Rabbi Moshe Binenstock shlit"a, one of the great influencers of Breslov and who served for decades the great Breslov rabbis of the previous generation, especially Rabbi Levi Yitzchak Bender zy"a, in an inspiring talk about the reasons for the closure of the path to Uman.

These are his words

The Rebbe said the world will wonder about the love among my people! Why did the Rebbe send us away? Why doesn't the Rebbe allow us to come to him? What happened, has he rejected us?! Is there something not good among us? It's not because of this or that official, although we must make efforts, but that's not the problem. We need to have a day of prayer where all the leaders of Breslov chassidut gather, but they can't sit together. It's related to this group, and it's related to this perspective, and it doesn't fit. If he sits with these people, what will they say about him in Monroe, America? God forbid, he spoke Hebrew!

But, most people who travel to Uman don't know Yiddish, so should they be erased? Do they not exist?! So the Rebbe makes his selection.

I still remember the love that was at the gathering in Jerusalem 50 years ago. Today, in the kloiz, 7000 people can't dance together because there is no love. Instead of confusing people to go to protests and dance with leftists where there are women not dressed modestly, what will surely have an effect is that the leaders talk among themselves and are not ashamed to unite and cry out a great and bitter cry.

This is not a coincidence! It's not enough that a few managed to enter, I saved my soul, but what about all of Anash? We need to see what happened here.

"Who knows if we are not guilty concerning our brother - as the brothers said about Yosef, that we did not see his soul's distress." The full talk transcribed from listening

"Today, Breslov is at the center of the headlines, something that has never happened before. The Rebbe said to make an announcement, today everyone is making announcements about us, the news broadcasts around the world are talking today about Breslov chassidut, in the USA, in Europe, in Paris, in Turkey, in Kyiv, there's no question. Something is happening that hasn't happened in the last 30 years."

"Baruch Hashem, we were pampered from the heavens, Breslov had a renaissance unparalleled in any chassidic courts. In the past, Breslov chassidim could be counted on fingers, Breslov became a giant, expansive chassidut, spreading everywhere. And the crown jewel from which all this burning fire is received is there in impure Ukraine, opposite Beit Peor. There lies the grave of the tzaddik, in the aspect of Moshe, there he made it his seat, that's the place."

"R' Natan writes, it was said only about Moshe Rabbeinu in Pirkei Avot, the place designated for him from the six days of creation. We see in his passing that the Rebbe said: Move me like this, move the bed, move the chair. R' Natan says: I saw that everything was directed towards the upper worlds."

"The entire passing of the Rebbe is astounding, a person travels specifically to be buried in Uman. We haven't heard of such a thing in history, it's one thing for a person to travel to be buried in Eretz Yisrael, but a person travels to be buried in an impure place. R' Levi Yitzchak always said that Uman and Mezhybizh were impure places, that the tzaddikim chose to be buried there. And the Rebbe revealed to us that we would come to Uman."

"There was no such thing in history, our Rebbe took two kosher witnesses, R' Naftali and R' Aharon the rabbi of Breslov, and made a complete promise: Whoever comes to my grave, says the ten chapters of Tehillim, I will grab him by the sidelocks and pull him out of the depths of hell. Not only after death, it already happens in life."

"Those who come to our Rebbe come to cry out to draw close to Hashem, to return in teshuvah, to rectify the covenant. The Rebbe promised and said that what he can do on the eve of Rosh Hashanah he cannot do the entire year."

"We wait for this all year and now suddenly, due to our many sins, the gates of Zion are locked, and who is disturbing? And who ruined it for us? Our poor Jews! We believe that everything is from heaven, Who knows if we are not guilty concerning our brother - as the brothers said about Yosef, that we did not see his soul's distress."

"Who knows if it is not due to a lack of love among friends, that instead of seeing the virtues of our friends, we seek to see their shortcomings. Who knows, maybe the Rebbe said: you don't get along, so don't come to me, who knows? We are not prophets. But, certainly, this is one of the foundations that the Rebbe said: the world should wonder about the love that is among us."

"The Rebbe says in Sefer HaMidot: Strengthen your friend in fear of heaven and he will love you. R' Levi Yitzchak would say in the name of R' Avraham ben R' Nachman that the vessel to receive the light of the Rebbe is only obtained if there is love among our people. The Rebbe said: if you hold on to love, you will draw me upon you."

"So he thinks this way and I think a little differently, he has his Rebbe and I have my Rebbe. His Rebbe said it's forbidden to vote, and there are great rabbis here who said it's permissible, and so regarding wigs. So should you hate me, distance yourself from me? Let's talk about what we can talk about with each other, let's talk about words of love, and strengthening, let's talk about the advice of the Rebbe. That is the redemption."

"Our Rebbe writes in Torah 27, then I will turn all the peoples to a pure language to call upon the name of Hashem, and the Rebbe says this will be the redemption, this should be our language, nothing else. The speech of Anash must be only in the service of Hashem, when we have this vessel the Rebbe is inside. Then we have power, then we have strength."

"After all, the whole concept of the gathering that the secular took, they took it from Breslov chassidim. The virtue of the gathering - to be together. R' Natan in Likutei Halachot brings about what is written in Genesis about Jacob's words to his sons: gather and I will tell you..., R' Levi Yitzchak would explain it beautifully, the sages learn that Jacob wanted to reveal the end and did not say. R' Natan asks: why does Jacob start to say 'gather', and then says: 'assemble and listen'?"

"Gather like a neighbors' meeting without chemistry between them. Jacob saw that it was just a gathering, but each one looks at the other's shortcomings - I will not reveal the end, the Shechinah departed, but I will reveal what will bring the end."

"The prescription for redemption is: assemble, adhere, be one piece, stop seeing the shortcomings of the other. This is what we receive from the Rebbe: to see the good, not to live from the shortcomings of the other."

"Once Breslov chassidim shouted: I am weary of my life, today they shout: I am weary of his life..."