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“… he [Jacob Frank] had all of his followers convert to the Other Religion [Christianity]… The Baal Shem Tov, definitely had he been able to elevate these sparks, he would have done so. His great grandson, Rebbe Nachman, also tried to elevate the sparks of the Other Religion [Christianity]. That’s why many of the great sages, the great rebbes of his time were so against Rebbe Nachman and Breslov, because they said he’s doing customs and taking things from the Other Religion, in order to elevate the founder of the Other Religion [Yeshua]. So in a certain way, Rebbe Nachman was actually more than the Baal Shem Tov, his great grandfather, in attempting to bring people of the past back and to rectify them.”
-Rabbi Yitzchak Ginsburgh, “The Needle in the Nose: Evil Kings and Messianic Sparks“
“The Christian theology subsequently built on this foundation is foreign and of no concern to us, but the foundation itself is ours and nothing but sheer blindness and utter folly could make us reject the finest and best in us.”
-Ferdynand Zweig, Holocaust survivor
Rabbi Yitchok Breiter ztz”l was an important Breslov Chasidic rabbi who was murdered in Treblinka. “In “Seven Pillars of Faith” R. Yitzchok Breiter clarifies the meaning of seven basic ideas or themes which are at the root of all of Rebbe Nachman’s teachings” (Breslov.org).
“THE SEVENTH PILLAR: THE TZADDIK
-Rabbi Yitzchok Breiter, Seven Pillars of Faith
The seventh fundamental [of Breslov] is attachment to the True Tzaddik:
1. The soul of Messiah preceded the world [Pesachim 54a]. It is the root of the souls of Israel, and the entire Creation, [Shmot Rabbah 40:3, All souls were included in the soul of Adam. ADaM is the acronym for: Adam, David and Messiah.] for “The entire universe was only created to attend him” (Berakhot 6b) and “The Tzaddik [righteous one] is the foundation of the world” (Proverbs 10:25).”
“Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day, and he saw it and was glad.”
Then those Judeans said to him, “You are not yet fifty years old, and have you seen Abraham?”
Yeshua said to them, “Most assuredly, I say to you, I was before Abraham.””
-Yochanan 8:56-58
“But one of the elders said to me, “Do not weep. Behold, the Lion of the Tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has prevailed to open the scroll and to loose its seven seals.”
-Revelation 5:5
“I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in me, and I in him, bears much fruit; for without me you can do nothing.”
-Yochanan 15:5
“2. The Holy One, blessed-be-He, took counsel with this soul in the creation of His Universe, as it is written: “With whom did He take counsel, who gave Him understanding and guided Him in the way of judgment?” (Isaiah 40:14) [Bereshit Rabbah 8:6].”
-Rabbi Yitzchok Breiter, Seventh Pillar, 2
“He is the image of the invisible G-d, the firstborn over all creation. For by him all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things were created through him and for him. And he is before all things, and in him all things hold together.”
-Colossians 1:15-17
3. He gave God a guarantee that he will repair the Universe [Tikkuney Zohar 69, 111b; Zohar, III:216a].
-Rabbi Yitzchok Breiter, Seventh Pillar, 3
“For G-d did not send His son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through him might be saved.”
-Yochanan 3:17
“Now all things are of G-d, who has reconciled us to himself through Yeshua the Messiah, and has given us the ministry of reconciliation”
-2 Corinthians 5:18
“For it pleased the Father that in him all the fullness should dwell, and by him to reconcile all things to Himself, by him, whether things on earth or things in heaven”
-Colossians 1:19-20
-Rabbi Yitzchok Breiter, Seventh Pillar, 4
“4. All the acts of devotion of all the world, all the incarnations, refinements and tests, and the revelation of faith – all are through him, as it is written: “He is faithful in all My house” (Numbers 12:7).[Cf. Tikkuney Zohar 69, 112a.]”
“who through him believe in G-d, who raised him from the dead and gave him glory, so that your faith and hope are in G-d.”
-1 Peter 1:21
-Rabbi Yitzchok Breiter, Seventh Pillar, 5
“5. To him God has given sovereignty and kingship: “The Tzaddik rules in the fear of God” (II Samuel 23:3).”
“Therefore let all the House of Israel know assuredly that G-d has made this Yeshua, whom you crucified, both Ruler and Messiah.”
-Acts 2:36
“For “He has put all things under his feet” (Psalm 8:6). But when He says “all things are put under him,” it is evident that He who put all things under him is excepted. Now when all things are made subject to him, then the son himself will also be subject to Him who put all things under him, that G-d may be all in all.”
-1 Corinthians 15:27-28
-Rabbi Yitzchok Breiter, Seventh Pillar, 6
“6. He is the Heavenly court. [See Sefer HaMiddot, Tzaddik A:54.]”
“WE WILL MAKE MAN — The meekness of the Holy One, blessed be He, they (the Rabbis) learned from here: because the man is in the likeness of the angels and they might envy him, therefore He took counsel with them (Midrash Tanchuma, Shemot 18 and see Genesis Rabbah 8). And when He judges the kings He likewise consults His heavenly court, for thus we find in the case of Ahab to whom Micha said, (1 Kings 22:19) “I saw the Lord sitting on His throne, and all the host of heaven standing by Him on His right hand and on His left.” Has God, then, a right hand and a left hand? But it means that some stood on the right side to plead in favour of the accused and others stood on the left side to accuse; and similarly we read (Daniel 4:14), “the matter is by the decree of the watchers, and the sentence by the word of the holy ones”, — here, also, He consulted His heavenly court and asked permission of them, saying to them: “There are in the heavens beings after My likeness; if there will not be on earth also beings after My likeness, there will be envy among the beings that I have created” (Sanhedrin 38b).”
-Rashi, Genesis 1:26
“He was in the beginning with G-d. All things were made through him, and without him nothing was made that was made. In him was life, and the life was the light of men.”
-Yochanan 1:2-4
“And Moses stretched forth his rod unto heaven, and the Lord sent thunder and hail (ibid., v. 23). Wherever Scripture says and the Lord it refers to Him and to His heavenly court. And the Lord did unto Sarah as he had spoken (Gen. 21:1), that is, He and His court. And the Lord caused it to rain on Sodom (ibid. 20:24), that is, He and His court. And the Lord sent thunder and hail (Exod. 9:23), that is, He and His court.”
-Midrash Tanchuma, Vaera 16:2
“and has given him authority to execute judgment also, because he is the Son of Man. Do not marvel at this; for the hour is coming in which all who are in the graves will hear his voice and come forth—those who have done good, to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil, to the resurrection of condemnation. I can of myself do nothing. As I hear, I judge; and my judgment is righteous, because I do not seek my own will but the will of the Father who sent me.”
-Yochanan 5:27-30
-Rabbi Yitzchok Breiter, Seventh Pillar, 7
“7. The revelation of God’s hand – God’s control over every detail in the spiritual and material realms – is through him.”
“And he came and proclaimed peace to you who were afar off and to those who were near. For through him we both have access by one spirit to the Father.”
-Ephesians 2:17-18
“8. He reveals prayer, as it is written: “And I am prayer” (Psalms 109:4).”
-Rabbi Yitzchok Breiter, Seventh Pillar, 8
““And when you pray, you shall not be like the hypocrites. For they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the corners of the streets, that they may be seen by men. Assuredly, I say to you, they have their reward. But you, when you pray, go into your room, and when you have shut your door, pray to your Father who is in the secret place; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly. And when you pray, do not use vain repetitions as the heathen do. For they think that they will be heard for their many words. Therefore do not be like them. For your Father knows the things you have need of before you ask Him. In this manner, therefore, pray: Our Father in heaven, Hallowed be Your name. Your kingdom come. Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven…”
-Mattai 6:5-9
“Therefore he is also able to save to the uttermost those who come to G-d through him, since he always lives to make intercession for them.”
-Hebrews 7:25
“And whatever you do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Master Yeshua, giving thanks to G-d, the Father through him.”
-Colossians 3:17
“And in that day you will ask me nothing. Most assuredly, I say to you, whatever you ask the Father in my name He will give you. Until now you have asked nothing in my name. Ask, and you will receive, that your joy may be full.”
-Yochanan 16:23-24
“9. He is the Chariot of the Shechinah. [See Rashi, Genesis 17:22.]”
-Rabbi Yitzchok Breiter, Seventh Pillar, 9
“[GOD WENT UP] FROM ABRAHAM — This is a more fitting expression to use of God, and we learn from it that the righteous are the Chariot of the Omnipresent God (Genesis Rabbah 47:6).”
-Rashi, Genesis 17:22
“that is, that G-d was in Messiah reconciling the world to Himself, not imputing their trespasses to them, and has committed to us the word of reconciliation. Now then, we are ambassadors for Messiah, as though G-d were pleading through us: we implore you on Messiah’s behalf, be reconciled to G-d.”
-2 Corinthians 5:19-20
“10. He is the holiness. [See Bava Batra 75b; Tzaddikim are called kodesh, holy.]”
-Rabbi Yitzchok Breiter, Seventh Pillar, 10
“The G-d of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the G-d of our fathers, glorified His servant Yeshua, whom you delivered up and denied in the presence of Pilate, when he was determined to let him go. But you denied the Holy One and the Just (Tzaddik), and asked for a murderer to be granted to you, and killed the Prince of life, whom G-d raised from the dead, of which we are witnesses. And his name, through faith in his name, has made this man strong, whom you see and know. Yes, the faith which comes through him has given him this perfect soundness in the presence of you all. Yet now, brethren, I know that you did it in ignorance, as did also your rulers. But those things which G-d foretold by the mouth of all His prophets, that the Messiah would suffer, he has thus fulfilled.”
-Acts 3:13-18
-Rabbi Yitzchok Breiter, Seventh Pillar, 11
“11. He is the vitality of the whole universe. [The world at large is considered Malkhut; The Tzaddik is called Yesod. Through Yesod sustenance comes down to the whole world.]”
“yet for us there is one G-d, the Father, of whom are all things, and we for Him; and one master Yeshua the Messiah, through whom are all things, and through whom we live.“
-1 Corinthians 8:6
“In this the love of G-d was manifested toward us, that G-d has sent His only son into the world, that we might live through him.”
-1 Yochanan 4:9
-Rabbi Yitzchok Breiter, Seventh Pillar, 12
“12. Through him all devotions rise up to Heaven. [Only Moses was able to erect the Tabernacle (Exodus 40). Only with the help of Moses, the Tzaddik, were the people’s contributions to the Tarbanacle to any avail.]”
“Coming to him as to a living stone, rejected indeed by men, but chosen by G-d and precious, you also, as living stones, are being built up a spiritual Temple, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to G-d through Yeshua the Messiah.”
-1 Peter 2:4-5
“Therefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Emissary and High Priest of our confession, Messiah Yeshua, who was faithful to Him who appointed him, as Moses also was faithful in all His House. For this one has been counted worthy of more glory than Moses, inasmuch as he who built the house has more honor than the house.”
-Hebrews 3:1-3
-Rabbi Yitzchok Breiter, Seventh Pillar, 13
“13. All arousal to Teshuvah [repentance] is through him. [See Likutey Moharan I, 17; love and fear of God are taught by the Tzaddik.]”
“From that time Yeshua began to proclaim and to say, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.””
-Mattai 4:17
“and that repentance [teshuvah] and remission of sins should be proclaimed in his name to all nations, beginning at Jerusalem.”
-Luke 24:47
“The G-d of our Fathers raised up Yeshua whom you murdered by hanging on a tree. Him G-d has exalted to His right hand to be Prince and Savior, to give repentance [teshuvah] to Israel and forgiveness of sins.”
-Acts 5:30-31
“14. Through our attachment to the True Tzaddik – through the knowledge of all the above and through following the Tzaddik’s guidance, a spark of the light of the holiness of the Tzaddik is drawn into us, each person according to their level. Even if you are very far removed from holiness, closeness to the True Tzaddik will at the very least bring you to realize how far you are from truth and from the path of the just, and how sunk you are in the opposite. You will then long for the truth and pray to come closer to God without falling into despair and depression. You will know that God is calling you and that you are precious in His eyes. The same applies to those on a higher level as well, each one on his own level: the closer they are to the True Tzaddik, the more they draw the holiness of the Tzaddik in upon themselves and walk in his pathway, knowing that everything is in the hand of God and praying constantly that they should come closer. Amen.”
-Rabbi Yitzchok Breiter, Seventh Pillar, 14
“But now in Messiah Yeshua you who once were far off have been brought near…”
-Ephesians 2:13
“Then he [Yeshua] spoke a parable to them, that men always ought to pray and not lose heart“
-Luke 18:1
“If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, you will ask what you desire, and it shall be done for you…. If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commandments and abide in His love.”
-Yochanan 15:7, 10
“15. Parts of the soul of the Tzaddik are to be found in the whole creation, especially in God’s People, and especially in all the true Tzaddikim. [Tikkuney Zohaar 69, 112a]”
-Rabbi Yitzchok Breiter, Seventh Pillar, 15
“and what is the exceeding greatness of His power toward us who believe, according to the working of His mighty power which He worked in Messiah when He raised him from the dead and seated him at His right hand in the heavenly places, far above all principality and power and might and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this age but also in that which is to come. And He put all things under his feet, and gave him to be head over all things to the congregation, which is his body, the fullness of him who fills all in all.”
-Ephesians 1:19-23
“Now you are the body of Messiah, and members individually.”
-1 Corinthians 12:27
“To them G-d willed to make known what are the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Nations: which is Messiah in you, the hope of glory. Him we proclaim, warning every man and teaching every man in all wisdom, that we may present every man perfect in Messiah Yeshua.”
-Colossians 1:27-28
“16. Five times in the history of the world the path of truth has been renewed: through Moses our Teacher, Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai, Rabbi Yitzchak Luria – the ARI, Rabbi Israel the Baal Shem Tov, and “The Flowing Stream, the Source of Wisdom” (Proverbs 18:4) – Rebbe Nachman. From him until Mashiach there will be nothing new. [Chayey Moharan 279.]”
-Rabbi Yitzchok Breiter, Seventh Pillar, 16
“but whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him will never thirst. But the water that I shall give him will become in him a fountain of water springing up into everlasting life.”
-Yochanan 4:14
“But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, it will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all things that I said to you… Nevertheless I tell you the truth. It is to your advantage that I go away; for if I do not go away, the Helper will not come to you; but if I depart, I will send it to you.”
-Yochanan 14:26, 16:7
“On the last day, that great day of the Feast [Hoshana Rabba], Yeshua stood and cried out, saying, “If anyone thirsts, let him come to me and drink. He who believes in me, as the Scripture has said, out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.” But this he spoke concerning the Spirit, whom those believing in him would receive; for the Spirit was not yet given…”
-Yochanan 7:37-39
“He who says he abides in him ought himself also to walk just as he walked. Brethren, I write no new commandment to you, but an old commandment which you have had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word which you heard from the beginning.”
-1 Yochanan 2:6-7
“17. Wherever the concept of Tzaddik is found in Likutey Moharan the reference is to the above Tzaddik.”
-Rabbi Yitzchok Breiter, Seventh Pillar, 17
“He answered and said: “Before the true tzaddik is found in the world, it is possible to draw close to the Blessed One Himself. But after the true tzaddik has already been found in the world, it is impossible to draw close to the Blessed One in truth in any manner whatsoever, except when one merits to draw close to him… one cannot be a Jew in any other way, unless one draws close to him.””
-Chayei Moharan 299
“Yeshua said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.”
-Yochanan 14:6
“18. Prayer and the soul of Mashiach were revealed especially in King David.”
-Rabbi Yitzchok Breiter, Seventh Pillar, 18
“I, Yeshua, have sent my messenger to testify to you these things in the congregations. I am the Root and the Offspring of David, the Bright and Morning Star.”
-Revelation 22:16
“19. A person should not strive to become this Tzaddik or think that “anyone who wants to take this crown can do so” (cf. Berakhot 16b). One who does so is the “false famed leader” discussed in Likutey Moharan. Instead each person must receive from this Tzaddik, who is revealed every few generations. This is the spark of Mashiach, the preparation for the redemption. Everyone must know of this Tzaddik, because anyone who does not know of him in this incarnation will have to be reincarnated again and again until they do know. [The ARI teaches that if a person did not perform a certain mitzvah he has to be reincarnated to perform that mitzvah. (Sha’ar HaMitzvot, Hakdamah). Thus, one who was unwilling to attach himself to the Tzaddik must be reincarnated in order to do so, because only through the Tzaddik can his service of God be elevated. The ARI teaches that all the Jewish souls were connected to and are a part of Adam’s soul, and Adam’s soul is that of the Mashiach (see above 7:2). The soul of Moses comes in each generation to allow those in that generation to attach themselves to him.] This is why we are waiting so intently for the Redemption, when things will be restored as they should be. This was what the Sages were referring to when they said, “Get yourself a teacher and acquire a friend” (Avot 1:6) – i.e. as friends, together you will receive from this Teacher. They said: “Everyone who makes a quotation in the name of the one who said it brings redemption into the world” (Avot 6:6). In other words one should know from whom everything derives and what is the source of the Torah. Through this one brings closer the redemption of the world and the redemption of one’s soul.”
-Rabbi Yitzchok Breiter, Seventh Pillar, 19
“till we all come to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the son of G-d, to a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Messiah; that we should no longer be children, tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in the cunning craftiness of deceitful plotting, but, speaking the truth in love, may grow up in all things into him who is the head—Messiah— from whom the whole body, joined and knit together by what every joint supplies, according to the effective working by which every part does its share, causes growth of the body for the edifying of itself in love.”
-Ephesians 4:13-16
“And so it is written, “The first man Adam became a living being.” The last Adam became a life-giving spirit.”
-1 Corinthians 15:45
“Who is a liar but he who denies that Yeshua is the Messiah? He is anti-Messiah who denies the Father and the son.”
-1 Yochanan 2:22
“The true Tzaddik is the pride and glory and delight of the whole world. He is, as it were, the “Master of the House” over the whole world, and the “Master of the House” over the House of God, which is the Holy Temple. The Tzaddik sends light into the Holy Temple and the whole world — because he is the light and splendor and glory of the world. When the Tzaddik becomes revealed and magnified throughout the world, the Name of God is thereby glorified. The greater the name of the Tzaddik the greater the glory of God. Whoever is truly merged with this name, which is the glory and splendor and true delight of the whole world — whoever draws close to the Tzaddik and is subsumed under his name — through this, his eyes are opened and he can begin to examine himself and see where he stands in the various facets of his character. Then he can return to God and cleanse himself of all his evil characteristics. He will be worthy of perceiving the greatness of the Creator and of looking at the whole world with clear vision, because his eyes and his mind are opened by the true Tzaddik, who sends light to the whole world (67).
On the other hand, when the name of the true Tzaddik becomes concealed and removed from the world and fame and prestige go to a false leader who does not have the Name of God within him at all, then God Himself is diminished and concealed, as it were, because of this. All kinds of occult religions spring up as a result — cults which depend upon the forces of darkness. The world is visited with terrible afflictions and conflagrations, and the very light of our eyes is withdrawn…”
-Likkutei Etzot, Tzadik 107
“20. One should know that there has never been such a unique figure as “The Flowing Stream, the Source of Wisdom” in all the world. For he prepared the weapons with which our Righteous Mashiach will fight in order to put the world in order. May this be God’s will. Amen.”
-Rabbi Yitzchok Breiter, Seventh Pillar, 20
“Now out of his mouth goes a sharp sword, that with it he should strike the nations. And he himself will rule them with a rod of iron. He himself treads the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty G-d.”
-Revelation 19:15
