Siman 82

(2.) In the year 5567 [1806/7] in Breslov, the Torah portion Vayechi [Genesis 47:28–50:26] — after I had sanctified the new moon myself, he said to me: If you had been joyful, there would have been a great good for the world. Afterwards he told this: He saw in a dream that there were going very many armies, and flying after them were very many birds — a great exaggeration — and I asked the one beside me why the birds were flying after them. And he told me that they were going to help those armies. And I asked: How would they help them? And he answered me: These birds deposit from themselves a fluid — and through that fluid those opposing them are destroyed — and in this way they help those armies. And it was difficult for me: was not the place where they deposited the fluid also where those armies were, and would it not also harm them? Meanwhile I saw — and the birds began to lower themselves to the ground until they all stood on the earth, and they walked after the armies and were picking up from the ground with their mouths. And the thing they picked up was round and was not a foodstuff. And it was difficult for me — how would these birds come and go after the armies, for in walking, a person walks faster than birds? And what was it they were picking up? And they told me that what they were picking up — from this is made the aforementioned fluid that kills those opposing them, as stated. And in every place they deposit the fluid, through this those opposing them in that place are destroyed and die. And I entered a hidden place, and I saw that there was an extremely low entrance, and I entered there and lay myself down, and there were no windows in that room, and it was dark there. And I entered there because I wanted to hide, and I hid there. Meanwhile all the birds began to enter there, and I wanted to chase them away, and I was waving them away with my hand — and a cat stood before them, and it is the way of birds to flee from a cat. But these birds did not at all flee from the cat and paid it no attention. And they told me that these birds are not afraid of anything whatsoever — only of one thing. And they told me what that one thing is — and I have forgotten it. And among those birds there was one that was extremely old, and he said: The world imagines that this place [where we are hiding] is hidden, but I remember when this place was open. And these words are very deep. (The transcriber says: I heard that before the night on which he began to say the aforementioned discourse at the evening meal — he told before the meal the story of the birds and the Mazal Tov, which is explained elsewhere [above, in the Chronological Index at article 59, under Torah 66].)