Nachman of Breslov

“ So a very, very great encouragement is needed to not be downcast, God forbid, when he sees many, many days and years pass as he exerts great efforts for serving Hashem and still he is so far and still has not at all entered the gates of holiness, for he sees himself as still being full of crudeness, materialism, and big untoward thoughts and confusions. ”

“ Thus there is intellect above intellect, until time is nullified completely.
And therefore Mashiach, who experienced what he experienced from the creation of the world and endured what he endured — after all this, at the end, Hashem Yithbarakh will say to him, "Beni atah, ani hayom yelidh'tikha/You are my son, I this day have begotten you" (Ps. 2) . And the thing is very astounding and wonderous, apparently, but this is all due to great astoundingness of Mashiach's intellect, in accord with the greatness of his level which he will hold by at that time ”

“ And thus higher and higher, so that at an intellect that is even higher up further, even the time that is at an intellect higher than ours is only considered a very little and minor span, there at the further higher intellect. And thus higher and higher, to the extent that there is an intellect so high that there, all the time in its entirety does not count at all, for on account of the great enormity of the intellect, all the time is entirely null and zero completely, just as by us, the seventy years that transpire in a dream are only really a quarter hour, as mentioned. ”

“ Except, an actual seventy years are also considered seventy years at our intellect; but in truth, at a higher intellect above our intellect, what is considered seventy real years by us is also only a quarter-hour or less. For, as we can see, that a person can pass seventy years in a dream, and in truth we know afterwards in our intellect that it is but a quarter hour — just the same way, that which is considered seventy real years by our intellect is, at a higher, loftier intellect, only a quarter hour. ”

“ So one must be quite persistent in the service of Hashem, to not surrender his place, namely any small bit of his devotions he has started, no matter will happen. And remember this well, for you will need it a great deal when you begin a little in the service of Hashem, for one needs very, very great determination, to be strong and courageous, to hold on and maintain his position even if they cause him to fall time and again, God forbid. For there are times when they cause a person to fall from the service of God, as is known. ”

“ For when the rebuker is not fit to rebuke, then not only does his rebuke not help, but he also causes the smell of their souls to stink up who hear his rebuke, for through his rebuke he awakens the bad smell of the bad deeds and the bad characteristics of the people whom he rebukes. Like when some thing is laid down that has a not-good smell, as long as they do not move the thing, they do not sense the bad smell, but when they start to move that thing, then they wake up the bad smell ”

“ Revelation of God’s glory, like the shining forth of the sun, leads to healing and forgiveness of sins, for sins are like darkness. All this is attained by prayer, which gets multiplied by adding people. But when the prayer is not fit, the Tzaddiq may suffer for the people, God forbid. ”

“ And then when one wakes up from sleep, he sees that all these times and the seventy years which passed in his sleep are really a very short period. And this is because afterwards, when awake, then his intellect returns to him, and in the intellect, all these seventy years that transpired in the dream are just a quarter-hour for him. ”

“ And presumably, when it has grown a hundred years, for sure it endures whatever it endures, and then at the end of a hundred years it shoots out a great sound like a cannon, which is called "urmatia". ”

“ When a man enters the service of Hashem, usually he is shown rejection. It seems to him they're rejecting him from Above and are not at all letting him enter the service of Hashem. But in truth all the rejection is just entirely a being brought near. ”

“ And know, there is someone who is already at the entrance of holiness but he retreats on account of those confusions, or then when he is close to the entrance the Sitra Achra and the Accuser overwhelm him very exceedingly, the Merciful One save us, in a very, very great and awesome attack, the Merciful One save us. ”

“ And if you are very, very far from His Blessedness and it seems to you that you are literally always sinning against His Blessedness — even with all this, on the contrary, know that that a such a person who is so corporeal, each and every movement that he detaches himself just a bit from his physicality and and turns to H"Y, is extremely great and precious. ”