T119 (Tinyana) PNC - There Is No Olam ha-Zeh — Only Olam ha-Ba and Maybe Gehinom
Petek Nanach Running Commentary on Likutey Moharan
[T2:119א] רבינו: אין שום עוה"ז, גם לעשירים. קה' ב:כג; איוב יד:א. "אדם לעמל יולד" — ב"ר יג: בריחה לתורה ולה' = העצה היחידה.
**Dibber imanu kammah pe'amim mei-inyan yi-surei olam ha-zeh, she-kol bnei ha-olam kulam meleim yi-surin, ein gam echad she-yih'yeh lo olam ha-zeh.** *Every single human being is full of yi-surim. Not one has olam ha-zeh*. **Va-afilu ha-ashirim ha-gedoilim va-afilu ha-sarim ein la-hem shum olam ha-zeh klal** — *all their days kaas u-mach'ovois, all of them filled with terados, daagois, atzvus, yagoin va-anachah tomid*. *Even the one who appears* to have *kol ha-ta'anugim — osher u-nechasim ve-kavoid ve-hoin rav va-armoinois gedoilim ve-keilim niflo'im* — *im yistaklu bo hetev, hu gam-kein malei kaas u-mach'ovois harbeih tomid be-chammah minei ofanim va-inyanim, ka-nireh ba-chush.* **Ve-ein tzarich le-vareir zos le-mi she-yeish lo mo'ach be-kadkado u-mistakeil ketzas ba-hem be-emes.** **Koheles 2:23**: **"gam kol yamav kaas u-mach'ovois."** **Iyov 14:1**: **"adam le-amal yulad, ketzar yamim u-seva rogez."** *Zeh koleil kol bnei adam mi-katan ad gadol.* **Ve-ein shum eitzah ve-sachboilah le-hi-natzeil me-amal ve-yagoin zeh ki im li-vroach el HaShem yisbarach ve-la'asok ba-Toirah.**
[T2:119ב] חידוש רבינו: בעוה"ז שאנו מכירים = הגיהנם; "אין נמצא שום עוה"ז כלל." עוה"ב — מאמינים; עוה"ז אמיתי — "אולי באיזה עולם."
**Anah ve-amar Rabbeinu**: *hinei ha-kol oimrim, she-yeish olam ha-zeh ve-olam ha-ba. Ve-hinei olam ha-ba — anu ma'aminim she-yeish olam ha-ba. Efshar yeish gam olam ha-zeh gam-kein be-eizo olam, ki ba-kan nireh she-hu ha-Gehinom, ki kulam meleim yi-surin gedoilim tomid.* **Ve-amar: she-ein nimtza shum olam ha-zeh klal.** Rabbeinu's *koh sharp framing*: olam ha-ba exists — that we believe. *Olam ha-zeh* — *perhaps* exists somewhere else. *But here*, in *the place everyone calls "olam ha-zeh," he*re *is the Gehinom*, *ki kulam meleim yi-surim*. *He flat-out said: there is no olam ha-zeh found at all.* **The mussar-take**: *do not try to extract a Gan Eden from a Gehinom — bro'ach el HaShem ve-la'asok ba-Torah*. That alone is *the eitzah*.
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