Nathan of Breslov

“ I lay me down, and I sleep. For this is like sleep as mentioned above. But actually the man is forbidden to despair himself. And he must overcome and wake up from his sleep through the little good that he finds in himself yet, as mentioned above. ”

“ Therefore the blessing of "resurrecting the dead", מְחַיֵּה הַמֵּתִים, begins "אַתָּה גִבּוֹר לְעוֹלָם אֲדֹנָי", "You are mighty forever Hashem". Because the essence of the resurrection of the dead is the aspect of renewal of the world through prayer in the aspect of justice, as seen above. ”

“ For at night the faith is amongst the qlipot/shells, but in the morning the faith grows big and is awakened. Therefore one must arise from the sleep in quickness, to strengthen himself in faith in order to build and to grow the faith. And this is the idea of "that he should be the one to wake up the dawn," i.e. like gazelle of the dawn, like malkhut/kingship, like faith, and this is like breaking of the lust of money, through which one can raise the souls and drawn down Torah. ”

“ But whoever is pure, when he holds himself to be on a good level, is certainly damaged by this, for he falls to haughtiness, God forbid. As our Sages of blessed memory said: "Even if the whole world tells you you are righteous, be in your eyes as a wicked one. And therefore they said "as a wicked one" and not completely wicked one, God forbid. ”

“ This is the aspect of elevation in holiness. All that comes and enters holiness more and more, and perceives more of the perception of G-dliness, and does not descend - in other words, that one takes care that he does not send down the souls due to the greatness of their holiness - i.e. that one does not come to a general caring for Israel because of the greatness of their holiness and their perception of Hashem Yisbarach - that because of this they are not able to tolerate the lowest of them, and they become angry with them until they are able to lower them, G-d Forbid. ”

“ One can only hold himself in faith. And when he has faith in wholeness, via his eating can be the unification of the Blessed Holy One and His Presence etc. For the selection from the food is through faith. And the main completion and adornment of faith — i.e. to draw specifically the far people etc. And for this one needs to raise up the sparks of speech. And then the speech reverses itself and collects the remaining sparks of holiness from the qlipot/spiritual husks and impediments etc.; and to raise up the sparks of speech, one needs fasting, etc. ”

“ Because, on the contrary, just like all of that great light which the righteous drawn down and increase more and more, so too it is necessary to illuminate the world more and more, to illuminate all creatures of the world in order to bring close those who are far away, to bring light to the small and the very low, to heal all those who are greatly sick, G-d save us. ”

“ It is necessary to disturb sleep from one's eyes and slumber from one's eyelids, to wander, to request and to increase in prayer and supplications in order to merit to find the true tzaddik, who can heal him and who can bring him to the perception of G-dliness, in order to save his soul from the pit. ”

“ It is forbidden for a man to look into them and whoever relies on his intellect and probes into it — on this it is said (Prov. 2) Whoever comes to her does not return. For in such a paradox it is forbidden to rely on one’s intellect, [but rather] only stand on faith, and even those paradoxes that have an answer — sometimes the paths of intellect are stopped up and one does not know how to answer, and apostasy is thrown at him etc. ”

“ For Yosef is the aspect of the tzaddik who engages in drawing close to Hashem Yisbarach, through adding to and bringing out the Light every day. He creates, at every moment, wondrous contractions and vessels so he may be able to draw close all those in the world who want to. ”

“ And ignorance, like hiding of the consciousness, is like darkness. For darkness is drawn from darkening of the consciousness which is hiding the consciousness, which is where the qushiyot come from, mentioned above. For it is brought in the Zohar “When Lilith spread her wings then the gates of the Gan Eden closed, and executioners of judgement go out in the world, and the world is conducted by the Matron i.e. because at nighttime the darkness is strong, [and the darkness] is absence of da`at/knowledge, which is closing of the gates of Gan Eden, which are like the paths of the intellect. ”

“ And this is like the four Parshiyot [that we read before Purim and Pesach] : P. Sheqalim, the idea of charity, for charity is like "kindness to Avraham" who performed charity and kindness with all the world, through which one can find good points, as mentioned above. ”