Summary: Regarding the controversy over Rabbi Nachman of Breslav and the controversy over the righteous in general
It is stated[1] that at the time of the covenant of our holy rabbi Rabbi Nachman of Breslav, his mother’s brother Rabbi Baruch of Mazbeuz ZIA, and the Rabbi of Sadlikov who owned the ‘Efraim camp flag’ were there. After the covenant, the holy brothers came in to bless their sister who gave birth and the newborn, and Marta Faiga asked her brother Rabbi Rabbi Baruch to bless the newborn so that there would be no dispute about it, and Rabbi Rabbi Baruch said that this is not possible, because such a high soul cannot exist in the lowly world without There will be controversy over it.
The continuation of the controversy over Rabbi Nachman
Here we will briefly state the course of the dispute, and this is how it is presented in the life of Moharan (KM5): “When Moharan returned from Eretz Yisrael, he was in the house of the grandfather from Shuli, who later became a great opponent of him, and at that time the grandfather from Shuli would not yet disagree with him, On the contrary, there was great love between them, and the grandfather from Shuli received him with great respect and very, very great affection. And he made a great joy and feast for him, and they both sat at the table all night long. And also the other people who were important to him, they were all turned on the table in honor of our late Rabbi. And there was great joy. And whoever came to his house, the grandfather from Shuli would receive him as a witness and he would say to him testify that I have no way of eating the night meal, and now because of the strength of the love of this dear guest who is dear and very dear to me and I have great entertainment and great pleasure from him coming to me, because of this I eat with him. And I didn’t know what to do because of joy, etc., and even in the morning they talked together with great love and affection.
Because all their days there was great love between them until the time when our late Rabbi left Madavediweka for Zlatifaliyeh, which was about a year and a half after our late Rabbi returned from Eretz Israel to his home. Then informers and slanderers went and spoke in front of him as many informers, until he became a great enemy, and those who were dressed in him were dressed in him, until he caused what he caused by his disputes.
And the famous legal genius Mishti Bika cursed these informers (who caused the controversy about Rabbi Nachman) with vigorous curses, and said with this language that their tongues will multiply up to their navels, etc. And when our late Rabbi heard the division that he was sharing about him and saying false things about him that did not occur to him, our late Rabbi said, “I am very sorry that they told him this.”
The dispute with the grandfather from Shuli
And in the life of Moharan (3. Ki4) it is stated: “In the year 1969, our late Rabbi saw where he saw and obtained where he obtained that he needed to determine his apartment in the community of Zaltiplia, etc., and entered the city without any knowledge from the people of the community, because he did not ask them First of all, he just rented him an apartment there and set his apartment there suddenly. But even so, the people of the community received him with great respect, and he prayed there with them on Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kuphur, and they told him that he would command everything to do as he wished, both in matters of those who had prayers and those who were impaled, and the like, and he sat there in peace during the terrible days.
And so it happened today, one prayed a lock in front of the pillar on Yom Kippur against the will of our late Rabbi, and he fainted in the middle of the prayer and could not open his mouth in any way, until he was forced to leave in great disgrace and stood behind him. And then at the end of Yom Kippur, our late Rebbe said the words of Tschot Naa as usual about the matter of those who pray on that Yom Kippur, and said that it is a coin of our father Avraham, an old man and an old woman on the one hand, and a young man and a virgin on the other (Bava Kama 16:). Because at first the father-in-law of the above-mentioned husband Na’ila prayed, and then the above-mentioned son-in-law, and both prayed for their wives in order to be honored in their eyes, etc. And then he said that he would like to engage in his prayer about the peripination (we were what the masters took the pouring from the hands of the tax collectors) and if you know how the CM stands against something in the sacred and how he overcomes to prevent and confuse and this came and he was about to pray and I rejected him.
And because of this, the above-mentioned man resented our late Rabbi, and he went and traveled to the Kodesh community of Shaflia and slandered our late Rabbi before the grandfather of Shuli, until he made a big controversy about our late Rabbi (which is the controversy over Rabbi Nachman of Breslav). And from then on, the very big controversy arose until almost the entire city divided against our late Rabbi. And the magnitude of the power of the department that was upon him there, and the magnitude of the torment that he had there, it is impossible to imagine and tell, because he was sitting there as if on real thorns. After Sukkot, he went to the aforementioned old man’s place, etc., until he made a big controversy about him there.
And at first he was in love with our late Rabbi, and the grandfather from Shuli was very submissive and submissive to him, but from the above-mentioned time when our late Rabbi entered Zlatipaliye near its border two farsas, and also due to the number of informers as mentioned above, because of this the great controversy arose, Until they lied about him which did not occur to him. And our late Rabbi said that he must sit there from heaven because he is correcting the sin of Jeroboam ben Nebat there.”
And in the life of Moharan (K22) it is stated: “In the year 1962, the summer before he left Mazlatipaliye for Breslav, he was that summer in Berditsov with his father, the long-time Hasidic rabbi, the publisher Moreno Rabbi Simcha, the late Then there was the validity of the dispute of the grandfather of Shuli, and during the dispute, the grandfather of Shuli said that he would bring fees from all the famous righteous people that everyone disagrees with him, and he was the exact opposite.
The great Hasids support our Lord
Because (following the dispute about Rabbi Nachman) letters came from all the famous people to our late Rabbi, and they all held hands with our late Rabbi with great love, and wrote bitterly to the grandfather of Shuli. We were the Chasidic rabbi Levi Yitzchak of Berditsov, and the chasidic rabbi Rabbi Gedaliah of Linitz, and the chasidic rabbi his uncle Rabbi Baruch, the late rabbi, and the chasidic rabbi Rabbi Ze’ev of Charniostra, and the chasidic rabbi Rabbi Avraham Kalisker of Eretz Yisrael, and our father-in-law Rabbi Libush of Valchisk, and our father-in-law Rabbi Avraham Dov Machmelnik, All of them wrote letters with great respect and great love for our late Lord, and they humiliated the grandfather of Shuli very, very much. But the grandfather from Shuli would not listen to them and would hold a free dispute about nothing.
The assembly at the Harak House of Berditschov
And that summer our late Rabbi went to Berditsov, where there was a kibbutz of some elders. Because his mother-in-law, the rabbi of Valtchisk, married his son the late Moharash in Berditsov at that time, and there were recorded some of the older ones, and I know some of them. And the chasidic rabbi taught us R. Ze’ev of Tzarniaustra, and the hagaon rabbi taught us Rabbi Moshe the late Ab Beit Din of the Kadesh community of Krasna, the son of the holy rabbi taught us Rabbi Chaim of the Kodesh community of Krasna, and the chasidic rabbi Rabbi Yitzchak the late of Maka
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