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The Significance of Rav Nachman of Breslov's Yahrtzeit Being on Sukkos

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Rabbi Daniel Glatstein

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This special presentation is offered leilui nishmas Mazal bat Rivka, the mother of my dear friend Reb Michael Behar. Today is her yahrtzeit. We remember her. The family that the neshama should have an aliyah and should be melitza yeshara for their entire mishpacha for simchas and nachas ad bias G-d tzadak. Tonight, the fourth day of Sukkos, Yud Ches Tishrei, is the yahrtzeit of the great tzaddik Reb Nachman of Breslov, Reb Nachman the son of Reb Simcha. Reb Simcha was the son of Reb Nachman of Horodenka. And Reb Nachman's mother, Feiga, was the daughter of Udel, the daughter of the Baal Shem Tov. Reb Nachman passed away at 39 years old. His final words on Yud Ches Tishrei were Ani nitzachti ve'anatzayach. I was victorious and I will be victorious. And this was seen as an allusion to his passing on the ushpizin of Moshe Rabbeinu, Moshe coming from the sfira of netzach. The Samer Rebbe would say that of all the great tzaddikim, the words of Reb Nachman of Breslov were said b'ruach hakodesh because they are specifically talking about our times. One who studies the many, many sefarim that are from Reb Nachman, over 50 sefarim, one notices, one recognizes that he discusses challenges that are specific to our generation and therefore his writing is considered divinely inspired. In fact, Reb Ephraim Zalman Margolies uh testifies that Reb Nachman was um mefursam detaira u'vechasidus. A number of the teachings of Reb Nachman are very relevant specifically to the Yom Tov of Sukkos and therefore his passing at the time of the Yom Tov of

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