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Simple Sincerity

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BRI Breslov: The Breslov Research Institute

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there was a story of a breast liver his name was of nahum shuster nahum strikes he was a shoemaker a very very simple man who lived in pre-world war one poland and he had found out about the breslif movement because at that time in the early nineteen hundreds breast lift began to spread like wildfire in poland due to the high influence of a few young men such as ravitzhak breiter river iron these were special people very special people and um it passed from person to person and this rav nachum schuster was very influenced even though he was very simple-minded he didn't even know how to learn basic torah text like a mishnah homash was very hard for him even basics he was a very simple thing he worked as for his living it was a simple shoemaker he though found out about this thing of traveling to be by rabin ahmad's grave across the border in the ukraine in the city of uman for rosh hashanah so he made the trip with the group leaving from poland by train crossing the border again this is before world war one when the borders were still open and while in uma and for shanna he heard about the importance and the greatness of talking to hashem at midnight so when he came back home and obviously people are very busy with the high holidays of yom kippur coming up in sukkot etc but he immediately got involved in this devotion he would get up every night at midnight and go to the local beit midrash and he would sit in the women's section of the shoal of the baby josh and he would start reciting what's called tikkun khatsut the midnight lament he had no idea what he was saying but he was told that you have to cry

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  6. 3:46to crowd with the temple only great people do that as we've seen only great sadiq…
  7. 4:16and it repeated itself they know that another day would come that they stayed up till…
  8. 4:48what are you doing what are you doing getting up at midnight and crying over the…
  9. 5:50lightning bolt wait a minute what is he telling us we don't need the temple wait…
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