Likutei Moharan

In the final podcast we’ll do on Likutei Moharan, we’ll discuss a range of topics: Shabbat, Emunah, heresy, blessing, Uniting the sun and the moon/YHVH and ELOKIM, Yitzchak and Yaakov, humility and pride…We also talk about dreams and grace…אשרינו שזכינו להתקרב לרבינו נ נח נחמ נחמן מאומן

Rabeinu gives additional understanding to lesson 275, which discusses the idea that the mitzvot a person performs creates candles that allow him to search the treasury of the King once he leaves this world. We also study a manuscript which Rabeinu wrote explaining how pride makes a person fall into heresy, confounding a person from his faith in G-d. Rabeinu teaches us how to rectify this, how to expand/greaten our faith, how to rebuild Yerushalayim, and restore our superiority over the Goyim etc…

Rabeinu discusses many concepts, ranging from nullifying bad traits, revealing G-d’s glory, how to strengthen faith when we are overcome with doubts, speech as gevurah, how animalistic eating can lead to fever, screaming from the heart, sanctifying relations, sukkot, the nourishment of animals vs humans, construction…

Manuscript of Torah 109: Rabeinu explains how sighing is able to make us a completely new creation, detaching ourselves from the air of impurity and attaching ourselves to the vapor of purity!Manuscript on Parashat Ekev: Rabeinu speaks about the need of asking advice from the true Tzadikim, his children, and his students. Rabeinu also speaks about suffering and how to sweeten the afflictions before they reach you and even after they reach you. Rabeinu also talks about dancing, happiness, love, fear, etc…

Rabeinu teaches us that there are 2 types of heresy: one heresy is a heresy that we can answer and refute but there’s another heresy that is much more dangerous that one cannot answer to it, for the wisdom of this heresy is actually not a wisdom at all. This second heresy stems from the Vacated Space that G-d created before creation. Rabeinu teaches us though that through faith/emunah that G-d fills and surrounds all the worlds, we can surpass this second heresy and ascend above their questions.

Rabeinu delves very deeply into the subject of faith and how to increase faith in the Creator. Rabeinu teaches us that through faith, one is able to purify his food so that when a person eats, he’s able to cause the unification between G-d and His Divine Presence face to face. This Torah also discusses the reasons for why one falls into heretical questions and the 2 different types of questions that you either have to answer or you can’t answer/have to rely on faith alone. Rabeinu discuss how to create peace between the good and evil inclination, how to elevate the sparks of holiness from among the klipot, and how to strengthen the letters of speech to protect it from Pharaoh and his 3 officers: the head butcher, baker, and butler!

Rabeinu explains Rabbi Akiva’s saying in the Gemara Chagiga before he and 3 other sages ascended into Pardes… Rabeinu teaches us that this saying is teaching us the importance of speaking words of truth, and avoiding words of falsehood. Rabeinu speaks about how purity is only applicable in the case that impurity exists. He also discusses how one can ascend to the time before creation where everything is one and no evil exists, only oneness!Through TRUTH one is able to draw down G-d’s Divine Providence over himself…

Rabeinu explains how to draw down G-d’s Divine providence through charity, the Chacham/Tzadik’s ability to elevate souls, renew them in the aspect of Ibur/pregnancy, bring down the Torah of the Mashiach, and draw down chesed and da’at, hashgacha, vision, nullifying the desire for money, etc…

Rabeinu explains how to draw down G-d’s Divine providence through charity, the Chacham/Tzadik’s ability to elevate souls, renew them in the aspect of Ibur/pregnancy, bring down the Torah of the Mashiach, and draw down chesed and da’at, hashgacha, vision, nullifying the desire for money, etc…

Rabeinu explains how to draw down G-d’s Divine providence through charity, the Chacham/Tzadik’s ability to elevate souls, renew them in the aspect of Ibur/pregnancy, bring down the Torah of the Mashiach, and draw down chesed and da’at, hashgacha, vision, nullifying the desire for money, etc…

Torah 121 Tinyana: Rabeinu says it’s very important to not look at the prayer as a whole because it will disturb your concentration (the fact that there’s so much to say discouraged you). Rather just focus on a small piece of the prayer at a time, telling yourself…Torah 122: Rabeinu speaks about subduing foreign thoughts during prayer and compares it with going to war…Torah 123: The Mikveh…Torah 124: Take advantage of the moment when you receive a thought of Teshuva or longing for G-d in a specific place, and don’t leave that place or wait for later to pray or act on that feeling. Torah 125: One must read all the supplications and specifically Tehillim with the intention of finding yourself in every single chapter, seeing how every single chapter applies to you specifically. One must also encourage himself in finding the good points!

Torah 118 Tinyana: preparing before giving Torah lessons is much greater than giving a lesson spontaneously!Torah 119: This world is filled with suffering and there is no way around it. The only wya to redeem yourself from this suffering is to toil in the Torah…Torah 120: Rabeinu warns us to pay attention to the words of prayer and what they literally mean. Rabeinu tells us that one should not study kavanot to practice them in prayer but rather just to learn and teach. Rabeinu told a student of his who was studying the writings of the Arizal not to pray with the kavanot at all…

Torah 116 Tinyana: Rabeinu explains that when he went to Eretz Yisrael, he was told by the many great Tzadikim who had moved there from Eastern Europe that they never thought that Israel actually existed in the physical realm, simply because it’s awesome holiness is described in the Torah. It sounds to be above this earth entirely. Rabeinu explains that Eretz Yisrael on the surface level seems completely like every other country, and there’s absolutely no difference. The same is true of the comparison between the Tzadikim / upright people and the rest of the world. But the emet la’amito / ultimate truth is that its holiness is not even to be compared! It’s so extremely lofty!Torah 117 Tinyana: Rabeinu explains why a person might experience a nocturnal emission when drawing close to holiness or to the true tzadik etc… Rabeinu says not to be confused by this at all…

Rabeinu speaks about an array of important subjects: analyzing his Torah lessons, thinking about Torah during marital relations, distancing oneself from sexual desire, human behavior, the repercussions of our actions…Rabeinu also discusses the great holiness of the Kivrei Tzadikim / burial places of the true tzaidkim and explains that they have the literal holiness of the Land of Israel. Rabeinu also talks about the simplicity of free will, about prayer being the primary way to draw close to G-d, encouraging oneself to never give up, experiencing a glimmer of G-d, the tremendous blemish that immoral thoughts cause, and being clear headed in serving G-d walking in a certain path for long periods of time!

Rabeinu gives us more advice and encouragement about hitbodedut. He also explains that the main way to recite Tikkun hatzot is to recite it as if it’s happening right now, in the present moment! This allows a person to truly awaken his heart with an arousal and longing for G-d, and enables him to express everything on his heart. We must also recite the tehillim by finding ourselves in every single chapter. The entire Tehillim was written about the war between a person and the evil inclination, and with ease, a person can find each and every chapter applicable to himself wherever he is!Rabeinu also envied those simple upright people who recited the extra prayers, tehillim, and supplications in the large prayer books. Rabeinu tells us that the primary thing in serving G-d is total simplicity and wholeheartedness!

Rebbe Nathan brings a few conversations Rabeinu gave about the importance of spending time every single day to do hitbodedut/express yourself to G-d in your own language, speaking to Him about absolutely everything!Rebbe Nachman emphasizes this practice as being the ultimate way to be a truly upright and holy individual.

Torah 92 Tinyana: Rabeinu explains the Tikkun Haklali- the rectification for nocturnal emission/blemishing the covenant. Torah 93: The reason why people have machloket/argument on Rebbe Nachman is because his entire task in this world was bringing people closer to true prayer, and prayer stands at the summit of the world! “That which stands at the summit is degraded by the sins of man.”Torah 94: When one goes to the true Tzadik for Rosh Hashana, he brings together the 3 different “heads,” accomplishing an awesome tikkun!Torah 95: Rabeinu explains that one should pray with true sincerity to the point where one merits to cry genuinely before G-d, like a son before his father. But one must make sure not have the thought of wanting to cry in the back of your mind, because that too is not genuine. The only way to properly do this is to concentrate your mind on the words that are emerging out of your mouth, and with ease you’ll arouse true tears!

Genuinely attaching yourself to the true Tzadikim is extremely beneficial and accomplished the following rectifications: one merits to do complete teshuva, to atone for sin, sweeten and nullify judgements completely, and unify G-d & the Divine Presence!Rabeinu explains that the true Tzadik’s entire task is to elevate the common people, who represent limited consciousness/lower wisdom, to the aspect of upper wisdom/ G-d and the Torah. The way he does so is by speaking with these people about mundane events and worldly conversations…

Torah 89 Tinyana: Rabeinu explains that Da’at is responsible for bringing two opposites together, which is why Da’at makes all Shidduchim. All Shidduchim are opposites and sometimes extremely opposite from one another. Therefore, one must bring Da’at from potential to actual so one can find his match!How does one actualize Da’at? By going to the Tzadik/the man of true Da’at to listen to him give a Torah!Torah 90: Rabeinu explains why we break an earthenware vessel at the time when an engagement is finalized!

Torah 87 Tinyana: The kavanot of Elul are THE rectification for blemishing the covenant! Rabeinu explains this the main blemish occurs in the aspect of Derekh (numerical value of 224) - that one didn’t illuminate the sea/faith with the 224 lights, and instead “all flesh perverted it’s WAY/ Darko (same root as Derekh). Rabeinu explains that these kavanot of Elul are propitious to find one’s soulmate, and to instill within his partner a desire for him. Rabeinu gave this awesome secret to Eliezer, his servant, when he went on the journey to find Yitzchak’s soulmate…Look at lesson 6 of Likutei Moharan, analyze it, and practice what is written there to truly accomplish this rectification. Torah 88: Rabeinu teaches us that one must be very very careful not to eat fruits that aren’t fully ripened! As long as the fruit is not yet ripe, it has the power of sucking in nutrients… when you cut the fruit off the tree before it’s ripe, it still has the power to suck in, and therefore can suck the vitality of the soul who’s eating the fruit!One who’s strong in serving G-d can find lost items in the fruit he eats…One who makes a blessing on the fruit he eats with proper concentration and fear of Heaven can save himself from this damage. Rabeinu teaches us that there is an angel that has many deputies under it which all hold shofars and dig for lost items. They blow a Tekiah, Teruah, and then a Tekiah and make a great uproar and celebration when they find a lost item.Both of these lessons are extremely connected and have tremendous secrets hidden in them! May we have the merit to understand them and apply them b”H!