{"id":344652,"date":"2009-12-31T22:21:07","date_gmt":"2009-12-31T22:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/breslev.com\/%d7%9c%d7%9c%d7%90-%d7%a7%d7%98%d7%92%d7%95%d7%a8%d7%99%d7%94\/rebbe-nachmans-promise\/"},"modified":"2023-06-07T11:37:30","modified_gmt":"2023-06-07T11:37:30","slug":"rebbe-nachmans-promise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/breslev.com\/344652\/","title":{"rendered":"Rebbe Nachman\u2019s Promise"},"content":{"rendered":"

Translated by Rabbi Lazer Brody<\/span><\/p>\n

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In Forest Fields, Part 19<\/b><\/span><\/div>\n
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A person can\u2019t be called a baal teshuva<\/i> unless he does teshuva <\/i>\u00a0every single day, and real teshuva <\/i>\u00a0means an hour of personal prayer that includes the confessing one\u2019s misdeeds, asking Hashem\u2019s forgiveness, and resolving to improve. Personal prayer not only hastens one\u2019s individual redemption, but the overall Geula<\/i>, or full redemption of our people as well. Rebbe Nachman implores us (Likutei Moharan<\/i>, I:79) to avoid being an obstacle that delays the Geula<\/i>. So, when we invest an hour a day to personal prayer, we actually hasten the Geula<\/i>. The more people that speak to Hashem in personal prayer every day, the faster we\u2019ll see the Geula<\/i>. Not only that; the angels that are created from one\u2019s personal prayer implant a desire within other people to seek Hashem.<\/span><\/div>\n
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Eternal promise<\/b><\/span><\/div>\n
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A person once asked me for advice how to be happy. I gave him a one-word answer \u2013 teshuva<\/i>! Do an hour of personal prayer every day, and you\u2019ll be happy. As long as a person fails to do teshuva<\/i> \u2013 to return to Hashem with all his heart \u2013 he can\u2019t be truly happy. The reason is simple; uncorrected transgressions are like lead curtains on the soul. They block Hashem\u2019s light and make a person feel heavy, dark, and therefore worried and depressed. An hour a day of teshuva<\/i> and personal prayer makes the lead curtains disappear, taking a tremendous weight off a person\u2019s heart and soul and enabling his soul to enjoy the exquisite and sublime illumination of Hashem\u2019s Divine light.<\/span><\/div>\n
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There are no shortcuts to an hour of personal prayer every day. One who hasn\u2019t yet tasted the sweetness of an hour of personal prayer doesn\u2019t yet know what real teshuva<\/i> is. True teshuva<\/i> means speaking with Hashem, for the Prophet said (Hoshea 14:3), \u201cTake words with you and return to Hashem.\u201d Rebbe Nachman of Breslev gave those fortunate people who practice daily personal prayer wonderful promises for posterity, as he wrote in a famous letter:<\/span><\/div>\n
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To my close and dear pupil,<\/span><\/div>\n
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I request that you stop for a moment and listen carefully to my words. I am speaking for you eternal benefit. Know that I had much work to do before I brought you close to me. You can understand a bit and feel the miracles that stimulated your coming close to me. And so, one of the conditions that I stipulate with those whom I draw close to me is that they don\u2019t allow others to fool them, and that they don\u2019t fool themselves. You\u2019ve heard frequently and have understood that my main method and advice for attaining one\u2019s complete soul correction and achieving what\u2019s possible to achieve is none other than hitbodedut<\/i>, that a person designate a place for himself where he can speak his heart to Hashem, and ask for all his material and spiritual needs, to confess all his misdeeds whether intentional or accidental, under duress or by free will. He should thank Hashem for all His favors, material and spiritual. I have succeeded in arranging with Hashem that any person who implements this advice with complete simplicity, stands before Hashem for an hour a day of [personal] prayer \u2013 even if at this particular point in time he experiences no spiritual arousal \u2013 even if he can\u2019t say a single word, only that he should force himself to yearn to speak to Hashem, he shall merit everything good! There will be no severe judgment on him from Above, for with this [advice] he shall correct all three parts of his soul \u2013 nefesh<\/i>, ruach<\/i>, and neshama<\/i> and all the [spiritual] worlds that depend on him from the time of Adam the first human until the coming of our Savior. This is solid valid truth, and I guarantee it. Signed, Rebbe Nachman of Breslev<\/span><\/div>\n
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Rebbe Nachman also promised that he arranged with Hashem that whoever does an hour a day of hitbodedut<\/i> will also enjoy longevity until he succeeds in attaining the correction of his soul. Therefore, anyone who wants to enjoy length of days and the promise that he\u2019ll enter the Garden of Eden straight away without having to be cleansed in Purgatory \u2013 as well as the other promises that we mentioned in this chapter \u2013 should do an hour of personal prayer every day with no excuses.<\/span><\/div>\n
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To be continued.<\/i><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Translated by Rabbi Lazer Brody In Forest Fields, Part 19 A person can\u2019t be called a baal teshuva unless he does teshuva \u00a0every single day, and real teshuva \u00a0means an hour of personal prayer that includes the confessing one\u2019s misdeeds, asking Hashem\u2019s forgiveness, and resolving to improve. Personal prayer not only hastens one\u2019s individual redemption, … Continue reading “Rebbe Nachman\u2019s Promise”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62109,"featured_media":1325912,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_joinchat":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[83788],"tags":[20006,16552,47184],"author_post":[14273],"new_serie":[86761],"class_list":["post-344652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hitbodedut-personal-prayer","tag-personal-prayer","tag-teshuva","tag-cheshbon-hanefesh","author_post-rabbi-shalom-arush","new_serie-in-forest-fields"],"acf":{"intro_text":"

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