Fires of Israel - Part 30 אשי ישראל Source: https://ajew.org/reader/fires-of-israel/1/30 Segment 1 HE: ניצחתי ואנצח EN: In '92 (-1832) Rabbi Nussun saw that every year the oalum (-the people) was bigger, and there was no where to pray, each time they prayed in a bigger place. And there was found someone, a wealthy man, who gave over a large place, and provided tables with water. In any event, Rabbi Nussun saw that they were transient – Rosh Hashana, so HY put inside his heart a desire, a strong will that he would build a synagogue! Nu, Rabbi Nussun had no money, and it was very remote to attain so much money – to buy a place and build a synagogue – where does one get this?! There were a few wealthy people, but these wealthy men; first of all – the need to merit, and further – it costs a lot of money, nu, a wealthy man, if he gives a nice donation it is very nice, however, that he should give over a portion of his wealth for such a synagogue?! In any event, Rabbi Nussun strengthened himself in this, and he merited, and he bought a place, and began to build, and the Master of the World performed epes (-somehow/something) supernatural miracles! Segment 2 HE: ניצחתי ואנצח רואים איך שהאמת מנצח! איך שהעולם כל-כך רחוק מרבינו, מהתבודדות, ליקוטי תפלות - - אז היינו צריכים להתבטל מפני העולם! אם כל הגדולים, כל גדולי הדור הם כל-כך רחוקים מזה, שוחקים מזה - היינו צריכים להתבטל! ככל שעובר זמן היו צריכים להתבטל! אבל בסוף רואים שהפילוסופים, אנשי העולם הכי גדולים, אנשי מדע - - הם היו צריכים לבטל את רבינו לגמרי! כי הוא היה נגד לימוד חכמות ולשונות, אפילו מגדולי ישראל כשהם מדברים מחקירות! - היו צריכים להחליט שאין לו חלק בחכמות, ולא לדבר ממנו כלל! אבל בסוף הם מתבטלים - אחר דיבורים כאלו, אחר התנגדות כזה מה שרבינו הקדוש מתנגד על זה - הם מתבטלים! * (מדבר מאיש מפורסם מאנשי הממשלה, שרבי ישראל בער ז"ל עסק עמו לקרבו ליהדות על דרך רביז"ל הוא סיפר לי פעם, שהוא נכנס פעם בין פרופסורים גדולים, והם ישבו ביחד ודיברו, והם דיברו מרבינו הקדוש, והוא נכנס ושומע איך שהם אומרים; 'הרבי אומר ככה'. שאל אותם; מי הוא 'הרבי'? ענה אחד, פרופסור גדול, פילוסוף גדול, אמר לו; אל תתערב פה בינינו, אתה עם-הארץ, אתה לא יודע כלום! אם אתה לא יודע שסתם 'רבי' זהו הרבי ר' נחמן - אתה עם-הארץ!... וזה הוא אצלם! ואפילו בתוכינו, בין החרדים, הישיבות - מי מדבר מהליטאים - יש אנשים גדולים, גדולי הדור, שחיברו ספרי מוסר. נו, היום הם תמהים; מה זה?! מה פתאום רעש כזה?!... מה זה?! ליקוטי תפלות?! התבודדות?! אבל רבינו הקדוש אמר; 'גמרתי ואגמור'! - אז כולם מתבטלים! מתבטלים! הם רואים כזה אצבע אלקים! - איך לוקחים כסף בשביל להדפיס?! איך לוקחים בשביל למכור את הספרים?!... * - ואני זכיתי לראות בעיניים את הכוח של אמת! איך שרבי ישראל היה מנצח את כל העולם! היה לו מוח קדוש כזה, שבלב ובמוח היה אצלו כל זה לשחוק גמור, כל העולם לא היה אצלו לשום ערך וחשיבות! הוא לא הכריז את זה - הוא לא אמר; שאני כך כך! אבל אצלו בלב הוא ידע היטב מה שנעשה בעולם! והוא ראה - הוא הרגיש שזה ינצח את העולם! אף-על-פי שעכשיו נמצאים בגלות, ונהיים ללעג ולקלס, אבל זה מין כח כזה שזה ינצח את כל העולם! מרבי ישראל קיבלתי את זה - לא שהוא אמר לי, אלא מה שהשם יתברך עזר לי שהבנתי, בהכרה, מאה אחוז, בלי שום ספקות! כל מה שיותר מאמינים ברבינו הקדוש, ושומעים לו, ולא מסתכלים על העולם - - * * * EN: When he bought the place, and began to build, he erected the pillars, there was a commotion, this was 5594 (1834). It started in '92 (-1832), '93, '94, and in '95 (-1835) there began such a type of opposition, '95 there was already the synagogue, the synagogue already stood. In the few years which the synagogue was built, there was by the misnagdim (-antagonists) such… there were such miracles. Because the misnagdim (they) wanted to stone Rabbi Nussun! What – he wants epes (somehow/something) to make such a type of thing?! Rosh Hashana by a tzion (-holy tomb)?! To come to a tzion (-holy tomb)?! The opposition on Breslov! - - - Segment 3 EN: - - - Oy oy oy. I see The Days of Rabbi Nussun, so apparently there already is here (a) The Days of Rabbi Nussun, there already is here a Likutay Tefilos, however, if one doesn't look at it – it is absolutely nothing, one thinks it is just some stories, why is it so necessary for me?! A story?! When one comes to read The Days of Rabbi Nussun, and one can read through it as if it were a story; there was a synagogue, it was crowded, this is a story! - No!! This is something that happened by Rebbe'ns matters, this is something else entirely, this is something such, such (“azellechez” - often Saba ended a sentence with this word which I have rendered plainly: “such” - as in so very much, and such a thing). Segment 4 EN: HY had mercy on us and He gave the holy Rebbe'n such a disciple, Rabbi Nussun, all the disciples, however, such a Rabbi Nussun, this is greater than all of them, greater than all of them! Such. Segment 5 EN: Bichu Rabbainu Nugeela Segment 6 EN: The holy Rebbe speaks so much about joy, we still have not found the likes of such. In the Sichos (-The Words of Rabbi Nachman), in Sefer Hamidos (-Character – the Aleph Bet Book of the Traits), in Likutay Moharan – he speaks so much about joy! It really becomes apparent – that it refers and goes on him! All the joy and thanksgiving, and gratitude – that HY had mercy on us and gave us such a Rebbe'n! (*See Likutay Halachos, Laws of Shabbos 5:15). Segment 7 EN: And we need to search, we need to search, it is here, we just need to search, it is here! Segment 8 EN: “Of joy, what does it accomplish (Ecclesiastes 2:2)?!” Good, I believe in G-d, I believe in Torah, enough (-it is already sufficient)! The entire world also believes, they believe in Hashem! - - No!! The holy Rebbe speaks so much about joy, apparently one needs to be very joyous with the holy Rebbe! Bichu Rabbainu nugeela !… Segment 9 EN: However we must be sincere, we must look with a different eye, with a truthful eye, we must search as much as necessary, we need to search, and we need not to despair! And similarly (with) everything, What kind of words from the holy Rebbe'n, in the Toaroas (-holy teachings), in the Sichos (-Words of Rabbi Nachman), in the stories (-Legendary Tales), everything is – wasn't made for anyone, just for us! For us, in every generation and generation, for every Jew, in every generation and generation! (*See Words of Rabbi Nachman, article 209, how the teachings of Rabbainu are for the future generations). Segment 10 EN: When he says, “There is no despair in the world whatsoever.” Segment 11 EN: (*Likutay Moharan, volume 2, Torah 78, “And he said in these words, 'Any despair is absolutely not in existence (-that is the closest to the Yiddish original I was able to afford, but the classic Hebrew version, which Saba used here at the beginning of the paragraph is as I rendered it there)', and he very much elongated these words 'any despair etc.' and said them with very great power and wondrous awesome depth, in order to teach and hint to each and every single one in the generations to come, that they should not despair in any way in the world, even if he undergoes whatever it is, and however he is, even if he fell to the place that he fell, may the Merciful One save us, since he strengthens himself with what he is (/slightly), he still has hope to repent and return to Him Blessed He.”). Segment 12 EN: A few words, one time, two times, three times, enough! (-why is it necessary to repeat so much), “There is no despair in the world whatsoever!” But the “There is no despair in the world whatsoever” went out from Rebbe'n with such a type of “gevald” (-exclamation or outcry of emphasis), with such a type of “gevald”, to the expiration of the soul (-kiloas hanefesh) - “giva-a-ld!” He very much elongated with the word “gevald,” such. Afterwards his life almost left him – then he said, “[you] Do not despair,” “Any despair absolutely does not exist !” Segment 13 EN: (– See Life of Our Leader Rabbi Nachman, article 49, “At the time he said the Torah 'Vu-eschanan ' which is printed in the second volume of Likutay Moharan, Torah 78, and there it speaks of the matter that it is forbidden to ever despair of oneself, however one may be, G-d forbid, he said then in these words, 'One must not despair of himself. “Givald” [you] do not despair', and he drew out the word 'givald' very much, in the way of someone who warns and screams from the depth of the heart.”) Segment 14 EN: Nu, we already heard, not once, and I already knew of it! - No, no! This needs to be always new! Segment 15 EN: And one must know that this all refers and goes on him, without him (-Rabbainu) – there is (yes) despair, with him – there is not any despair! He screamed, “Gevald,” we must know – when there is here such a Rebbe then already, “There is no despair in the world whatsoever!” Segment 16 EN: The entire world knows “There is no despair in the world,” they take a few words and it is enough (/already:), exempt, already (/sufficiently) heard! What is there further?! - No! This is alluded to in the “gevald,” in the “there is no despair,” this refers to Rebbe'n, when one has him – then “there is no despair,” and when one does not have him – there is (yeah) despair! Segment 17 EN: (*See Ullim Litrufa, Letter of Rabbi Nussun from Tuesday, Torah Portion of Tazreya 5600, “And in their inner hearts everyone is screaming with very great bitterness of soul on the their great alienation from the eternal tachlis, but they are like birds caught in a trap etc., and the great deluge of water of all the bodily desires and the vices, especially the ordeal of money and parnasa (-livelihood) etc. grow stronger all the time, and more than everything, the greatest calamity over all is what most of them are extremely forlorn in absolute despair, so that it is impossible for one to think of the tachlis properly, and it is impossible to uplift him for many reasons etc.. And now remember well the kindness of Hashem and His wonders which He did with us, because you still do not know the extent to which one needs to be strengthened, and like Admu”r (-Our Master, leader, and Rabbainu) o.b.m. screamed with a voice of depth and power, 'Givald (you) do not despair. Any despair is absolutely not in existence'. And the main thing is to strengthen in joy by all the ways that you heard. And Hashem will assist you, we will rejoice and be happy in His salvation.”) Segment 18 EN: The world looks the way it does nebach (-pitifully, unfortunately), they don't have anyone to help them, they don't have anyone to schlep them out of the mud! And we see also - - when we give ourselves over to Rebbe'n, and the faith that we have in Rebbe'n – we are saved instantly! Immediately! This is the main thing, with this it is possible to be Jews, with this it is “ashrainoo !!!” Segment 19 EN: And similarly every word of the holy Rebbe, and regarding joy, we see this in the writings, in Likutay Tefilos, in Likutay Moharan, that the main thing is – that we know of the holy Rebbe'n! One must see to it to know from him, one must seek him! The holy Rebbe himself, in Torah 8 (*Likutay Moharan, volume 2, 8:8), and also in other Torahs, says so himself, how one must seek the tzaddik, the tzaddik of the generation, the true tzaddik, how one must search for him. Nu, we see this again, and we see this again, and it is enough (/already) - - Segment 20 EN: I Had Much Pleasure From Your Devotions