When You Reach Rebbe Nachman, the Hidden Light Is Revealed

The Daily Chizuk from The Rav, the holy Tzaddik Rabbi Eliezer Berland shlit"a — “All of prayer is for the sake of the songs”

“All Israel have a share in the World to Come” (Sanhedrin 90a)

“A shoot, the work of My hands, in which to take pride” (Isaiah 60:21)

“And there was light” (Genesis 1:3)

“And Moshe consented to dwell” (Exodus 2:21)

“He will be exalted and lifted up, and very, very high” (Isaiah 52:13)

Friday, 28 Iyar 5783 — “Saying The Tikkun HaKlali draws down the Primordial Light.”

These are his holy words:

The main thing is the songs and the melodies. People step outside when they hear singing, as if it’s unnecessary. But the truth is that all of prayer is for the sake of the songs.

Rebbe Nachman says in Torah 64 that through songs you can bring the entire world back in teshuvah. You don’t even need to speak to them. When a person sings and plays, he awakens all the hearts of Israel. Because all hearts are Godliness. Every Jew is Godliness—“All Israel have a share in the World to Come” (Sanhedrin 90a). That is a Mishnah; you cannot change it.

“All Israel have a share in the World to Come,” “A shoot, the work of My hands, in which to take pride” (Isaiah 60:21). Every Jew is Godliness—every Jew… It doesn’t matter if right now he is against religion; it’s all politics. Right now it simply pays him…

Every person’s heart burns for Torah. That isn’t even a question.

The avodah is to draw down the Primordial Light. King David draws down the Primordial Light—through The Tikkun HaKlali we draw down the Primordial Light. When we say The Tikkun HaKlali by Rabbi Shimon, we draw down the first light: “And there was light”—the Hidden Light (Genesis 1:3).

“Rebbe Nachman” is exactly the gematria of the Hidden Light, because Hashem brought the light of Creation—the Hidden Light—down into a body. Therefore, when you reach Rebbe Nachman, everything is revealed. If a person truly knows from Rebbe Nachman, he will learn Torah 24 hours a day. He will no longer be able to leave the holy Torah. The whole point is that a person should not be connected to anything else.

The moment a person knows from Rebbe Nachman, it’s already impossible to sleep and eat—he doesn’t need to eat and he doesn’t need to sleep. Rebbe Nachman never ate. About Moshe Rabbeinu it says, “And Moshe consented to dwell” (Exodus 2:21). What does “consented” mean? Moshe never ate in his life. So how did Moshe suddenly… not eat for 40 days when he went up to Mount Sinai? Where did he get used to that? Where did he learn it from?

Only after 120 days of fasting did Moshe reveal the Thirteen Attributes of Mercy and bring down the second Tablets. Eliyahu HaNavi also wanted to do like Moshe. It is written explicitly in Yad HaMelech that Eliyahu HaNavi said: If Moshe fasted and brought down the Hidden Light, then I too will bring it down. I’m going now to fast for 40 days…

Fine—he goes to fast for 40 days; he won’t eat and he won’t drink. But the angel told him: Eat, eat—you are not Moshe Rabbeinu. You could fast a billion days, not only 40. You could fast a million days—you will never be Moshe Rabbeinu. It won’t help you, because the Primordial Light is the Hidden Light.

If a person had not eaten from the Tree of Knowledge, he would have had the Primordial Light. From there comes David; David receives the Primordial Light. This is Rebbe Nachman, who is always in pure ratzon, face to face: “He will be exalted and lifted up, and very, very high” (Isaiah 52:13). This is Moshiach, who every day sees anew the light of the Infinite.