Siman 67

(8.) Pertaining to the conversation printed at the end of the Legendary Tales (Sichos HaRan §3), which begins with an elaboration on the great magnitude of Hashem Yisburach. And there, a bit is missing and it was not written as it should be — and so it must be. While he was sitting on the wagon at the time that I traveled with him from here in Breslov to Uman to pass away there, he answered and said: Hashem Yisburach is very great, and no one knows at all etc. And he said [in Yiddish in these words: <em class="yid">"Gott iz grois" — and he drew out the word <em class="yid">"grois" [great] with a wondrous melody upward, and it is impossible to depict this in writing at all]: <em class="yid">"Men veyst gar nit — se tu'en zich oyf der velt azélecheh zachen — men veyst gar nit" [Hashem Yisburach is great — one knows nothing at all — such things transpire in the world — one knows nothing at all]. And I asked him: Have you not already said that now has become known to you the matter of "the ultimate of knowing is not-knowing" etc.? He answered: <em class="yid">"Zint ich bin aroys fun Breslov biz aher veyz ich shoyn oych nit" [Since I departed from Breslov until here, I too no longer know.] (All this he said at the time of the aforementioned conversation — and then only a short while had elapsed since he had departed from Breslov. And if you are somewhat familiar with the depth of his holy conversations, you will understand from this a little of the enormity of his greatness — for he had already said that his "not-knowing" is the greater [attainment] etc., and now he boasted that in so short a time he already no longer knows at all.)