The Turkey Prince - Rebbe Nachman's Classic Parable

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Yaakov Klein’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

I'd like to share the following parable that Rabbi Nachman revealed to us. Uh it's called Hamashal Me Ahindic. Uh which which usually generally translate as uh the parable of the turkey prince. And in this in this mashal in this parable, we have a a king and he has a a son and the son sadly falls into a form of shigaon a certain sanity where he believes he's a turkey and he resides under the table pecking at crumbs, rolling around the crumbs and the bones. And this is how he lives naked under the table. And the of the king's servants and and rofim the doctors come and they try to rehabilitate heal this turkey from this insanity and they they do not have any success and they and they even give up hope over over giving help. And this pains the king greatly. Baruch Hashem Nachman's parable does not end there and the wise man a chacham enters the picture and he takes on he verbalizes to to take on the ability to heal this turkey prince. And he strips himself naked as well and situates himself under the table next to the turkey prince and acts like a turkey as well. And the turkey prince notices this newcomer and he asks him, "Who are you? What are you doing over here?"

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1. 0:07I'd like to share the following parable that Rabbi Nachman revealed to us. Uh it's called…
2. 0:37pecking at crumbs, rolling around the crumbs and the bones. And this is how he lives…
3. 1:08Nachman's parable does not end there and the wise man a chacham enters the picture and…
4. 1:38And the chacham responds back to the turkey prince "Who are you?" And the turkey prince…
5. 2:08attendants in the room, one of the assistants, and he's given a pair of uh he's…
6. 2:39puts on the katonet, and so does the khakham, and they go back to their turkey…
7. 3:09pants. And this rationalization resonates with the turkey prince, and they both put on a pair…
8. 3:39that we have to uh resort to the the crumbs and the bones, but we we…
9. 4:10this human food that then we would lose being turkeys, but we we as turkeys could…

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