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A Prayer to Merit on the 3rd of Cheshvan the Forgiveness of Sins

to Increase Joy in All Limbs, and to Merit True Faith

עורך ראשי
A Prayer to Merit on the 3rd of Cheshvan the Forgiveness of Sins

"The 3rd of Cheshvan - The Secret of the Essence of the Day Atones"

The 3rd of Cheshvan is a fast day of tzaddikim, when all the iniquities and all the sins in the world are forgiven. For on Yom Kippur, the daughters of Israel go out in dances and circles (mecholot) endlessly, without limit, and without end. Then, all sins are forgiven through the dancing and circles, because through circles (mecholot) is the secret of the forgiveness (mechilat) of all sin. All types of sins in the world are forgiven, as the holy and awesome Rebbe Nachman says, if one does true teshuvah (repentance) during the dancing, and sees to it that the joy enters each and every limb, into the 248 limbs and 365 sinews. As it is written, "You have put joy in my heart," and "Everlasting joy shall be upon their heads," until the joy passes from the crown of the head to the tips of the soles of the feet. Until even the toenail feels the intensity of the joy and smiles from an abundance of joy, as it is written, "He looks at the earth, and it trembles; He touches the mountains, and they smoke." Then, we rectify "her feet go down to death," and we merit through the dancing to rectify all the aspects of the feet that exist in the Nation of Israel and in the entire world. This is why Hashem said to Noah, "Go out of the ark, you and your wife, and your sons and your sons' wives with you." For the women represent the aspect of the feet, and Hashem wanted Noah to rectify his wife and the souls of his sons. Specifically, the wife of Ham, who was very far from holiness and gave birth to Og, King of Bashan; and while inside the ark, she conceived a child from Sichon, King of the Amorites, who embodied the greatest impurity in the world. Noah wanted to bind them to Hashem, may He be blessed, who is the root of their souls and the One who created them. Ultimately, Noah succeeded through dancing to elevate all the aspects of the feet. Therefore, "then" (8) "on the fifth" (355) "teen" (570) "of Av" (5) = 938, and "then will be built" (77) "the House of" (412) "the Sanctuary" (449) = 938, because "resembles" (55) "the Rav" (207) "to an angel of" (121) "Hashem" (26) "of Hosts" (499) = 938. And we will merit on the fifteenth of Av, and on Yom Kippur, and for all of life, to true faith in the tzaddikim, because "faith of" (497) "truth" (441) = 938. This is the Gematria of "the essence of" (212) "the" (330) "day" (56) "atones" (340) = 938, which is the Gematria of "then" (8) "on the fifteenth" (355) (570) "of Av" (5) = 938. And then, "we will see Him" (262) "eye" (130) "to eye" (132) "when He returns" (316) "to" (31) "His dwelling" (67) = 938, because "the ransomed of" (110) "Hashem" (26) "shall return" (374) "and come" (15) "to Zion" (156) "with joyful shouting" (257) = 938.

For the success of the Halakeh (Upsherin) child, Naftali the son of Moriah Rachel and Yehuda Cohen, may they merit to raise him to Torah, to the chupah (marriage canopy), and to good deeds, in the path of the holy and awesome Rebbe Nachman.

B'Siyata Dishmaya (With the Help of Heaven) 1351

To Merit on the 3rd of Cheshvan the Forgiveness of Sins, to Increase Joy in All Limbs, and to Merit True Faith in the Tzaddikim in Truth and Earnestness, and Then We Will Be Saved with an Eternal Salvation

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