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Scream to G-d from the depth of Hell One time I (Rabbi Nussun) stood before him, and he o.b.m. was resting on his bed, and the following words were discharged from his holy mouth, and he said these words: “Der (the) ikar (main thing) iz (is), 'meebeten (from the belly of) scheol (-hell) sheevaatee (I screamed) (Jonah 2:3)'.” And see in the book Ullim LiTrufa (Leaves for Healing, letter 60), which brings down there this statement, and writes there the following: And every person is so despondent to the extent that it appears to him as if this was not said regarding him, as if he descended lower than the belly of scheol (-hell) Heaven forbid, and as if he is no longer able to scream, and as if he has already screamed a very great deal and it was to no avail, and many more such excuses and denial. And the truth is not so, for I know the truth, that he o.b.m. intended in all his words also etc. and pertaining every single person etc., see there. (Words of Rabbi Nachman, article 302).