Tape 89, Side A

...All the words of the Torah are counsel and ways for how to be a Jew, as Rabbainu of blessed memory said in Uman He was already {..} such a genius, such a sage, such a tzaddik And in every utterance of his he illuminated for us the entire Torah, {{...}} and how to be a Jew The entire Torah is how to be a Jew Rabbainu of blessed memory practiced hisbodedus, and prayed to Hashem Yisborach and wept before Hashem Yisborach: “A.. how does one merit to be a Jew?”, {..} This is the essence of the service and.. {yes}, ours The non-Jews are, they are our donkeys, they need to plow and.. and do all the work, so that we will have bread to eat Ah, how {sees}, I see in the house, that he, someone who walks around in the house And with him is the light of the Torah, the “Likutey Moharan” and the “Likutey Eitzos,” and all the words of Rabbainu of blessed memory They are all lights and ways and counsel for how to be a Jew And as Rabbainu of blessed memory said {..} in his hisbodedus, he pleaded before Hashem Yisborach: “Master of the world, how does one merit to be a Jew?” Ah.. {What is this?} Now is the time of the redemption, yes, Mashiach will come, and there will be, and there will be such a true sage From whom all the heretics, all the deniers, will receive the holy Torah How do.. how to be, how does one merit to be a Jew Now is the time of the redemption, the time of Mashiach's coming, and he will reveal Rabbainu of blessed memory, the words of Rabbainu And he will teach us ways and counsel for how to be a Jew, how to be a holy man, without desires The desires? One needs to fight them and break them What for? {…………………………}... ...This is all for us, to make known to us, to the entire world, to each and every person in his home {We are here, look}, he hears the words of Rabbainu of blessed memory

What we have, the Written Torah and the Oral Torah And they are all counsels and might and wisdom, how to be a Jew, {…} How does one merit to be a Jew There is already in the world {me} Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai, and now we have “Na'chal No'vea M'kor Cho'chma” And he teaches us, how does one merit to be a Jew I see.. there is one person, he walks around in the house, and every time he, he, he lays himself down on the.. Like this, yes, to rest, and he thinks the main wisdom, how to be a Jew As Rabbainu, of blessed memory, said before Hashem Yisborach in his hisbodedus: “Master of the World, dear Father, merciful Father, what, how does one merit to be a Jew?”, {.. ….} This, this is the essence of life, the essence of the Jewish light, the Torah.., and what is a Jew? - the Torah and the mitzvos And I saw Rebbe Yisroel (Kardonner), that he was so bound, bound to the holy Rabbainu To “Likutei Moharan,” what, he studied “Likutei Moharan,” the teachings of the “Likutei Moharan” For they are all wondrous lights, how does one merit to be a Jew The time for the redemption has arrived, this is the redemption, Torah and mitzvos {..} Work? Bread to eat? The non-Jews are our donkeys They will work, they work, and we eat I saw in the room, one person walking around from here to there, yes And every time he lays himself down and.. he lies down a little, and.. and afterward he gets up again, again: “How does one merit to be a Jew?” He, he was the wisest, he was, he revealed such a wisdom, that had not yet been revealed in the world That is the “Likutei Moharan,” and “Likutei Halachos” and “Likutei Eitzos” We have everything ready and prepared Ah.. oy vey How can one eat and sleep? There are such wisdoms, there is such a wisdom, how does one merit..

And all the wisdom is, “How does one merit to be a Jew?” The Torah teaches us, how does one merit to be a Jew But the non-Jews do not know at all, like donkeys, do donkeys know? A donkey, the donkey stands constantly, always, and eats, and eats straw He has one problem, how does one take straw? Already, when there is already none, “I need straw, give me to eat,” and their work, it is that they bring in for us from the field, the.. all fruits and every, every precious thing for the children, for, for.. us, all the fruits, dates, olives, oil, olive oil Everything so that we should have strength and wisdom and a heart, how does one merit to be a Jew, ah.. The holy Rabbainu revealed, what do we Jews have {…}? What is there? What work do they have? Only the service of Torah and mitzvos {Fruits} and food? The non-Jews, the non-Jews need to work, and prepare for us what to eat They are our servants, our slaves What? What work do we Jews have? What work? Only the service of Torah and mitzvos And the non-Jews will work and prepare everything for us {This is a kind of} animal that has intellect and wisdom, how, how to make a house, and how, and how to be a Jew, yes, the holiness of the Torah and mitzvos, this, this is the essence of our life, “wisdom gives life” What do we have to do? Only the Torah and the mitzvos, this is our work, ah.. I am an old man, I saw how great rabbis who had a mind and a heart, {…} But they did not have the foundation of the Torah, the holy Rabbainu, he was.. {{. .}}, the essence of the Torah and the mitzvos is Rabbainu Rebbe Nachman “Na Naḥ Naḥma Naḥman MeUman” He is all our vitality, the Torah and the mitzvos We give terumos and maasros, f.. from the wheat that the non-Jews prepare for us, we perform mitzvos

We give terumos and maasros {And the entire Torah, all the mitzvos of the Torah}, Pesach and Sukkos, and.. the three pilgrimage festivals, only Torah and mitzvos For this we live, this is the main wisdom, this is the essence of {...} vitality {If not for this, if we did not have Torah and mitzvos}, there is nothing, there are only animals And the animals, there are many animals, the animals with four legs, they also have animals on two legs to prepare everything for us Ah.. ah.. ah.. ah.. The holy Rabbainu said: “I and Nassan laugh at the entire world” Two people {laugh}, laugh at the entire world Ah, ah.. There are already “Likutei Moharan” and “Likutei Halachos” and counsels, how to be a Jew.. Ah, Eretz Yisroel gives us all kinds of good fruits, grapes, olives, milk, everything It gives us all the fruits and all the wisdoms, and all the true wisdoms, “how does one merit to be a Jew” And everything, “how does one merit to be a Jew” The entire world, all the non-Jews want to kill Jews, yes, and they do not succeed The entire world {…} wants to kill, to kill and exterminate Jews But this, Hashem Yisborach does not allow them I saw all night, one person walking around from here to there, {the whole} room Now it has become known to me who he is, who this is, he, all, all his power and all his wisdoms are “How does one merit to be a Jew?”, how does one merit to fulfill the Torah and the mitzvos? All the mitzvos of the Torah, the tithe, the tithe and charity and kindness among Jews But the non-Jews? Like donkeys, they do not care, someone who has trouble, they, they go {from me} “Let him die,” yo, yes, they have no compassion, they have no compassion whatsoever, no wisdom and intellect and compassion, nothing, only all their work, how to murder and kill Jews

And we laugh at them, at all of them… ...“from all the peoples, and gave us His, His, His Torah,” the Torah “Blessed are You Hashem, Giver of the Torah” To whom did He give it? Only to Yisroel, to Yisroel, to the Jews I saw at night {here}, there is one person who walks around from here to there, he walks around {and I do not} know who he is, he {speaks sometimes} only of the Torah and the mitzvos This is our work in this world... ...A land flowing with milk and honey, it has all kinds of fruits, all kinds of wisdoms, and the non-Jews? All their work, how to murder and kill Jews… ...{All the words are already sounds of holiness} “How does one merit to be a Jew?” {like this} All our wisdom, all the power, all our power is only, “How does one merit to be a Jew?”… ...[………………..] [………….……….] I know, I will tell you, my apartment is here, none of you knew, only I […………………..] […………….…….] {Blessed}, ah, the landlord came [Yes] He was afraid, that the whole wall would fall from our shouting […………….……] [………………….] I, I need to lie down [………………….] [………….……...] yes, ah, ah, ah, ah […………………..] [……………….….] {...} […………….…….] [………….……….]… ...[Saba and the friends sing: “In You our fathers trusted, in You they trusted and You delivered them, to You they cried and escaped, in You they trusted and were not ashamed..” (Saba shouts “trusted, trusted, trusted, trusted”)] Give me something to eat [Kugel] Ah, Kugel.. [Or Tzipora's fish] We will see, {..} […………….………] […………………….]… ...Is there? [……...] [There is, there is]… ...{..} [……….] [….……]… ...This young man, I want to be here, I have nowhere, I have nowhere to go

So they take uh.. a bus and.. with a driver and go all the way home […………] [………...]… ...Yisroel, Levi, Yisroel [Yaakov Levi] Where? [Yaakov Levi] Where is Levi? [Yaakov Levi?] Yaakov Levi, yes, where is he? [He is in Tzfas] He, he is in Tzfas, I told him, he shouts during prayer [Yes] I told him that he should shout more, then they will give him a discharge, like that He shouted very loudly, afterward he told him: "You are going home" [……] [……….] He shouted very much during prayer, as I told him, so after the prayer they told him to go home. Yaakov, his name is Yaakov? [Yes, yes] Not Y.., Yaakov… [.…………]... […….………] {…} [……………] [………….]… ...they were afraid that the doctors would say he was well, so they sent him […………….]… ...the head, they asked him: "Why under the head?" He said: "I am afraid they will steal them from me, I will have nothing with which to walk" [……………...…….] […………………….] "Why under the head, not on the head?" So he said: "I am afraid they will steal them from me, I will have nothing with which to walk home" [……………………..]… ...they were afraid, the army told him to go home So he said: "I put the shoes under my head so that they would not steal my shoes from me; I would have nothing with which to walk home"… ...and to observe the Torah and the mitzvos is the main thing. Torah without faith—there is no life; life is worth nothing, nothing, uh… …{..} and to observe the Torah and the mitzvos [...]… ...[.…] That is the main thing... …Torah without faith—there is no life; life is worth nothing, nothing Uh… ...{.. …} on the night of Shavuos, the main rectification is not to sleep And on Hoshana Rabbah, the main rectification is to say Tehillim and.. the rectification of Hoshana Rabbah"

[Uh] Yes, but on Shavuos it does not matter, if one cannot.. Not to sleep, so that he should not say—only not to sleep. The main thing, the main thing is not to sleep, to stay awake, to stay awake [Yes] On the night of Shavuos… ...{.. … …} [It is possible to do..]… ...(..)... ...I told everyone that he, I cursed [yes, Saba] That they should tell him… ...Uh? [He took two witnesses, two witnesses, yes, before two witnesses, before Yitzchak Naim and Yisroel Dagan] Yes? [Yes, he took them as witnesses, and he said that he regrets everything he did] Yes [Yes, and apparently he did not know that what he did was so important, so severe Apparently he did it like that in jest; he did not know that it was like that, so important So he regrets it, but the second one does not] {...}… ...[No, not yet] Uh? [Not yet, not yet]… ...certainly, Rabbainu is at the head Rabbainu is the head of all the tzaddikim, of all, of everything… ...[In the Gemara it is written, there are souls of all the tzaddikim] Yes, yes, certainly, yes… ...Oy, oy, oy We do not know at all the greatness and essence of the Jews, just the name ‘Jew’ The holy Rabbainu was in Uman when he already, already was at such a level; he, he had hisbodedus He wept before Hashem Yisborach: "How does one merit to be a Jew?" However much he did was nothing in his eyes; however much he served Hashem—there was none like him in all the generations This is a matter, very hidden matters But one must, one must bring oneself, in one’s heart and mind, into the books "Likutei Moharan", "Likutei Tefillos", and "Sippurei Maasiyos" And to read and to serve, and to serve Hashem. What do we have? What service?

{…} The non-Jews have their work, but we, the holy Rabbainu "What is the work of the Jew to do in this world?—Only Torah and prayer"… ...{…….}… ...all, everything is only Torah and prayer Who will work? Are there no non-Jews? They have {many more..}; they will plow and they will do all the work [………] [……...]… ...{..} I did not know that Rebbe Yisroel would go; I thought he would grow old But he went; he was old; he came with, with all the days that he lived He was with Hashem Yisborach, and always occupied himself with Torah and prayer And with such faith and joy, and such light, {…} {…..}… ...one egg every day, one egg. I, I eat one egg every day With bread—not an egg, I eat it with bread. They put the egg into a vessel, some vessel, and also olive oil, and mix it, and I eat, {that is good}… ...and put the egg in water and cover it [Yes] Good [Yes] Cover it for ten moments [Yes, I do] There is time, it is not urgent… ...to occupy oneself with hisbodedus and.. and with Hashem Yisborach, {only He makes for us that there should be a} special place [What, what?] Hisbodedus is a great segulah; it is a great thing; it brings a person great lights Hisbodedus That he can speak before Hashem Yisborach whatever he wants, whatever he needs One can speak before Hashem Yisborach and tell Him everything, what is passing over him Uh, this is what the holy Rabbainu revealed—the greatness, the greatness, the greatness of the thing, the greatness of the matter of hisbodedus: to speak with Hashem Yisborach as we speak, to speak with Hashem Yisborach and tell Him everything, to pray to Him [………...] [Saba, what is preferable to do in halachah? What is preferable to study, to study in halachah?] "Shulchan Aruch"

[Excuse me] "Shulchan ["Shulchan Aruch", yes, halachah] Aruch" [Yes, "Shulchan Aruch"] Yes [But "Shulchan Aruch" and "Mishnah Berurah" and "Be’er Heitev"?] To study in order to know how, how the law is, how the halachah is, how to serve Hashem [..But there are many] There are many, nu [There is "Ben Ish Chai"] What is the name of.. [And Mechaber] There is time for everything [………….] When a person truly wants, then he.., a blessing enters, then he merits everything Every thing, every {good thing}… ...[He says that there are many poskim; he wants to know which path By which path to study the halachah? What is the path th..?] [...I am confused..] There is "Arba’ah Turim", the "Arba’ah Turim" of the Rema [The Rema?] The Rema, and ‘Beis Yosef’ is also {the law for} Sephardim; he, he was Sephardi He made for the Sephardim prayers and.. prayers and the wording of the prayers Each person should conduct himself as he, as he is accustomed from his father, from his mother, from his grandfather [……]… ….[Rabbainu, if we do like Rabbainu] Uh? [If we..] This is the main thing of the entire Torah [Yes] This is the main thing, Rabbainu’s books [..] If only, if only [But Rabbainu’s books in halachah] In halachah [……….] Certainly The Gemara too is holy of holies, the Torah of Hashem [Yes] This is Torah, the Oral Torah, the Shas Yes, but each person according to his strength, according to, according to his understanding But one can—if one truly wants, then a blessing enters, and one merits to occupy oneself greatly in the service of Hashem In Torah and prayer [………..] [….…….]… According to the desire, according to.. If one wants, then one can go through all, through the entire Torah The holy Rabbainu {he speaks} there is, what there is to study, the Shas and the commentators, and the.. and the Torah, {what there is}

But if there is a desire for truth, {with} a strong desire [But sometimes I have a great, great desire] Good [And sometimes there is a small desire] Nu, the main thing is truth, to seek truly, not for oneself And not for a name, and for honor, for money, only truly for Hashem Yisbarach To know how to serve Hashem Yisbarach, that is the whole Torah […….….] [………..]… ...{..}, it is very hard work, to rise at midnight But I saw how Rebbe Yisroel would get up in the winter, in the cold, he would get up, it is beyond nature He would get up at midnight, he went to.. to the field and prayed to Hashem, It is a very great thing, {…..}… [………..…] [………..…]… ...The Freinti family, there is no news, he does not… ...{…}… ...The Gemara, "One who divorces his wife, does not, through this he does not succeed" [Yes, yes, Rabbainu also, Rabbainu also in "Sefer HaMidos"] Yoa, in "Sefer HaMidos," yes [……]... ...In "Sefer HaMidos" it is written this way: "One who divorces his wife..", this is Gemara [Yes, yes] "One who divorces his wife, through this he does not succeed" [……..]… …[……..] It is not good to divorce, on the contrary… ...She cooks and she {gives me}, everything is the wife And I, we did not, I also did not.. think, our holy Rabbainu warns very strongly to honor and have mercy on the wife Because she suffers from bearing the children and from raising the children, and from shopping and cooking, everything is the wife We do not {merit}.., I also got married, and I did not know of this So he, our holy Rabbainu, warns very strongly to honor… ...The wife and to have mercy on her, and to help her with everything {{that is possible for him}} Our holy Rabbainu thinks of what the wife suffers in her life, to raise the children and to bear the children And to shop and to cook, everything is the wife, one must have mercy on her, one must honor her, yes

The world does not, does not speak of this at all, as if the wife is a dog, she.. Our holy Rabbainu, and also the Gemara, the same thing, the Gemara also {speaks} of this Rabbainu even more so, the greatness of the compassion there is for the wife, to help them with everything possible, to help them, yes Because they suffer greatly in their lives from us, from the children… ...I did not know, I did not know in my mind…