Nachman of Breslov

“ And the more the intellect grows, the more time is diminished. Like in a dream, when the intellect then is lifted away, and only the power of imagination remains, then in a quarter hour one can spend a whole seventy years. As it appears in a dream, that many many times pass and go by in a very small time, and afterwards when he awakes from sleep and the intellect returns to him, then he sees with the intellect that all the time and years that passed in the dream were only a very little time. ”

“ But without the aspect of prophecy the imagination cannot be clear and repaired, and then the imagination mixes and confuses the man with false faiths. And this is like the filth of the snake, for mixing and confusion of the imagination, which mixes and confuses with false faiths, this is like the filth of the snake, for all the seers and magicians, they are all via the power of the imagination that is not clarified and repaired, which mixes and confuses them with false faiths of folly and falsehood which is the filth of the snake. ”

“ Master of the World, Primal Cause and Driver of everything, You are above and transcendent above everything and there is nothing higher than You, for thought cannot have any grasp of You whatsoever. And for You, silence is a more of a praise and loftier than any blessing or worship. ”

“ That the essence of his holy intent in each Torah that he revealed, and in each utterance that went from his holy mouth, it was only in order to bring merit to Yisrael, bringing them to straight deeds. To hint to them from afar and from close, to show them advices and strategies deep and wondrous. To draw close to Hashem Yithbarakh from all place he is. As the looker will see with his eyes if he will earnestly look in truth. ”

“ For if even here you cannot bear the sound and must all wail — when you will come there you will surely be unable to stand it at all! And by day one cannot stand the joy there, for by day the birds gather together by each of them separately, that is, to him and to her, and console them and make them happy with extremely great joys, and they tell them words of consolation: "You will still find each other," making them very happy, so much so that by day it is impossible to bear the joy there. And the sound of the birds making them happy is not heard from afar, but only when one arrives there. ”

“ Now, on the sea was a murderer, and the murderer heard that there exists such a beauty on the earth. He wanted to abduct her even though he did not need her since he was a eunuch; he only wanted to grab her in order to sell her to some king; he'll get a great deal of money for her. So the murderer began to busy himself with the thing. And a murderer is a reckless person, so he abandoned himself: if he accomplishes, he accomplishes, and if not, what will he forfeit here? For he is after all a reckless person, as the way of a murderer is. ”

“ Therefore the Heart cannot go to the Spring; it only stands facing the Spring, longing and screaming without cease to be able to come to it, as mentioned.
And the Spring is completely timeless, for the Spring is not within time at all (in other words the Spring has no time at all, that is, because it is completely above worldly time) . So how can the Spring exist in the world? (For in the world nothing can exist without a time.) But all the Spring's time is simply the Heart giving the Spring a day as a gift. ”

“ Like one who goes into a celebration -— then due to the greatness of the celebration and joy he reverses all his worries and sadness and melancholy to happiness. And an understanding mind can easily find in each pain and affliction and worry some expanse through which he can turn all the melancholy to happiness -— and this is the root of perfecting happiness! ”

“ For many are the people who desire this book, that in such a compact volume includes all the traits as we as many other matters, and much advice to reach straight paths in serving the Creator. There is nothing in the world that you are deficient in, that this book does not address, as the reader will see with his own eyes. It is all founded on mountains of holiness, verses from the Bible, Prophets, and Scriptures, and the words of our Sages, may their memory be for blessing, in the Talmud, the Midrashim, the Zoharand the other holy books. ”

“ And behold, when one gives the sick person into the hands of the doctor, behold he is like one who gives him to an actual murderer. For his treatments will certainly harm him more than a murderer's blow, and why would one want to kill the sick person with one's hands? ”

“ All will be satiated and delight from his goodness; their souls shall be satisfied as with grease and fat, and with shouting lips their mouths shall praise. And they are more who are with us than those who argue against the truth, speaking arrogantly against the Tzadik in pride and disdain, who have fabricated from their hearts things that were not on his mind; but we need not prolong and talk about this, for it is a thing of Hashem's concern. ”

“ We must pray and plead a great deal with Hashem Yitbarakh to make us worthy of true lowliness and humility. We really have no conception what is true humility and lowliness, because being despised and worthless is certainly not the purpose; what people call a Shlemazelnik. For humility is the essence of the life that is in every single limb, and it's the bliss of the Coming World, and it's certainly not the aim of the Coming World to be despised and worthless etc., God forbid. ”

“ My opinion is that it clearly must be that there is no king whatsoever in the world. That the entire world is mistaken in this foolishness; that they think there is a king. See! Understand — how can it be possible that the entire world should give itself over to depend on one man, that he should be the king? There is certainly no king in the world at all."
The clever messenger replied, "Haven't I brought you a letter from the king?" The original khakham asked him, "Did you yourself receive the letter from the king's hand directly?" ”

“ By day, Adonai commands His kindness, and at night, His song is with me, a prayer to the God [who guards] my life. 10. I will say to God, my Rock, "Why have You forgotten me? Why should I walk in gloom under the oppression of the enemy?" 11. With murder in my bones, my oppressors have reproached me by saying to me all day long, "Where is your God?" 12. Why are you downcast, my soul, and why do you moan over me? Hope to Elohim, for I will yet thank Him for the salvations of my countenance and my God. ”

“ And if we would have indeed known, and had it not been hidden from our eyes, that many had arisen against him — nevertheless the truth is witness for itself, and we are obligated to do his will, and Hashem will do what is good; the one who hears will hear and who refrains will refrain. And also because, praise God, until now His mercies have helped us, for his holy compendiums have spread out within the Holy People, in the community and the assembly and Yisrael, and his words have been joy and happiness to them, and have been sweet as honey in their mouths. ”

“ Because previously I had blessed you with this; today I give you my good life in a full gift, derashah geshenk. You think that I am deaf. I am not deaf at all, except that the whole world does not matter to me whatever so that I should hear their lacking. For, each and every voice in the world is only about needs, since everybody screams about his deficit, that is, what he hasn't got; and even all the world's celebrations are all exclusively about deficits, as someone rejoices over what he didn't have whereas now he has what he didn't have. ”

“ And completion of the knowledge mentioned above is in the aspect of the lung, for the main source of the knowledge and the brains is via the oiliness of the body. For the intellect ignites like a candle via the oiliness of the body, and the lung raises up oiliness of the body to the brain via the breathing of the lung. Also via the breathing all the oiliness of the body is sustained, that through this is the main sustenance of the intellect. ”

“ Don't let your Chokhmah exceed your deeds. Because the main way to make the heart strong, so that it should follow the truth - Hashem Yitbarakh and His holy Torah - is none other than good works. But anyone whose Sekhel, intelligent designs, are more than his good deeds, hasn't the power in his heart to properly make his Sekhel whole in sanctity. Then his Sekhel will make him err more. This is why you need to stay clear of excess Chokhmot of this world's nonsense Chokhmot. Most of all stay clear of philosophy. ”

“ Therefore the root of faith depends on truth: if a man wants to honesty look at the very truth – he will discern automatically that he needs to believe the holy faith in Hashem Yitbarakh and the True Tzaddikim and His Holy Torah, even though it's impossible to understand with his physical mind. For by gazing at the truth honestly he will discern from afar that the truth is just so; only, it's impossible to understand intellectually so one must simply strengthen himself in complete faith. ”

“ Who is a great god as Elohim? 15. You are the God Who works wonders; You made known Your might among the peoples. 16. You redeemed Your people with Your arm, the sons of Yaacov and Yosef, Selah. 17. The waters saw You, Elohim, the waters perceived You, and they trembled, the deeps even quaked. ”

“ It is written in their chronicles how there had been a great Storm Wind upon the world, changing sea to dry land and dry land to sea, and wilderness to settled area and settled area to wilderness, mixing up the entire world. And after the noise and upheaval, the entire world having become so mixed up, the world's people decided to make a king for themselves. ”

“ And the praise of the splendor of greatness of these stories ought not be prolonged, because they are exalted above our knowledge, and whoever additionally speaks in praise of their greatness and depth, detracts; we have only spoken in order to somewhat alert the heart of those of our faith in order that they not forget their wonder which he showed them from afar, like one who shows with a pointer how far these things reach, via a few hints which he revealed to our eyes after telling each and every story. ”

“ For all our days have passed away in Your anger; we have consumed our years as a fleeting thought. 10. The days of our years because of them are seventy years, and if with strength, eighty years; but their proudest success is toil and pain, for it is quickly shorn off and we fly away. ”

“ Falsehood is evil and corrupt. A person who is false tosses Hashem Yitbarakh's protective care from himself. But a person who is truthful will enjoy God's care and protection in all ways (Ibid.) .
25. There is only one truth but a whole multitude of lies. You can only say one truth about any given object — just what it is and nothing else. Silver is silver and only silver. Gold is gold and only gold. But lies can be multiplied without end. ”

“ But much more did we see this with this awesome story of the Seven Beggars which is wonderful awesome high revelations without bound. As an understanding person will understand by himself if he puts his heart to them with an eye of truth to understand and perceive holy wonders of the boastings of each one mentioned there each day, and in particular the greatness of the holiness of the boasting of the seven beggars themselves who boast each day: that the blind one boasted that he doesn’t look at the world at all, therefore he is actually blind to this world ”

“ A prayer by Moshe, the man of Elohim. Adonai, a shelter are You; You have been for us, in generation after generation. 2. Before the mountains were born, and when the earth and inhabited land were yet non-existent, and from everlasting to everlasting, You are the God. 3. You bring a man down to a crushing point, and You say, "Return, O sons of men." 4. For if a man lived a thousand years, they would be in Your eyes like a bygone yesterday, for they will but pass away, and be like a watch in the night. ”

“ Words to revive all souls, from the smallest to the greatest, from the soul at the top of all levels to that at the very bottom. No holy word of advice is hidden from you that you will not find in this book. ”

“ For each person will attain according to his devotions, effort and toil that he toiled, strove and endured bitterness in this world for the sake of Hashem Yitbarakh. Even great Tzaddikim when they arrive in the Coming World at the perceptions attained in this world by a greater Tzaddik - they will be awesome matters for him, and they will be blaze and glow from them whilst for this Tzaddik that's greater than them it will be mere simple thing, for he attained these perceptions even in this world, so that which he attains in the Coming World - will be utterly huge. ”

“ An intelligent man will understand them on his own, because virtually all of them arouse and pull the heart very much to Hashem Yitbarakh, to return to Hashem Yitbarakh in truth for truth's sake, to delve only in Torah and devotions constantly, and to turn his face away from vanities of the world completely, as one who sees will see with the eyes of his intellect if he gazes into them in truth. ”