# Fires of Israel - Part 43
אשי ישראל
Source: https://ajew.org/reader/fires-of-israel/1/43
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ה'קלויז'
Teekoon Haklallee – transliteration 37
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11. Short Prayer 52
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Na Nach Nachma Nachman MeUman
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Rabbi Moshe Feinstein was the leading most venerable sage of the Orthodox Jewish World. Although he was known to help many people with approbations, this approbation is phenomenal in that it explicitly mentions the wondrous Petek, and it specifically attests to Rabbi Yisroel Dov Odesser's mastery in Kabballah. Rabbi Moshe Feinstein strongly avoided any dealing with Kabbalah his whole life, and if he simply wanted to put in a good word to help out, there was no reason for him to break his lifelong practice of shirking away from any mention of the Kabbalah. The reality however is quite the contrary, Rabbi Feinstein upon meeting personally with Rabbi Odesser, was completely blown away and spoke with him at great length, even though he was very sick and old and had stopped speaking to visitors. Rabbi Feinstein asked Rabbi Odesser for a blessing, and extended to him his full service in helping him get in touch with some powerful contacts. There's a great deal more to this fascinating story, but I must suffice with this for now.
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Famous Powerful Quotations and Teachings of Rabbi Nachman
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1. It's not enough to believe in G-d and His Tzadikim, you also must believe in yourself. [Words of Rabbi Nachman 140; Likutay Halachos, Laws of an Object Deposited for Safekeeping and Watchmen 5:7; Laws of the First of the Month 7:35; Outpouring of the Soul 92]
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2. It is forbidden to be old – neither an old saint or an old devotee, being old is not good. One should always start living and do good deeds as if it is his/her first time. Elders of Holiness constantly lengthen their days expanding their consciousness with fear of Heaven. In this way they reveal and draw the Divine Will making it clear that the world is governed completely by Divine Providence, thus nullifying all the philosophers and scientists, their philosophies and wisdoms. Giving charity helps to open these gates of renewal and Divine Desire (The converse also holds true; leaders and rabbis who do not actively renew their devotions to G-d with new excitement, knowledge, intensity, and desire, cause the Holy Faith to be shrouded in the darkness, gloom, and depression of philosophy and science). [Likutay Moharan 60; Likutay Halachos, Laws of Tefilin 5:5; Likutay Aitzoas, Fear and Devotion 25]
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3. When a person knows that everything that happens to him is for the best, this is a taste of the world to come. [Likutay Moharan 4]
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4. The main job of a Jew is to wake up for midnight (which is 6 hours after nightfall). [Words of Rabbi Nachman 301]
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5. Know that the primary essence of exile is only our lack of belief. [Likutay Moharan 7]
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6. Gan Ayden (Garden of Eden - heaven) and Gi'henom (hell) are literally in this world. [Likutay Moharan 22]
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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]