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In the holy community of Zlatipola (332) he once fasted from Shabbas to Shabbas, and on Friday he had to travel to the bath in a wagon because he could not walk. And he said this was because the matter became known to many — from this he became so weakened. Rabbainu o.b.m. — even though he had a special room in the village where he sat alone — even so he would go most of the time through the open fields among some forest and the like, and would engage in much hisbodidus there. And once I walked with him in the holy community of Medvedevka (333) where he had resided at first as mentioned, and I walked with him here and there by the fields and hills. And he waved his hand over the fields and hills. And he said to me: Over all these fields and hills that you see surrounding the town — and over all the places nearby around the city on all sides — in all of them I have walked and gone around many many times. Meaning he was going in hisbodidus in all the aforementioned places. And he told me that on top of that hill there is a very high place, and at the very summit of its height there is something like a valley within it. And he would go up to the top of the height of the hill and enter within the valley inside it, and there he loved to engage in hisbodidus many times. And sometimes he would go in other places as mentioned. And all this was in the holy community of Medvedevka where he had already been a renowned Tzadik when he resided there. Apart from the fact that he greatly multiplied hisbodidus at the time when he lived in the village as mentioned. And similarly at first when he lived in Mezhibuzh, and also afterward when he lived in Zlatipola, and here in the holy community of Breslov — every single day he would engage in much hisbodidus. And many times he was in hisbodidus the entire whole day (334). 332. RAK: Rabbainu moved to live in Zlatipola in Elul 5560 — a year and four months after returning from the Land of Israel. 333. RAK: Rabbainu lived in Medvedevka from the year 5550 at age eighteen until 5560. 334. RAK: See above 117.