{
  "bookId": "fires-of-israel",
  "part": "1",
  "torah": "37",
  "title": "Fires of Israel - Part 37",
  "hebrewTitle": "אשי ישראל",
  "sourceUrl": "/reader/fires-of-israel/1/37",
  "plainUrl": "/reader-plain/fires-of-israel/1/37/",
  "segments": [
    {
      "index": 1,
      "he": "להתעורר מהשינה",
      "en": "This Rabbi Chaim Sonnenfeld would pray vasikin (-at sunrise) in the (synagogue of the neighborhood of) Butay Machseh, and R' Shlomo also prayed vasikin, they saw each other every day, and Rabbi Chaim held of R' Shlomo'n - - he (Rabbi Chaim) was the head of the Aguda, there was Rabbi Moshe Blau with others - - R' Shlomo was by him a “chad bidura ”! R' Shlomo was by him – holy of holies! He didn't have another (“a second”) like R' Shlomo!"
    },
    {
      "index": 2,
      "he": "להתעורר מהשינה\nאוי ויי, אוי ויי, יש רחמנות עליך ועלי!... הבת מלך בכתה וזעקה; \"יש רחמנות גדול עליך ועלי\"...! בלי הפתקא - כשיש כבר לקוטי תפלות כזה, וליקוטי מוהר\"ן כזה - ואנחנו ישנים?! היינו צריכים להיות צדיקים קדושים כאלה - שכל העולם כולו ירוצו אחרינו! שיהיה לנו חן כזה - חן של אמת! שיש לזה כח המושך - שכל העולם ירוצו אחרינו; \"אוי ברסלב, ברסלב, ברסלב\"!... \nנו, ולדאבונינו אנחנו ישנים! התפלה איננו כמו שצריך להיות - - אני שמעתי 'תפלה'! יכולים לחשוב שמתפללים טוב, אבל אני שמעתי תפלה - כשאני נזכר מזה התפלה אני רואה שאני עומד לגמרי בחוץ! \nומאיפוא לקח את זה? הכל מהדיבורים של רבינו! איך נעשה 'רבי ישראל' (- קרדונר?! - אין שייך להגיד כי; \"פעם היה רבי ישראל\"! רבינו הקדוש נמצא כאן! מי שרוצה להתקרב - ושיזכה לצאת מהבלי העולם הזה, מכל החסרונות של העולם הזה, מכל העוונות, מכל התאוות! \nוכן גם עם התורות, ועם התפלות, ועם המעשיות - - יושבים ומדברים ומחפשים ורוצים - וישנים! איך זה?! איך זה יכול להיות?! - - \nוכן אני רואה בענין הפתקא - אחר שאני רואה דברים כאלה, הייתי צריך להיות אחרת לגמרי מהעולם - לא אדם כזה! נו, ככה הוא כח הבחירה, אני נופל פעם לעצבות ובמרה שחורה וכדומה, אי אפשר להתפלל, נופלים לתאוות אכילה, בשינה - - איך לוקחים זמן בשביל לאכול ולישון?! \n*",
      "en": "R' Shlomo did not have derech eretz (-formal respect) before him… there was a conflict on Rav Kook, and it was necessary that he should go out strong (against him), if he did not come out as strong as it was necessary – so R' Shlomo had no derech eretz (-formal respect) for Rabbi Chaim'en…."
    },
    {
      "index": 3,
      "he": "",
      "en": "R' Yisroel was a different world, R' Yisroel was - - his meseeras nefesh (-self sacrifice), and his common sense (/straight intellect), his hisbodidus. So R' Shlomo would krechtz (-groan) – R' Shlomo would say to me, “Where does one get (/take) R' Yisroel's avoada (devotion)?!”"
    },
    {
      "index": 4,
      "he": "",
      "en": "[Returning to the matter of the letter – the Petek – from Rabbainu o.b.m.]"
    },
    {
      "index": 5,
      "he": "",
      "en": "Everything – when one looks with an honest eye, from the beginning of the note (-the Petek), from the first word, and further on in order – there is what to be learned as a study."
    },
    {
      "index": 6,
      "he": "",
      "en": "In truth, I already spoke a lot of this, and why again and again - - a hairbreadth more is already completely something else!"
    },
    {
      "index": 7,
      "he": "",
      "en": "In the note (-the Petek) – there is only one aleph which screams out about the “Rav and disciple” (*Likutay Moharan, Torah 6:5 – correlate to the upper and lower appendages of the aleph), “ailechu ” - such an aleph, the vav (-the Hebrew letter vav is basically a vertical line – and the diagonal line of the aleph is called a vav) with the two dots (-the aleph is a diagonal line with one dot above it and one dot below it) screams epes (-some, somehow) out a call, a proclamation…."
    },
    {
      "index": 8,
      "he": "",
      "en": "By Rebbe'n is it possible to say?! - What type of relevance does a person like me have by Rebbe'n?! We see how the holy Rebbe can write to Yisroel Ber'n, “my precious student” - embedded in this is such a type of encouragement! “My precious student” - these two words, it could have been without these two words!"
    },
    {
      "index": 9,
      "he": "",
      "en": "“To come down to you to tell you that I had great pleasure from your devotions!” “I had great pleasure,” the “great (-a lot, very much)” - there are no extra words written like in a letter one writes what he wants, this is not so! Every word is a “nachal noavaya !” There are implanted in this amazing things! Just when one goes with truth, not to be smart in his own eyes, because when one is wise in his own eyes, one can make of this a laytzunoos (-mockery) - -"
    },
    {
      "index": 10,
      "he": "",
      "en": "If one looks well, one sees – for example, “And upon you I said my fire will burn until Messiah is coming – be strong and courageous in your avoada ,” the writing of “in your avoada” still appertains to the previous line, and “be strong and courageous” is a different world, it is a matter of itself (-Saba is pointing out how the Petek should have written “be strong and courageous in your devotion” altogether in its own line after finishing the matter of “until Messiah is coming.” Whereas the Petek allocated a whole line just for the one (Hebrew) word “in your avoada” and kept the words “be strong and courageous” as a run on after “until Messiah is coming.”)."
    },
    {
      "index": 11,
      "he": "",
      "en": "There are people whom when they see such a thing, they can think of me that this is somehow (/something) from me (“my side” - due to my own merit) – it is forbidden to be like that! This is forbidden to be! This note (-The Petek) is not from (-in the merit of) my frumkeit (-devoutness), from my righteousness, from my wisdom! This is such a thing that the holy Rebbe - “It was very difficult for me to come down to you” - this is a lesson for each and every one! Because if the holy Rebbe wrote this just for me alone, he would write that I should not reveal it to a stranger, and that is not written – so it is apparent that the desire of Rebbe'n is that they should know, whoever desires – “he who desires to hear will hear, and he who desires to abstain will abstain (Ezekiel 3:27).”"
    },
    {
      "index": 12,
      "he": "",
      "en": "Here is set an amazing light of revelation of the Divine which is unfathomable! Which is from Rebbe'ns novelties! This is really such a novelty that there has yet to be heard of such a thing from anyone!"
    },
    {
      "index": 13,
      "he": "",
      "en": "I was by R' Yisroel'n – R' Yisroel knew everything that transpired to our men whom were drawn close to Rebbe'n – everything. Such a thing he never heard…"
    },
    {
      "index": 14,
      "he": "",
      "en": "I am just in wonder how I appear after such a revelation – a revelation of the Divine, which others don't know what I know. I know well all the circumstances (-causes which brought it about), this is really completely something else - -"
    },
    {
      "index": 15,
      "he": "",
      "en": "- - When I showed it to R' Shlomo (Wexler o.b.m.), and R' Shlomo was a man of truth, such a thing which is a novelty! And if he had epes (-somehow/something) doubts in this, he would have said to me, “Get yourself out of such things, you should not take in to (-pay heed? Involve?) yourself!” And he received it “bidicheeloo ooricheemoo (-of HY – this is what one says when preparing to do a mitzva)!” With truth! And he read it I know how many times, and he found that the first (Hebrew letter) nuen (-”Na”) is epes (-somehow/somewhat) different, that is what he told me. Now I gave it my attention and I saw that all the (Hebrew letter) nuens (-the first letters – acronym - of Na Nach Nachma Nachman) – each nuen is a different type of nuen! Yeah, theses three nuens (-second, third, and fourth) are not the same (-as the first, and not to one another)."
    },
    {
      "index": 16,
      "he": "",
      "en": "Practically speaking, what is here in this name – single double triple quadruple - this is impossible to comprehend! We have never heard of a (person of) flesh and blood that signed like this, with a single double triple quadruple – only in the letter (-The Petek) it is written that way!"
    },
    {
      "index": 17,
      "he": "",
      "en": "And here are the ten letters – the Rebbe'ns name, single double triple quadruple is exactly ten letters, this alludes to the ten types of melodies"
    },
    {
      "index": 18,
      "he": "",
      "en": "(*See Likutay Moharan, Torah 49:5, “And this is the aspect of the song with will be aroused in the future, and it is a song single double triple quadruple, and they are ten types of melody etc..” And see also volume 2, Torah 24, and what is pertinent to this in the Words of Rabbi Nachman, article 273, “And see the end of the Story of the Seven Beggars, there are slight hints of the importance of the melody, because it is explained there, that the main healing of the Queen's Daughter who fell down faint is through melody, that is, through the ten types of melody as is explained there, see there. And understand well the extent to which these matters reach. Because also the holy neshama (soul) of each one of Israel is called “bas melech ” as is known, and she is located in the place where she is located by each and every one, tired, and exhausted, and faint from her sins, which are the ten types of arrows which the king who caught her threw and shot into her, as is explained there. And we need a tzaddik who possesses great power who can enter into all the places where she fell, and extract from her all the ten types of arrows, and know all the ten types of pulses, in order to know what is necessary to heal her, and to play all the ten types of melodies etc..”),"
    },
    {
      "index": 19,
      "he": "",
      "en": "and of the Tikun Haklali (-General/Comprehensive Rectification which consists of Ten Psalms representing the ten types of melodies)"
    },
    {
      "index": 20,
      "he": "",
      "en": "(*See Likutay Moharan, Torah 205, and volume 2, Torah 92, “Because the ten chapters of Psalms correlate the ten types of melody which with the Book of Psalms was said, which are: Bracha , Ashray , Maskil etc.. Because the ten types of melody mentioned above have the power to nullify the power of the (evil) husks and the defect mentioned above etc..”),"
    }
  ]
}