{"id":414421,"date":"2013-05-27T22:55:01","date_gmt":"2013-05-27T22:55:01","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\/created-just-for-me\/"},"modified":"2023-09-13T13:26:32","modified_gmt":"2023-09-13T10:26:32","slug":"created-just-for-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/breslev.com\/414421\/","title":{"rendered":"Likutei Moharan: Created Just for Me"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u00a0Translated by Aaron Yoseph<\/span><\/p>\n

The following lesson is Rabbi Kivak’s elaboration of Likutei Moharan I:5<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Rebbe Nachman quotes the Gemara and says:<\/span>
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\n\u201cBecause every person has to say, \u201cThe world was created for me,\u201d (Sanhedrin 37).<\/span><\/em><\/span>
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\nThis as a warning to not give false testimony against someone, since the whole world was created for each person. The Rebbe wants to teach us a fundamental teaching here. He opens with this phrase, adhering us to be careful to remember this. Because there\u00a0 are many thieves going around, who also say that \u201cThe world was created for me,\u201d and they are completely sunken in this world. But they\u2019re making a mistake, because the world they have is a world of confusion and illusions. The true world is a world of joy and life. This is what was \u201ccreated for me.\u201d<\/span>
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\nThis statement contains within it the yolk of all Torah and mitzvot. That we should each be aroused to know, \u201cI am Hashem\u2019s emissary in this world. At every moment there is something asked of me.\u201d This is the meaning of the world being \u201ccreated for me,\u201d \u2013 that I\u2019m profiting here. Crowning Hashem in this world is a tremendous \"\"joy. I have what to do. You say to someone \u2013 \u201cI haven\u2019t got time to talk, I have a meeting with the King!\u201d Oho! We truly have such a thing.<\/span>
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\nIn Nissan the world was created, but who was it created for? For the big snakes and dinosaurs? Who was it created for?<\/span>
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\nAt the exodus from Egypt, Hashem took us out from the bounds of nature and revealed to us Who created everything. He revealed to us that we are His firstborn child Yisroel, and that we possess souls that come from the deepest depths of the spiritual worlds. No-one else can correct anything, because they fell. Only the souls of the children of Avraham, Yitzchak, and Yaakov were capable of going down into Mitzrayim, and into the process of exile, in order to correct and elevate the world. <\/span>
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\nAnd each person has to say that the whole world \u2013 everything that has ever been \u2013 was only created for me. Even if I can\u2019t see, understand, or connect to this. It was created just for me. Only I can fix it. Every single situation. I must assume responsibility, as the Rebbe explains further:<\/span>
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\n\u201cWe find, that when the world is created for me, I need to look<\/strong> and contemplate<\/strong> the correction of the world at all times, and make up whatever the world is lacking, and to pray for them,\u201d<\/span><\/em><\/span>
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\n\u201cWe find\u201d \u2013 this expression implies that we just been through a long explanation, and we\u2019ve come to the conclusion, \u201cwe find\u2026\u201d This is to teach us that this one statement of, \u201cThe world was created for me,\u201d contains everything. When a person arouses himself to this every day in Hitbodedut, it shatters all illusions. There\u2019s nothing else \u2013 \u201cI\u2019m an emissary of Hashem in this world, and I\u2019m in the middle of my job. Even sleeping is part of my mission, and whatever depths I\u2019ve gone down to \u2013 it\u2019s all been created for me \u2013 for me to fix.\u201d <\/span>
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\nSince the world was created for me, I have to be concerned with correcting whatever is wrong in it, and bring it to its perfection. When you\u2019re really serious and want to fix things, the way to do it is through prayer. <\/span>
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\nThe Rebbe adds:<\/span>
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\n\u201cThis matter of prayer takes two forms \u2013 before the decree we pray the normal order of prayers, and there is no need to clothe the prayers.<\/span><\/em><\/span>
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\nBefore the decree praying normally is sufficient \u2013 Shacharit, Mincha, Maariv, the prayers printed in seforim, or a person just praying what is on his heart.<\/span>
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\nBut after the decree there is a need to clothe the prayer,<\/span><\/em><\/span>
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\nBut after the decree \u2013 when there are things to fix and you can\u2019t do it \u2013 then it\u2019s time to clothe your prayers. We don’t know how to do this, but we can connect ourselves to the true tzaddikim who do.<\/span>
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\nso that the angels who stand on the left side won\u2019t understand and will not object,<\/span><\/em><\/span>
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\nThe Rebbe talks here as if he\u2019s speaking to a friend of his, who\u2019s on his level, who understands how to do such things, \u201cso that the angels won\u2019t understand and won\u2019t object.\u201d<\/span>
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\nWe don\u2019t understand what all these things mean \u2013 before the decree, after the decree, clothing prayers. But there remains a small problem. Even if I know what to do \u2013 that before a decree I can pray normally, and after the decree I need to clothe my prayers in a saying, even if I know what that means and how to do it, but the small problem remains \u2013 how am I to know whether it\u2019s before the decree or after?<\/span>
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\nThis is the only Torah where the Rebbe begins by talking about very high levels of serving Hashem. The simple understanding here is that the Rebbe is talking to very great Tzaddikim, and further on in the Torah is where the Rebbe talks to us, and gives us the advice that we need to use. But since we are connected to the Tzaddik, the Rebbe mixed the two together. We are connected to the true Tzaddik who does know how to clothe his prayers. When a person falls and can\u2019t see a way out, the only way to redemption is through the power of the Tzaddikim. When you connect to the Tzaddikim who are working at this, you also get this strength<\/strong>.<\/span>
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\n\u201cBut how can we know whether it\u2019s before the decree or after? By the mitzvot that we perform…\u201d<\/span><\/em><\/span>
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\nThat \u201cwe\u201d perform \u2013 meaning the Tzaddikim who do mitzvot in this way,<\/span>
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\n\u201cWe can know\u201d <\/span><\/em><\/span>
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\n\u201cWe\u201d \u2013 meaning the Tzaddikim,<\/span>
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\n\u201cwhether it\u2019s before the decree or after, and specifically when the mitzvah is performed with such joy, to the extent that the person doesn\u2019t want any reward in Olam Haba for it.\u201d<\/span><\/em><\/span>
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\nThe Tzaddikim so much love fulfilling Hashem\u2019s will, their hearts are so pure. This is the joy of the Tzaddikim and Chassidim who rejoice with Hashem, and don\u2019t think about themselves,<\/span>
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\n\u201cAll he wants is that HaKadosh Baruch Hu should provide him with the opportunity to perform another mitzvah, in the merit of this mitzvah,\u201d<\/span><\/em><\/span>
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\nIf you want to reward me, then help me to get even closer to You. This will be my reward.<\/span>
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\n\u201cAs our Sages taught, (Pirkei Avos, 4) \u201cThe reward of a mitzvah is a mitzvah,\u201d \u2013 because he delights in the mitzvah itself.\u201d<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00a0Translated by Aaron Yoseph The following lesson is Rabbi Kivak’s elaboration of Likutei Moharan I:5 Rebbe Nachman quotes the Gemara and says: \u00a0 \u201cBecause every person has to say, \u201cThe world was created for me,\u201d (Sanhedrin 37). \u00a0 This as a warning to not give false testimony against someone, since the whole world was created … Continue reading “Likutei Moharan: Created Just for Me”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62109,"featured_media":1267061,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_joinchat":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[15138],"tags":[23662,16359,39986,45309,55957,16389],"author_post":[15200],"new_serie":[86796],"class_list":["post-414421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rebbe-nachmans-wisdom","tag-yetzer-hara","tag-prayer","tag-olam-haba","tag-olem-hazeh","tag-tikkun-olam","tag-tzaddik","author_post-rabbi-nissan-dovid-kivak","new_serie-likutei-moharan"],"acf":{"intro_text":"

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