Introduction
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Source: https://ajew.org/reader/hisbodidus-alone-time/1/3

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Rabbi Nachman said (Life of Our Leader Rabbi Nachman, article 107) that in his youth, every time he would return from doing hisbodidus the world looked completely new. This is also an aspect of mastery, because the heightened understanding gained over the world, is new acquisition and secures dominion over it in an even more elevated state (of the world).[16]

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There were many great tzadikim who helped elevate their brethren, these tzadikim would imbue those they came in contact with or prayed for, with such holiness that they would uproot them from whatever evils they were caught up in, and immediately bring them to a holy paradigm of existence. Rabbi Nachman reserved such treatment for rectifying the souls of the dead, but for those still living he almost never circumvented their personal bechira (-point of free choice, pronounced: bicheeruh). The person himself would have to overcome and gain in his own personal growth, but Rabbi Nachman would help him in this very point of conflict.[17] Rabbi Nachman said that his entire affair is Rosh Hashana[18] (-New Years), and this is an aspect of knowing the place where everyone stands (because only one who knows where the other stands can judge him, as explained in Likutay Moharan), and thus Rabbainu knows how to help a person in that person’s place. This I believe is part of the secret of what Saba Yisroel Dov Odesser repeated over and over again in the name of Rabbainu: “I am Na Nach Nachma Nachman MayUman,” meaning that the “I,” a person’s true self and identity is rooted in Rabbainu, particularly in the new revelation of Rabbainu’s name Na Nach Nachma Nachman MayUman. This is why there can not be any explicit explanation and revelation of this secret, just as Rabbi Nachman wrote afterwards, “with the strengthening of devotion you will understand it.” This is similar to Rabbi Nachman’s reply when Rabbi Nussun asked him a very deep paradox as to the root of a person’s will (see The Life of Our Leader Rabbi Nachman, article 482), because the only way to understand it, is to be it.

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Even to this end, Rabbi Nachman made it very clear that the approach to hisbodidus should be one of intimate, personal, and passionate bonding with Hashem Yisburach.

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This book has primarily two parts. The first part is a translation of the entry on hisbodidus from the holy book Likutay Aitzoas – A Collection of Remedies/Advice. Likutay Aitzoas presents the reader with succinct summations of the teachings of Rabbi Nachman in such a way that they can be readily and practically implemented. Rabbi Nachman himself commissioned Rabbi Nussun to compose it. Since the topic of hisbodidus earned an entire book dedicated to it – Outpouring of the Soul (Hishtapchus Hanefesh) where almost everything in this book is brought down, and often at greater length with greater clarification and elaboration, citations are provided for it along with the original sources.

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The second part of the book are prayers pertaining hisbodidus taken from Likutay Tifeeloas (Collection of Prayers) authored by Rabbi Nussun based on the teachings of Likutay Moharan (Also composed at Rabbi Nachman’s bidding).

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Also included in this volume is the book Rabbi Nachman of Breslov: Who He Was and What He Said, which includes the Tikun Haklali.

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Na NaCh NaChMa NaChMaN MayUMaN