Come to Uman

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The opening of this shiur, in BRI Breslov: The Breslov Research Institute’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

Shalom Aleichem. This is a special insert, this video. It’s about going to Uman on Rosh Hashanah. Rebbe Nachman said, “Come to me. There are rectifications, tikkunim, that I can do on Rosh Hashanah, that even I can’t do during the year.” Why would that be? Well, we all know that Rosh Hashanah/Yom Kippur - they’re called the Days of Awe. More correctly, they should be called the Days of Judgment because we are judged - what’s going to happen to us during the year. And what we did last year is symbolic of what’s going to happen this year. So we’ve got to nip the judgment in the bud before it becomes an actual judgment. Rebbe Nachman is the best lawyer for us to be present with, for him to represent us for Rosh Hashanah. So, the idea is that Rebbe Nachman called for people to come. There’s a small lesson in Likutey Moharan, lesson 166 in the first part. It says that when the tzaddik has his talmidim, he has that much more power. So the more people that come to Uman, we empower Rebbe Nachman to fight harder on behalf of the Jewish people. Now, we went through a rough year - very rough year. Prior to Rosh Hashanah, Netanyahu said we should not go to Uman Rosh Hashanah because HaShem didn’t always

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1. 0:00Shalom Aleichem. This is a special insert, this video. It’s about going to Uman on Rosh…
2. 0:33of Awe. More correctly, they should be called the Days of Judgment because we are judged…
3. 1:04judgment. Rebbe Nachman is the best lawyer for us to be present with, for him to…
4. 1:39has that much more power. So the more people that come to Uman, we empower Rebbe…
5. 2:13watch over us in those places. May HaShem spare us from this atheism. Yeah, we’ve had…
6. 3:30from the time of the Baal Shem Tov HaKadosh and even earlier, people used to flock…
7. 4:11There was COVID a few years ago - stopped a lot of people from traveling. Right…
8. 4:42Now we can’t fly directly into Ukraine. We have to fly into Moldova, Romania, Poland, Hungary.…
9. 5:18money. Nothing is easy, but then the reason for having an obstacle every time we do…
10. 5:54have Rebbe Nachman as our advocate. We’ll have Rebbe Nachman battling for us before the heavenly…

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