How Do You See Hashem Face to Face?

The Daily Chizuk from our teacher, the Gaon and Tzaddik, Rav Eliezer Berland shlit"a – "One must hold onto all the righteous tzaddikim - but our Rebbe is the inner essence"

Sunday, 11 Tammuz 5782 – What makes Breslov Chassidut special compared to all others? These are his holy words:

[ Even here, there is one opponent whose son began to draw closer to our Anshei Shlomeinu and studied much Gemara and Poskim. Now, those wicked men who call themselves Chassidim are forcing him, preventing him against his will from studying Gemara and Poskim, and saying that it is better to speak with them. His father shouted at his aforementioned son: "I provide you with food on the condition that you do not study more than one page of Gemara each day, no more, because whoever studies all day is a 'Breslover', etc."

The point is that the opponents are not standing in the way of studying the books of our Rebbe z"l, but rather the inner intent of the evil in their hearts is to abolish the entire Torah from Israel. For you know the deeds of the youth, especially in this generation, and there is no salvation except through the Torah. And there is no one who brings the study of Torah and the fulfillment of the Torah into the world like our master, our teacher, and our Rebbe z"l, through the truth of his holy ways that he revealed to us and in his holy books; and for this, they provoked us so much, saying: "Come, let us wipe them out, Heaven forbid." (Alim LiTerufa, 174) ]

The entire essence of Breslov is to see Hashem face to face.

Because the Rebbe says (Torah 14, Likutey Moharan) that all Chassidic movements are kosher; a person must humble himself before the tzaddikim and before all average people and say that I am the worst of all, but tzaddikim are tzaddikim.

Admorim, Rebbes, all are holy of holies, but there is 'face to face' which is something entirely different – there is the inner essence of the inner essence of the inner essence, and that is our holy Rebbe.

All songs are holy, but the Song of Songs is the holy of holies – that is our Rebbe, he is the holy of holies, he is the inner essence of the inner essence so that we may see Hashem face to face.

If one does not see Hashem face to face, we have seen nothing. All study of Gemara is the vessel to see Hashem face to face.

Rabbi Avraham, son of the Rambam, brings that they (the Arab scholars who lived in his time) have dervishes, and they have fakirs, and they have monks. They go to the deserts to seclude themselves, but they do not see Hashem – to see Hashem is only through the study of Gemara.

Hashem revealed this only to the people of Israel – that it is impossible to see Hashem face to face, except through the study of Gemara. Studying Ketzot HaChoshen, Netivot HaMishpat, Tokfo Kohen, the Shach; a person needs to know the entire Shach by heart. In Heichal HaBracha (by Rabbi Yitzchak Isaac Yehuda Yechiel Safrin of Komarno), he says that one must know the Shach as one knows "Ashrei Yoshvei Veitecha" by heart, with the Turim, with everything.

A person needs to see; everyone wants to see Hashem face to face, even a blind person wants to see. Therefore, they are monks, fakirs, and dervishes—they have all sorts of names for all their delusional followers—but they see nothing, they grope in the darkness. In order to see Hashem, it is only through the study of Gemara.