' Shlomo Wexler said of R' Yisroel the verse 49:3)!” HY's handiwork! The work of Hashem! The finger of G-d (Exodus 8:15, and see Psalms 8:4 and the Malbim there, that “finger” denotes direct attribution to HY whereas hand can refer to what was brought about by His Will even indirectly)!!!"
    },
    {
      "index": 12,
      "he": "",
      "en": "I Won and Will Win"
    },
    {
      "index": 13,
      "he": "",
      "en": "We see how the truth is victorious! How much the world is far from Rebbe'n, from hisbodidus, Likutay Tefilos - - so we would need to be abnegated before the world! And if all the greats (“gedolim”), all the greats of the generation (“gedolay hador”) are distant from this, they laugh at this – we would need to be abnegated! - The more time passes by, we would need to desist! And in the end we see that the philosophers, the great men of the world, the men of science - - they needed to nullify the Rebbe completely! Because he was so much against learning wisdoms and languages, even of the greats of Israel that speak of chakeeroas (-philosophical questions and scientific research)! (*Life of Our Leader Rabbi Nachman, article 407). - They needed to decide amongst themselves that he has absolutely no part in any wisdoms and any intelligence, and even not to speak of him whatsoever! And in the end they were abnegated – after such words, after such a type of opposition that the holy Rebbe opposed them – they are abnegated!"
    },
    {
      "index": 14,
      "he": "",
      "en": "(Speaking about a famous Israeli Politician whom Saba drew close to Rabbainu)"
    },
    {
      "index": 15,
      "he": "",
      "en": "He once told me, that once he entered amongst big professors, and they sat together and they spoke, they spoke about the holy Rebbe'n, and he came in and he heard how they say, “The Rebbe says like this.” He asked, “Who is the Rebbe?” One of them answered him – he was a big professor, a big philosopher, in short, he (the professor) said to him, “Do not mix in between us, you are an am hu'uretz (ignoramus), you know absolutely nothing! If you don't know that stam (-plain) “Rebbe” is the Rebbe Rabbi Nachman – you are an am hu'uretz (-ignoramus)!…"
    },
    {
      "index": 16,
      "he": "",
      "en": "And similarly – this is by them! And even by us, by the frum (-Heaven fearing, pious), the yeshivas – who speaks of the Litvisheh (-of the school of Lithuania, where the study of Talmud was favored over Chasidus) Yeshivas – there are great men, greats (-leaders) of the generation (“gedoalay hador”), who made books of mussar (-ethics). Nu, today they wonder, what is this?! Why epes (-all of the sudden) such a type of commotion?!… What is this?! Likutay Tefilos?! Hisbodidus?!"
    },
    {
      "index": 17,
      "he": "",
      "en": "The holy Rebbe said however, “I finished and I will finish (*Life of Our Leader Rabbi Nachman, article 229)!” - So they are nullified! They are nullified! They see epes (-somehow/something of) the finger of Eloakim !"
    },
    {
      "index": 18,
      "he": "",
      "en": "- Where does one get epes (-somehow, something) the money to print?! Where does one get (-the merit?) to sell the books?!…"
    },
    {
      "index": 19,
      "he": "",
      "en": "- And I merited to see with my own eyes the power of truth! How R' Yisroel was victorious over the whole world! He had such a holy mind, that by him in (his) heart and in his mind it was by him something to laugh at – it had absolutely no value by him, no importance, the entire world! (*See The Days of Rabbi Nussun, volume 2, article 32, “Did not Rabbainu say that you laugh from the whole world etc..”). He didn't announce this – he didn't say that he is such and such! But by him, he knew what goes on epes (-something/somehow) in the world!"
    },
    {
      "index": 20,
      "he": "",
      "en": "And he saw – he felt this, that this will conquer the world! Even though we are now found in exile, to be mocked and scorned, however this is such a type of power that will win over the entire world! From R' Yisroel I received this – not that he told it to me, just that HY helped me to understand it, to recognize, one hundred percent, without any doubts!"
    }
  ]
}