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Map of 7 Waters: The Merchant and the Pauper, Part 2

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Rabbi Lazer Brody

A continuation of Rebbe Nachman's tale about the exile of the Divine Presence and the Messiah's tribulations.

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[Music] Good evening from the south of Israel. This is Laser Brody with another one of our lessons in Rabbi Nman's tales. Tonight we learn the second part of the merchant in the parer. Tonight's lesson is entitled Map of Seven Waters. As as we always do, we continue uh before we continue, we give a synopsis of what we learned last week so that everybody will be on the same page. So, as we continue tonight with Rabbi Nman's classic tale, what it hints, as we'll see, at the seemingly endless exile of the divine presence, even more painful is the frustrating efforts of the true Messiah, Mashiach, to reveal himself. and he's got to suffer exile and tribulations. This a pointant portrait of the type of dedication that shows our national characteristics that's will really hasten Msiah. Okay. So in part one to review we learned about this great merchant called the burger in Yiddish. This great merchant a man of wealth and he had impeccable character and he was a man of wisdom and courage also. So to the background, he's symbolic of Moses or the Saddic of each generation uh and his wealth that transcends continents. This talks about that sadic's influence in this world and next. So what's his wealth? His wealth is his his holiness and his ability to pray and have his prayer answered that Hashem listens to him and that Shem can be decreed and the sadic can can complete decrees and what in every generation we have a sadic that helps bring us out of exile. This is symbolic of Moses, okay? The this is the merchant. He's symbolic the mer which is his upright character and he's strong and he's brave. He has all these wonderful characteristics and despite

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