When You Fall to the Floor, You Find the Diamond

The Daily Chizuk from our teacher, the Gaon and Tzaddik, Rabbi Eliezer Berland shlit"a, "Only when you fall to the floor do you find the diamond," from the Tale of the Lame Man in the Tales of Rabbi Nachman of Breslov zya"a.

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

The murderers robbed him of the chest containing the money, and he was lame, a poor soul, so he fell from the wagon.

The boy ran away from him, the wagon driver ran away from him, so he had to crawl on the ground, and he crawled and crawled.

Every time he tasted a blade of grass, he would eat the grass.

Suddenly, he uprooted a blade of grass and saw a diamond.

Only when a person is already on the floor, crawling on the ground, after they have taken his chest of money, stolen everything from him, and left him without a penny.

From every direction he is only oppressed and robbed – only then will he find the diamond.

Only then, when one falls, will he find the diamond.

He watered it when Heaven and Earth connect.