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Summary: Rabbi Nahman cites Sotah 49b. Read the exact wording below with its English translation, then open the passage in our own reader.
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are increasingly diminished, and none ask and none seek. Upon whom is there to rely? Only upon our Father in Heaven. He also said: In the times of the approach of the Messiah, impudence will increase and high costs will pile up. Although the vine shall bring forth its fruit, wine will nevertheless be expensive. And the monarchy shall turn to heresy, and there will be no one to give reproof about this. The meeting place of the Sages will become a place of promiscuity, and the Galilee shall be destroyed, and the Gavlan will be desolate, and the men of the border shall go round from city to city to seek charity, but they will find no mercy. And the wisdom of scribes will putrefy, and people who fear sin will be held in disgust, and the truth will be absent. The youth will shame the face of elders, elders will stand before minors. Normal family relations will be ruined: A son will disgrace a…
Summary: Rabbi Nahman cites Sanhedrin 105a. Read the exact wording below with its English translation, then open the passage in our own reader.
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who comes from the tribe of Judah. “Moab is My washing pot”; this is referring to Gehazi, who was afflicted with leprosy over matters of washing, as he took money from Naaman, whom he instructed to immerse in the Jordan River. “Over Edom I will cast My shoe”; this is referring to Doeg the Edomite. “Philistia, cry aloud [ hitroa’i ] because of Me”; this is referring to the fact that the ministering angels said before the Holy One, Blessed be He: Master of the Universe, if David, who killed the Philistine and bequeathed the city of Gath to your sons, will come and complain that You gave a share in the World-to-Come to his enemies Doeg and Ahithophel, what will You do concerning him? Will you accept his complaint? God said to the ministering angels: It is upon me to render David and his enemies friends [ re’im ] with each other, and even David will agree. § With regard to the verse: “Why is…
Summary: Rabbi Nahman cites Ezekiel כ:לב. Read the exact wording below with its English translation, then open the passage in our own reader.
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And what you have in mind shall never come to pass—when you say, “We will be like the nations, like the families of the lands, worshiping wood and stone.”
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Summary: Rabbi Nahman cites Genesis ג:יט. Read the exact wording below with its English translation, then open the passage in our own reader.
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By the sweat of your brow Shall you get bread to eat, Until you return to the ground— For from it you were taken. For dust, as in 2.7 ; cf. the second note there. you are, And to dust you shall return.”
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