Tape 17, Side A

...and he showed the president {….}, what was his name? [Herzog? Who? Herzog?] The previous president, before Shazar […] [Levi Eshkol] Eh? [Levi Eshkol?] [Levi Eshkol?] Eh.. [Or Ben Zvi?] [……..] What was his name? [Yitzchak Navon] Ben Zvi, Ben Zvi [Ben Zvi, Ben Zvi] President Ben Zvi, he read the letters and told him to close it and keep them This will be a great benefit for the generations to come [Yes?] So I have two, two presidents who said that this would be good And his wife said, shouted and cried: “I do not want friends like these, they will say about you that you are crazy, you will not be president” It is such a game, whoever is here The letters, he, is not, he can.. [To get out of the lusts] [To cleanse him] [Where are the letters?] (Saba laughs) [Saba..] What is this? (not understood) [Yes, this is Chaya daughter of Nechemia] [Pidyon] Eh? [Pidyon] [Daughter of Nechemia and Edna] [This is a pidyon so that she will be a little healthy.. Chaya daughter of Nechemia and Edna] [Chaya] “May all the judgments be sweetened... from upon Aniyah..” [Chaya, Chaya] [Chaya daughter of Nechemia] Chaya Aniyah [Daughter of Nechemia] Eh? Batya.. [Nechemia and Edna] Nechemia, daughter of Nechemia [And Edna] [And Edna] And Edna? [Yes] [And Edna] [Edna, Edna] Nu.. [And Edna] Through a supernal wonder.. (Saba continues the pidyon).. Amen [Amen] {..} [And this belongs to Ben David, Ben David, I forgot his name..] [……] Ben, Ben David [Ben David, who?] [Binyamin, Binyamin Ben David] Eh? [Binyamin Ben David] Binyamin Ben David [Yes] (Saba makes the pidyon).. and all of Yisroel [And this is from us] [And this, and this is us] They should have brought Shazar’s wife, in order to see this

How they do it, do it, they give and give and give me pidyonos Whose is this? [It is us, I am the Gavrieli] “May it be Your will.. [Avigail] That not.. [Son of Chaim, son of Chaim] May all the judgments and harsh severities be sweetened from upon Avigail.. “Avigail”? [The woman, Avigail, yes] A woman’s name [Yes, I, I am the Gavriel] [His wife, his wife] Ah, you are Chaim Gavriel? (Saba says the pidyon).. Amen [Amen] [………………………………………………...] [Saba, David wants to bring more, with Hashem’s help] President Shazar had two wives He had one from America who was in his house, and also his wife And there was a dispute between them, she was religious.. […] And she said that he was a great man, (not understood) and there was a dispute between them, yes And she said: “Only a get, with a friend like this? A get!” [……………………………………………...] Oy vey iz mir, we do not, do not customarily accept pidyonos, and engage in things like these But what can we do [This, the Holy One, blessed is He, sent us] So we will bless the, the Jewish people, {all the Jewish people}, answer them all, {all of us} If we bless Yisroel, is that a small thing? Bless us! […., he, with Hashem’s help, that he should succeed, with Hashem’s help, the doctors will find..] [That he should draw close to Rabbainu] […………………….] […………………….] Do you have “Av”i HaNachal”? [I have it, yes, baruch Hashem] Yes? [Yes] [Today we received it, today we received it] He began to pray.. [Yes] Every day with a tallis and tefillin, and his wife said to him: “Are you crazy? What is with you? You will be president? You pray every day, you are president?” [Saba, I brought you the kippah, my kippah; see if it is all right]

[…………...] (Saba blesses someone).. all the blessings and all the salvations [Amen] For us and all Yisroel Now is the time of the redemption, the time and the end have arrived, very near, we do not know the day, but it is near So says Rebbe Nachman And it is also written in the Petek [My little fire] “And about you I said, my little fire will smolder until Mashiach comes” This, “about you I said,” and you will be in depression? You need to be, always to be joyful Do you have the Petek? The Petek, do they have a Petek? [Yes, yes] [Do you want one? Saba] “Na Nach” [Do you want one? Take] Yes, yes, yes [Good, you brought me this] […..] [Saba, he has an original] [……………………….] [……………………….] President Ben-Tzvi and the president.. [Shazar] Shazar Both of them, both of them decided to seal all the letters and print them And so Shazar did, Shazar, he printed them, yes, look [In “Ebay HaNachal”?] Yes, “Ebay HaNachal,” yes He says: “What is “Ebay HaNachal”? ‘Ebay’ is the letters Yisroel Ber Odesser” [Ah..] Yes, so it is written in.. [In the book] {..} [In ‘Song of Songs’] […………………………...] I came, the secretary entered and said: “Yisroel Ber has come” “Let him enter, what is this?” And all.. many ministers were sitting, and he spoke with me (not understood) [He stopped them] He left, “Let them sit, he needs to speak with Yisroel Ber” […..] He came to ‘Chamei Teveria,’ he requested a private room He needs to speak with me, a private room And one sees in the letters, yes, that both of them, Ben-Tzvi and Shazar, decided to seal it {….} To seal it, and print it for the world [……...] [Saba, he wants you to eat grapes, grapes from the desert, now he returned to Eretz Yisroel] [……………..]

Avi? [Yes] […………] {Yes} […………] [Saba] Ah, afterward [Saba, can you give me a blessing? Saba, that I should be healthy…..] (not understood) [……. only that I should be healthy] May Hashem Yisborach have mercy on us.. […..] That the King Mashiach should be revealed [Amen, and amen] And then it will be, it will be, the whole world will be.. [In the merit of “Na Nach Nachma Nachman MeUman”] [………….] And Shazar said: “That this letter will bring redemption to the world” Who is this? Who is this? [Michael] [This is Michael, with Hashem’s help, that the doctors should find favor through his entire treatment, then he..] This needs to be in the newspaper: ““Ebay HaNachal” has come out into the world” [………..] [Saba, bless Michael] [That he should be healthy, Saba] [………..] Have you seen “Ebay HaNachal”? Ah? Do you know how to read? “Ebay HaNachal” is something.. before the coming of Mashiach, “Ebay HaNachal” was revealed, yes [Yes] I write to Shazar, to the president: “My dear brother, my dear brother, my dear friend, why are you sleeping? What is it? What will become of you?” Yes, yes {to see the letters} [Saba does not need medicines, this is a remedy for all the people of Yisroel] [….., with Hashem’s help, that the doctors should get things in order as quickly as possible] [Yes] [Presence of mind for the doctors, that they should not find for him] His wife told me: “He is sleeping, Shazar, {...}, he is sleeping now” Then his sister said: “He said that even if he is sleeping, to wake him” Ben-Tzvi was already at the end, at the end of his days, yes He saw all the letters, a letter came, he immediately went to his friend, to Ben-Tzvi And showed him the letter, he told him: “Be very careful, seal it, because this needs to be printed” [Saba?] Yo [Aharon Patz, he wants to go to the Minister of Education so that they will disseminate “Sippurei Maasiyos”

In all education, among all the children, in all the schools] [Shulamit Aloni] Yes, the "Sippurei Maasiyos" need to, I already spoke with the president [Herzog] What is his name? [Herzog, Herzog] [Herzog, Chaim Herzog] Herzog, Herzog [Yes] [Yes] Yes, that he should print them for all the children of school, schools [Yes] Then the children will be unique children in the world, yes It will be this way, they will print the "Sippurei Maasiyos" and all the children, and the whole world will engage in them and everyone will wonder, how.. everyone will wonder very much, will marvel: "How is it possible, a human being can speak such words? This is from the World to Come" [Yes] [Saba, I have here, this is mine, this, one needs to put it on the..] Eh? [An amulet, Saba, this is an amulet of "Na Nach"] Do you have it? [So yes] Eh? [Now he no longer has it] [It is with you, it is with you in your hand] Good, good, this is "Na Nach" [Yes] "Nachman MeUman" They see, many people see awesome wonders Sick people who have no hope at all, and they had a healing through this petek, they said "Na Nach" [Saba, does one need to sing it? To sing "Na Nach"?] Ah.. I have no words to speak [Say "Na Nach"] Yes, I do this, I say it all night [Yes] {As for me}, I do not, do not want to die What will be with the petek? What will be with "And about you I said"? [Saba, Rabbainu said: "You will not die, you are "my precious student" You will not die, you are "my precious student""] He said to me: "To tell you that I derived great pleasure from your service, and about you I said, my little fire.. until Mashiach will come" that is how it is written in the letter, that is how Rabbainu Hakadosh signed: "Na Nach Nachma Nachman MeUman"

That is how his signature is on this petek [On this petek?] Yes [.…] You, until, but it was a secret, a great secret, "Na Nach" But Rabbainu Hakadosh revealed it Now there is "Na Nach Nachma Nachman MeUman" He said a Torah, he said: "Rebbe Shimon is "a w'atcher and h'oly one f'rom h'eaven d'escended, descended" it is an acronym of Shimo"n" And then, and.. and.. he concluded: "And now there is "a f'lowing b'rook, s'ource of w'isdom" [Nachman] That Rebbe Shimon, that Rebbe Shimon receives from me" [Rebbe Shimon receives from him] [What else is there?] […. from Rabbainu] [Yes] We have not seen, we have not heard any tzaddik say such words [Only Rabbainu] Now there is "a f'lowing b'rook, s'ource of w'isdom" That he will draw the whole world close to Hashem Yisborach, to the Torah, to emunah, to truth, emunah He will come, yes, I am already here […] Na.. we need to daven, not yet? Has the time not yet arrived? [We already davened, we] Eh? [Mincha] [We davened Mincha Gedolah, we] How much, what, what time is it? [A quarter past five] A quarter past five, we need to daven [Yes] A friend like Yisroel Ber with President Shazar, I have, he made a photograph He and I, the two of us, and this is on, on one picture Shazar, President Shazar and Yisroel Ber Odesser [Only "Na Nach Nachma Nachman MeUman"] He told Ben-Gurion to wait a little, "Yisroel Ber is coming" Everyone knew that he, that I am his friend And his wife said to him: "That he.. they, they will get divorced, they will give you freedom, that you should go Are you a president? Do you have friends like Yisroel Ber? Are you a president?" [What friends] If they had gotten divorced it would have been better The whole world would have known that the president divorced his wife for, for Rebbe Nachman

There are many who divorced their wives, yes, there will be one more [There are many] Everyone knows that there were many gittin, very many, yes And there were shouts and cries from the children: "Abba, Abba, Abba, Abba, what? Why do you, we do not see you? Abba, Abba, Abba" he told them: "That I am already divorced," yes [………….] [………….] He told Ben-Gurion, to Moshe, Moshe Sharett: "That they should wait, Yisroel Ber is coming," he needs to speak with him, "that they should wait" [……...….] [………….] His wife cried, and he laughed [Saba] [Saba] There are, there are more letters that were not printed [Yes] Yes, there are more letters [Avi.. Saba] {..}, he printed only, only.. [The strongest ones] The letters that make a great impression, yes But now there are more letters to bring to print, more, more beautiful than these [beautiful] Yes, nu, we need to daven with, with the tallis [Saba and the friends sing: "Na Nach Nachma Nachman MeUman.."] (not understood), {give me the tallis} [Mincha, Mincha, Mincha, nu] The tallis [Now it is Mincha, we davened Shacharis] Eh? [We davened Shacharis, now it is Mincha] Yes? [Yes] Nu, let them dance [Yes] [Saba and the friends continue to sing: "Na Nach Nachma Nachman MeUman.."] (not understood), they will ask in the streets: "Mashiach is coming, what is this?" […………….] […………….] They are not asking? "Mashiach has already come," (not understood) [Saba, Saba, they were Chabad] Yes There were many times when we danced, then they asked: "What, has Mashiach already come?" [………..] [Go to the police] Eh.. [Eh] [Eh] [………...] [Saba, am I allowed to write "Na Nach"?] He, he told Ben-Gurion, Moshe Sharett:

"Wait, Yisroel Ber is coming, I am, I am busy now, I have to speak with him" so they waited, what, what can be done? [………….] [………….] Oy [Saba, Saba, bless me, I want a blessing, the blessing, Saba, a blessing] A blessing, may Hashem bless you with all the blessings and with all the salvations [Amen] [Saba, may we merit to be in Uman, may we merit to be in Uman, Saba] [May we merit Uman on Rosh Hashanah] [Rosh Hashanah in Uman, Saba, may we merit to be in Uman] He said, Shazar said: "This {{the pe..}}.., this letter will bring the redemption" He was not crazy, he spoke, {no.., eh, a sea of wisdom}, with all his heart "This letter, this will bring the redemption," {…., yes} [Saba] If he were alive, he would dance [Saba, our parents are crying] Eh? [My parents and his are crying, crying, they say that we have gone crazy, we drew close to Breslov] Yes, yes, yes, that is how it was about, about Breslov they said that he was crazy [Who?] "All of Breslov is crazy, all.." That is how it was, that is how the fashion was, like that, yes [Yes][Saba, I, I want to write "Na Nach"] "Na Nach"[I want to write][He is a sofer STaM]Are you a sofer?[Yes][Saba, I, I want to write "Na Nach"] "Na Nach"[I want to write][He is a sofer STaM]Are you a sofer?And I laughed at everyone [Yes] [Saba, I, I want to write "Na Nach"] "Na Nach" [I want to write] [He is a sofer STaM] Are you a sofer? [Yes] [Saba, I, I want to write "Na Nach"] "Na Nach" [I want to write] [He is a sofer STaM] Are you a sofer? [Yes] Thenwrite [So can I write?] Yes [Then bless me that I should write, bless me that I should write] Eh, I bless you that you should write and always remember "Na Nach" ["Na Nach Nachma Nachman MeUman"]

That you should not divert his attention for a moment [He extends his hand, so, "he should not divert his attention for a moment"] We have, and all Israel, we have such a remedy for everyone [Rabbainu] For everyone, yes, that is what he said, he is a remedy for all, for all Israel, and everyone will receive rectifications from him Breslov, Breslov will be.. [Saba, where we are they sing "Na Na Ch" in the street, they sing "Na Na Ch"] Ah [Where we are they shout "Na Nach Nachma Nachman MeUman"] [They shout] One must go in the street with, with, with an instrument.. [With notes] With an instrument, a musical instrument, with instruments of.. [To go in the street with musical instruments] Yes, and sing to everyone so that they will know "Na Na Ch Nachma Nachman MeUman" What? Why are you sleeping? [Saba, but they will say that we are mad] [They laugh at us] One must give them (I do not understand) to the eyes, they will all shout: "We want to sleep, what is this?" [No sleeping] No sleeping Shoyn, shoyn, shoyn [………] [………] Oy, oy, oy, oy, oy [Saba] Put the legs, the legs on the bed Oy vey… ...Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah.. "Blessed be Hashem, I smell the scent of Breslov, one must throw stones" I was, I, I received stones, yes, I am not merely saying it I, I received all the humiliations and all the troubles [In Teveria] Besides this, that I did not have, that I did not have bread, I had more.. yes Oy, oy, oy, ah, oy, oy.. There is already "Likutay Moharan" in the world Mashiach, Mashiach will tell us what "Likutay Moharan" is Our holy Rabbainu said: "Mashiach will give an explanation of Likutay Moharan" No tzaddik said that Mashiach would give an explanation of, of, of his book

Only our holy Rabbainu, he said: "Mashiach will give an explanation of Likutay Moharan" The explanation is, every word, he explained to us Everything that we have, all the troubles that we have To help, to save and to rescue, to heal, and to revive, yes, yes And he has already prepared everything If one needs to revive a dead person?, yes, one can resurrect the dead! yes "Who restores souls to dead bodies" Nu, ah.. ah.. ah.. ah.. ah.. ah.. ah.. ah.. [A crow] [Saba and the friends sing and chant: "Fortunate are we, how good is our portion and how pleasant is our lot.."] The whole world used to oppose, they did not want: ""Likutay Moharan"? No!" Nu, nu [Saba, do you want to drink something?] Ah? [Do you want to drink something?] I already drank [Good] I do not know, every night that passes I do not know how I, how I get up, how I have a spirit of life, I do not know how I live in the world, what place, and do I know where it is? [……….] [Saba and the friends sing: "Fortunate are we, how good is our portion and how pleasant is our lot.."] One word from the book "Likutay Tefillos", from the book of Psalms, whatever it is Whoever heard only one word from the book of Psalms, from the book "Likutay Tefillos" Became a new person, yes, not, not the person from before {He only heard} the melody of "Eishes Chayil" He became new Rebbe Yisroel (Kardonner) would pray privately at home, and he.. And such an awakening was made in several souls of Israel They heard such an awakening, such words, holiness, such light, then they were entirely renewed, nu, renewed? More madmen were made There are already new madmen…