The daily strengthening from The Rav, Rabbi Eliezer Berland shlit"a: “Only when you fall to the floor do you find the diamond,” from the story of the Lame Man in Rebbe Nachman of Breslov zy"a’s Stories

Thursday, 9 Sivan 5785 — These are his holy words:

The murderers robbed him of the chest of money. And he was lame—poor and broken—so he fell from the wagon.

The young man ran off, the wagon driver ran off, and so he had to crawl on the ground—and he crawled and crawled.

Each time he tasted a blade of grass, so he ate grass and more grass.

Suddenly he uprooted a clump of grass and saw a diamond.

Only when a person is already on the floor, crawling on the ground—after they took his chest of money, after they stole everything from him and didn’t leave him a single coin—

when from every direction he is only oppressed and robbed—only then will he find the diamond.

Only then, when you fall, will you find the diamond.

Water it—when Heaven and earth connect.