🔥On Thursday, July 13, 1922, 17 Tammuz, an event occurred that would subsequently have repercussions on all generations until the messianic era.
Rabbi Israel Ber Odesser, as was his custom, rose after midnight to recite Tikun Hatsot. He spent the entire night praying and studying. But at dawn he felt extreme weakness. The tempter immediately attacked him and whispered: "Look, you're going to faint, you're so weak... you absolutely must eat something!"
The young man hasn't tasted anything until now, but frightened by this sudden weakness, he forces himself to eat.
After eating, he recites the grace and goes to the mikveh. Arriving at the synagogue, he reflects on the fact that he ate on the 17th of Tammuz – a fast day – and that although permitted by halakha (due to the weakness he felt), he was overcome by the Tempter. He falls into despair during the entire morning prayer. He returns to the Yeshiva and collapses onto a bench.
He only wants one thing: to die!
Then came the descent into the abyss: for several days, he remained prostrate, without eating or drinking. No one knew the cause of his despair, nor that he had failed in his fast. His attitude caused the students of the Yeshiva to mock him, calling him a fool and ridiculing the Breslevs. But what could he do to stop the profanation of the Divine Name? Exhausted, he only invoked the Eternal, saying:
"Master of the world, look where I am! It's true, I have sinned, I have stumbled and fallen, but I want to do teshuva, heal me, get me out of here, get me out of this sadness, for I am profaning your name. Get me out of this depression or I will die…"
Inside, he was a desperate man. His ordeal lasted six days, and on Wednesday, July 19th, an evening thought flashed through his mind: "Go to your library, open a book... And there you will find the cure!" Rabbi Israel dragged himself painfully to his room. For six days, except for Shabbat, he had eaten nothing. Weakened, he reached into his pocket, took out a key, and opened the door to his closet. Among all the books there, he chose the Likutei Halakhot and opened it randomly to page 25. He read a passage about the Talith, then closed the book with a long sigh, visibly disappointed not to find what he was looking for. He was about to put the book back when his fingers caught on a piece of paper. "It's surely a bookmark," he thought. He read what was written on it, and it was a shock!!! Then a wave of happiness overwhelmed him... This young man, barely twenty-six years old, had just discovered the ultimate secret of Rabbi Nahman, the secret of his name and that of final deliverance.
He receives the petek, the letter miraculously written and sent from the Beyond by Rabbi Nahman himself, who had already left this world 112 years earlier. In this letter, Rabbi Nahman writes:
"It was very difficult for me to come down to you."
My dear student, I wanted to let you know that I really appreciated it.
Your divine service, and it is concerning you that I have said:
My fire will burn until the coming of the Messiah.
Be strong and courageous in your service.
Na Na'h Na'hma Nahman Méouman
And by this I reveal a secret to you, and here it is:
Dense and overflowing from one end to the other (P.TS.P.TS.YH)
By strengthening yourself in your service, you will understand it and the sign:
On the 17th of Tammuz, they will say that you are not fasting."
A song at the origin of the renewal of the world
This letter constitutes, to this day, the last teaching of Rabbi Nahman and can be considered the summary of all his teachings. Indeed, in his last teaching (LMII, 8) Rabbi Nahman reveals that there is a New Song, the Shir Hadash, which will be the origin of the renewal of the world, a Song that will be the future world of all the Tzadikim and the Hasidim.
"The stream that flows from Eden to water the Garden." This is the Song of Goodness, based on the Tetragrammaton (the four letters of the ineffable holy name of God) expressed as Simple, Double, Triple, and Quadruple (Tikkun Sohar 51b): Yud, Yud-Ke, Yud-Ke-Vav, Yud-Ke-Vav-Ke. Just a phrase.
This set of ten letters is the supreme form of the ten kinds of melodies, the source of all Creation, which must lead the world to its perfection. The Holy One, blessed be He, associates His Name with that of the Tsadik. Rabbi Nahman reveals to us in the Perek His Name and His Seal, the ultimate emanation of the New Song, the Ten kinds of melodies, destined for the coming of the Messiah and the renewal of the world, the Source of our Judaism and our true attachment to the Tsadik.
Rabbi Israel declared: "Na Na'h…" is a phrase easy to say, and whoever says Na Na'h Na'hma Na'hman Méouman stands on the threshold, ready to enter the origin of creation, the source of the Torah and all the Tzadikim, into a new world!"
Major repairs
Simply recalling the name of Rabbi Nahman, as it appears in the signature of the Pe'tek, Na Na'h Na'hma Na'hman Méouman, is enough to soften all suffering, all dire judgments, to forgive all faults, all failings and all heresies of this world; to annihilate the Evil Side, the darkness and transform the world completely!
It's a message of such a new kind of power, that it had never existed in the world before!
That is why Rabbi Israel revealed to us the importance of saying and singing it, and of saying and repeating it again and again, in all circumstances, with faith and fervor: it is a miraculous remedy in all areas of our existence, to access Teshuvah, to find the path of Truth, the root of our soul, to obtain healing, for children… 🤲
Source: "Rabénou" by Avraham Guézy
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Merci ☺️