Ullim LeTroofah – Letter 387 | Wednesday Rosh Chodesh Tammuz 5602 Berdichev — He Did Not Procure Money From the City — All That the Merciful One Does He Does for Good — His Eyes Are Lifted to Him Alone — What One Sees on the Road — In Particular in the Great Cities — The Cry of Each Person Reaches to the Heavens — One Hears in Their Inwardness — What Is the Purpose — What Will Become of Us — The Cry of the Livelihood — U'Motzei Ani Mar Mi'Maves Es Ha'Ishah — Were It Not for the Salt the World Could Not Endure the Bitterness — This Is His Consolation — In the Great Chasadim of Hashem He Informed Him of the Covenant of Eternal Salt That Sweetens All

Ullim LeTroofah

עלים לתרופה

Leaves for Healing

The Sacred Letters of Rebbe Nachman of Breslov and Reb Nussun of Breslov, of blessed memory

LETTER THREE HUNDRED AND EIGHTY-EIGHT

Blessed be Hashem · Wednesday, Rosh Chodesh Tammuz — Berdichev · Year 5602 (1842)

ToPeace — to my beloved son — my dear one — the rabbinical scholar — our Teacher the Rabbi Yitzchok — may he live — with all his children who go forth from his loins — may they live.

He received his letter today — and he already preceded to send him his letter from here. He did not procure money here from the city at all — only a little from his brother-in-law and from his innkeeper — and he still does not know if it will suffice for the expenses to Uman. And all that the Merciful One does — He does for good — his eyes are lifted to Him alone — until He will grace all of them in material and spiritual. What one sees on the road — one sees more — and in particular in the great cities like here. The cry of each person and his bitterness reaches to the heavens. And one who understands hears that in their inwardness they are crying: what is the purpose — and what will become of us in the end. But in their externality one hears more the cry of the finding of existence — of what each and every person finds — which is the matter: "u'motzei ani mar mi'maves es ha'ishah" — "and I find more bitter than death — the woman" — which is the livelihood — as our Sages of blessed memory said. [Yevamos 63b] [The Talmudic passage: what is the verse referring to? The ishah — the wife — the Sages interpret as the livelihood — the pursuit of one's existence — which is more bitter than death. Reb Nussun takes this teaching and applies it with great compassion to the universal human cry he witnesses in Berdichev — the great commercial city — where the bitterness of earning one's bread fills the air] And also literally — what they suffer from her — and the essential in the matter of the livelihood. And one sees with one's own senses what our Master our Teacher and our Rebbe — of blessed memory — said — that were it not for the salt — the world could not endure the bitterness — as is explained in Likutai Moharan part 1 ch. 23. And this is his consolation in his poverty — in what he knows clearly all this. And in the great chasadim of Hashem — He informed him of the covenant of eternal salt that sweetens all this. Mah nashiv laHashem kol tagmulohi aleinu.

Nussun of Breslov.

Overview: Wednesday, Rosh Chodesh Tammuz — Berdichev — 5602. To Yitzchok and all his household. He received his letter today — and he already preceded to send him his letter from here. He did not procure money here from the city at all — only a little from his brother-in-law and from his innkeeper — and he still does not know if it will suffice for the expenses to Uman. And all that the Merciful One does — He does for good — his eyes are lifted to Him alone. What one sees on the road — one sees more — and in particular in the great cities like here. The cry of each person and his bitterness reaches to the heavens. And one who understands hears that in their inwardness they are crying: what is the purpose — and what will become of us in the end. But in their externality one hears more the cry of the finding of existence — "u'motzei ani mar mi'maves es ha'ishah" — which is the livelihood — as our Sages said (Yevamos 63b). And also literally — what they suffer from her — and the essential in the matter of the livelihood. And one sees with one's own senses what our Master said — that were it not for the salt — the world could not endure the bitterness — as explained in Likutai Moharan part 1 ch. 23. And this is his consolation in his poverty — in what he knows clearly all this. And in the great chasadim of Hashem — He informed him of the covenant of eternal salt that sweetens all this. Mah nashiv laHashem kol tagmulohi aleinu.

Key Themes

The Cry of Each Person Reaches to the Heavens — One Who Understands Hears in Their Inwardness — What Is the Purpose — What Will Become of Us — The Cry of the Livelihood — U'Motzei Ani Mar Mi'Maves Es Ha'Ishah — This Is the LivelihoodThe cry of each person and his bitterness reaches to the heavens. One who understands hears that in their inwardness they are crying: what is the purpose — and what will become of us in the end. But in their externality one hears more the cry of the finding of existence — "u'motzei ani mar mi'maves es ha'ishah" — which is the livelihood — as our Sages said (Yevamos 63b). And also literally what they suffer from her — and the essential in the matter of the livelihood.

Were It Not for the Salt the World Could Not Endure the Bitterness — Likutai Moharan Ch. 23 — This Is His Consolation in His Poverty — In the Great Chasadim of Hashem He Informed Him of the Covenant of Eternal Salt That Sweetens All — Mah Nashiv LaHashem Kol Tagmulohi AleinuOne sees with one's own senses what our Master said — that were it not for the salt — the world could not endure the bitterness — as explained in Likutai Moharan part 1 ch. 23. This is his consolation in his poverty — in what he knows clearly all this. And in the great chasadim of Hashem — He informed him of the covenant of eternal salt that sweetens all this. Mah nashiv laHashem kol tagmulohi aleinu.