Why We Travel to Uman for Rebbe Nachman’s Rosh Hashanah – Pidyon Nefesh (Clip)

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Why We Travel to Uman for Rebbe Nachman’s Rosh Hashanah – Pidyon Nefesh – Speaker: Rabbi Nasan Maimon. (Based on Shevachey HaRan 403-406.)

• 00:00 PARAGRAPH 403. “My Rosh Hashanah is more important than anything else… no one should be missing” – Rebbe Nachman. “Anyone who is with me for Rosh Hashanah can be very, very happy, as in the description of this day in the time of the Nevi’im: לְכוּ֩ אִכְל֨וּ מַשְׁמַנִּ֜ים וּשְׁת֣וּ מַמְתַּקִּ֗ים וְשִׁלְח֚וּ מָנוֹת֙ לְאֵ֣ין נָכ֣וֹן ל֔וֹ כִּֽי־קָד֥וֹשׁ הַיּ֖וֹם לַֽאֲדֹנֵ֑ינוּ וְאַל־תֵּ֣עָצֵ֔בוּ כִּֽי־חֶדְוַ֥ת יְהֹוָ֖ה הִ֥יא מָֽעֻזְּכֶֽם – ‘Go, eat satisfying foods and drink sweet drinks and send portions to whoever has nothing prepared, for the day is holy to Our Master, and do not be sad, for the joy of HaShem is your strength'” (Nechemia 8:10).
• 01:33 *PARAGRAPH 404. “Whether you eat or don’t eat, whether you sleep or don’t sleep, whether you pray [with kavana] or don’t pray [with kavana] – be with me for Rosh Hashanah” – Rebbe Nachman.
• 03:27 PARAGRAPH 405. “The entire world depends on my Rosh Hashanah” – Rebbe Nachman.
• 04:13 PARAGRAPH 406. Rebbe Nachman’s final Erev Rosh Hashanah in this world.
• 06:26 *Even when his passing seemed imminent because of the severity of his illness, Rebbe Nachman emphasized the importance of being with him on Rosh Hashanah.
• 08:26 Pidyon Nefesh. “On Rosh Hashanah I can accomplish things that can’t be accomplished at any other time” – Rebbe Nachman.
• 09:00 Connecting with the Tzaddik through speech: Nusach of Hiskashrush.
• 09:47 Closing blessings for Rosh Hashanah.

Submit your name to Rabbi Maimon for special prayers in Uman on Erev Rosh Hashanah HERE.

Excerpted from 2023-09-10 – Chayey Moharan. The entire shiur is HERE.

Indexing and Notes by S.Y. Wurtzel.