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0:00 Rebbe, if Rabbi Shimon made all the rectifications, he did not need to pray, he does not need to pray. So why did our Rebbe say... Berachos, page 35b. The Rav knows, we... - No, where am I? I am nothing. So why did our master the Arizal - according to the unique ones of the generations, they are greater - and afterwards there is our Rebbe, peace be upon them - the Baal Shem Tov, our Rebbe - why did they not rectify only through Torah as well?
0:25 Why did they also need to pray? Even though they are of such a high level. - Look, first of all, in the period of Rabbi Shimon it was not... this goes and changes from generation to generation, from period to period. In the time of Rabbi Shimon, the Torah was in danger. The Torah was about to be forgotten from the Jewish people, and then Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai took everything upon himself and gave his soul for it. It is written in Parshas Naso: 'Through this composition of yours' 'they will go out of the exile with mercy.'
0:53 In the merit of your composition, Rabbi Shimon, the Jewish people will go out of the exile with mercy. So you see that Rabbi Shimon took upon himself the whole yoke of the Torah, all this revelation, to reveal it in the world, and he had to reveal it to us. So that is to say, that was the work - it was the call of the hour: the Torah. And in the time of the holy Baal Shem Tov, prayer was in danger, people would no longer pray. They were far from Hashem, they had abandoned the service of prayer - so the Baal Shem Tov came and took it, he became the pillar of prayer.
1:22 So prayer had to be guarded. After that, when Rabbi Nachman came, the grandson, he wants to reveal the conversation between a person and his Maker, because prayer they had guarded, but no one spoke to Hashem anymore as a conversation between himself and his Maker. You need to awaken this - so each time it changed from time to time. - It depends on the time and not on the souls; you are simply doing the work. - Exactly, it depends on the time and not on the souls. After all, it is the same soul, the Baal Shem Tov, Rabbi Nachman, Rabbi Shimon.
1:48 - Yes, yes. It is a soul with garments, each time. You know, the Rebbe Rayatz, when he passed away, so the Rebbe came, the Lubavitcher Rebbe, his soul is in the treasuries on high. He became Rebbe, and he saw that the chassidim were not comfortable that he was Rebbe. They looked at him as something strange, they said, like: 'We had the Rebbe Rayatz, and now someone young comes to us, the son-in-law of the Rebbe Rayatz - we want the Rebbe' - in their heart, like that.
2:17 But there is no choice, the Rebbe Rayatz appointed him. And then he said his maamar, 'Basi LeGani' - the maamar by which he became Rebbe, when he sat on his chair. So he said something very beautiful. He said to them, 'You think this is a different Rebbe? I tell you that it is the same one, in more beautiful garments.' He said to them, 'It is the same one, only the garments are more beautiful. You think I am something else? I am not something else, I am the same one.'
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2:44 Only the garment is different - - The garments are different. That is what one needs to accept. - Exactly. In the same generation, the soul was the same one. only the garments that were on it were different.
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