THE SEARCH FOR THE TRUE TZADDIK (PART 4)
Through drawing near to the True Tzaddik the poison of the serpent is stopped. And the opposite; through a false leader the poison gains strength. There is a Tzaddik who is so great in stature that he does not envy any other Tzaddik, not in this world and not in the next. He envies only G-d, akin to; he was jelous for my jelousy (stated about pinchas avenging G-d's honor in killing Zimri; Numbers 25:11) The main greatness of the tzaddik in his liftime and after his death is that he draws down and illuminates the very highest light and life force, meaning revelation of the blessed G-d, even in this physical world. Even into the very deepest and coursest places, until he is able to elevate even all those who have fallen and become extremely vulgerized. Until the verse is fulfilled; and every creature will know that you created him... (Rosh Hashanah prayerbook; Amidah) Through drawing near to the tzaddik we merit to faith and heresy is nullified.
The main connection is love. That one should love the tzaddik with a complete love, that his soul should be connected with his soul. One should be very careful to expel from within himself the spirit of foolishness, that fills his heart and clings to him. And by attaching to the true tzaddik, meaning that he loves the tzaddik with all his soul, through this he expels very quickly the foolish spirit from within himself. And through this he merits a broken heart. The relation of the true tzaddik to the world is like that of the head to the body, and the main rectification is when we merit to be close and connnected to the tzaddik as the body is the head, for the main vitatilty of all the limbs comes only from the head. We must seek and search very very much, in each and every generation, for the true tzaddik, with every type of search and with literal self sacrifice. For the main vitality and existence and perpetuation of every member of Israel is only through the true tzaddik. and through Israels search until they find him and draw near to him, through this we merit the complete redemption. And the song will be sung in the future. Happy is the one who merits and wait and yearns for this....
I got about 2 more posts till we are done with this letter, this is kind of a long one and I thought it might be best to split it up allowing us to dive deeper into each section..
Well guys what do you think... Anything to discuss here, thoughts opinions etc...
I started this blog to hear them, I am trying to learn and could you some help.., so please people dont hesitate. My blessings to you all.
NA NACH NACHMA NACHMAN MEUMAN!!!
Do you have anything you'd like to say about this piece or any questions about it?
ReplyDeleteYeah actually I do now. I read on nanach.net today "In this weeks Parsha - Pinchas, we see that Pinchas killed the evil doers and was thus awarded by G-d with peace! So much for those people that think that peace is attained by sweet empty words. Sometimes you just need to cut them down. The Medrash says that spilling the blood (which could mean killing out right, or shaming - when a persons blood rushes to his face) of the evil doers is like bringing an offering to G-d and brings atonement."
ReplyDeleteI am not sure exactly at the significance here but it is interesting above in speaks of this incident in the letter and now also it is this weeks parsha???
I don't know just kinda wierd I posted this the same time..
anyway
something else interesting also later today I was learning Litkutey Moharan with a friend and this topic came to play, that one does not sin unless a spirit of foolishness enters him.., this really to brough on a whole new thought... I mean I am somtimes seen as a bit fanatical about my faith! and the when one views this idea from the torah perspective, who is that has the spirit of foolishness, the one who studys torah and stays away from the things of this world, or the one in the world whos says of the one who studies torah he is foolish! Today I learned sometimes even when we think we are right, we can be wrong! In order to see clearly we must draw close to the tzaddik! then we can see clearly. How do we do this? Torah Study! saying the names of G-d, NA NACH NACHMA NACHMAN MEUMAN!
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We must seek and search very very much, in each and every generation, for the true tzaddik, with every type of search and with literal self sacrifice. For the main vitality and existence and perpetuation of every member of Israel is only through the true tzaddik. and through Israels search until they find him and draw near to him, through this we merit the complete redemption. And the song will be sung in the future. Happy is the one who merits and wait and yearns for this....
SO BY FINDING THE TRUE TZADDIK AND DRAWING NEAR TO HIM, WE MERIT COMPLETE REDEMPTION? How does one draw close to the True Tzaddik? How does one find him? Does it mean know who he is? Cause if thats it we got that figured out... How does one draw close to him?
pg. 186 from Conversations from the Life of the Saba:
ReplyDelete"We need to publicize this that the main part of the redemption is dependent on Rabbainu Rabbi Nachman, to draw close to him. What is it to come close? To learn his books and to fulfill them."
To know who he is is a level, but it's just another beginning.