"Oh, that I should merit to see the light of clarity on the paths you travel upon to me..." (Chayei Mohara"n 291).

When traveling to our Rebbe, one receives fear of Heaven. Our Rebbe said, "I am a treasure of fear of Heaven." From every step taken towards our Rebbe, one receives awe; from every step, an angel is created. From every movement for our Rebbe, more angels are created, another angel and another angel. Just from the journey alone, one merits to receive a great light. For our Rebbe is fire. Traveling to our Rebbe is traveling on paths of fire. Our holy Rebbe was entirely a pillar of fire, a flame for Hashem, he never saw the world, never heard the world, nothing in the world interested him.

The entire work of a person is to seek the true tzaddik, to discover who the true tzaddik is. In every generation, there is a true tzaddik, and the moment a person knows who the true tzaddik is, he can bring all the healings to the world, all the salvations to the world, because all the salvations are in the hands of the tzaddik. Therefore, one must constantly seek the tzaddik, and even when a person already knows there is Rebbe Nachman, he still does not know what Rebbe Nachman is! The entire work from the day a person is born until the day he passes is to seek the tzaddik. He must know that as much as he has discovered about the tzaddik, he has still discovered nothing. Only when the tzaddik is something new to him, and he seeks the tzaddik with all his might, then he will be given more life, and more life.One must be careful with this and know that for this he came into the world, for this he was born. Everything he learns, everything he does, is only to ask and seek the true Rebbe.

A person needs to receive "nefesh", "ruach", "neshamah", "chayah", and "yechidah". The Arizal says that through the study of the Talmud and poskim, the early and later sages, one receives the "nefesh". It could be that you have already received the nefesh through the study of Torah, which is wonderful because without Torah there is not even a nefesh, but you cannot advance. If you do not seek the tzaddik, then you cannot receive the "ruach", you cannot receive the "neshamah", you remain at the same level, because only through the tzaddik can one receive the "ruach". This is what the Arizal explains, that there are tzaddikim who pass away at a young age because they studied Torah and merited to receive the "nefesh" but did not seek the tzaddik and remained at the same level (nefesh), and therefore had nothing more to do in the world. Hence, one must always seek and ask greatly for the tzaddik, with whom are all the salvations, all the healings, and all the blessings, and he will give you the "ruach", the "neshamah", etc. Rabbi Natan says that one must go on his hands and feet, to ask and seek the tzaddik with all his might throughout the world, perhaps he will find some word from our Rebbe, because wherever they speak of our Rebbe, one must go on hands and feet, perhaps now I will receive an awakening, perhaps now I will know who Rebbe Nachman is, perhaps now I will know the power of Rebbe Nachman...

The Rebbe said, "I have great compassion for two groups of people: those who could draw close to me and do not, and those who draw close to me and do not fulfill my words. For I know there will come a time when a person will lie on the ground with his feet towards the door, and then he will look at himself well and regret very much that he did not merit to draw close to me" (Chayei Mohara"n - His Journey to Eretz Yisrael - 354). A person has already drawn close to our Rebbe, has already taken the step, left the nonsense, left all the friends, left all the careers. If you just make a little more effort to fulfill the words of our Rebbe, then you can receive the complete rectification. There is no level that our Rebbe cannot bring you to! Because after passing away, a person will truly know what a great and immense loss he suffered by not listening to our Rebbe.

Whoever knows of our Rebbe and believes in our Rebbe can truly touch our Rebbe. A person arrives in Uman, and our Rebbe elevates him to the highest worlds - "Atika Kadisha". In Uman, one is in the highest worlds, with our Rebbe, everything can be accomplished! If one comes to our Rebbe and does teshuvah, confession, regret, and acceptance for the future, then one can merit to receive a new nefesh, a new ruach, a new neshamah, a new chayah, and a new yechidah. With our Rebbe, on the eve of Rosh Hashanah, there were 600 people at the gathering, and our Rebbe received each one from 8 in the morning until 6 in the evening, meaning each one was with our Rebbe for only one minute! And when he entered our Rebbe, he immediately remembered his sins from the day he was born, and he began to confess, and streams of tears like a river burst from his eyes. And when he began to say a few words, our Rebbe would send him out and tell him to continue the confession outside. Therefore, one must come to our Rebbe and remember everything that happened to us and shed rivers of tears, and then we will merit to receive new nefesh, ruach, neshamah, chayah, and yechidah.

When one merits to come to the holy grave and prostrate on the grave, the Rebbe speaks to us, whispers in our ears, encourages us, and hears our cries. People who never cried suddenly have something enter them that causes them to cry, the neshamah of Moshe, the neshamah of our holy Rebbe enters them when they come to the holy grave. People wonder, will I have an awakening? Will I feel something? These thoughts are a mistake. The matter of Rosh Hashanah is not about feelings, nor awakening. Rather, the matter of Rosh Hashanah is only about nullification, reaching absolute nothingness, standing on the grave, and praying, reaching the peak of nullification, feeling the infinite light, knowing there is none besides Him. There is only Hashem in the world! There is nothing else in the world besides Him. Because our entire coming to the holy grave of our Rebbe is to crown Hashem and to know there is none besides Him, and therefore we say on Rosh Hashanah "The King". We did not come to make requests, we did not come to receive rewards, but our entire coming to the holy grave is to know that "there is none besides Him"!