I have been super-busy this week, so slow posting at the moment.

In the meantime, here’s some more comments from the Rav.

Enjoy!

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A person can cancel every [decree of] Shoah.

Every destruction.

There is nothing that cannot be nullified.

Even the Baal Shem Tov – R’ Nachman Horodenka asked him is it possible to cancel the decree?! [See below]. Is it possible that she will live?

He said, of course it’s possible – just,  you don’t know how. I am not going to teach you how. If you want that – search [how to do it]. Ask. ‘How can I live for longer’?

He [the Baal Shem Tov] died at age 70, he could have lived until 120.

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The Rebbe [Rebbe Nachman, he lived until] 38. The Rebbe for sure [could have lived for longer].

This was Nachman Horodenka, he was the father of Simcha [the father of Rebbe Nachman].

He ran away from the chuppa. He was a Breslover, he was Shuvu Banim – after the chuppa, he said wait a minute, I forgot a suitcase. He went down to get the suitcase – and disappeared. Where did he vanish too?

And he [the Baal Shem Tov], he made the shidduch.

Translated from Shivivei Or, 408.

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This is from the footnotes in Shivivei Or footnotes:

Translation of Siach Sarfei Kodesh Volume I, (that the Rav is basing his above remarks on):

One time, a holy and noble woman (there are those who say that it was the sister of the holy rabbi Yitzhak Drohobyczer[1]) came to our Teacher the Baal Shem Tov, and said to him:

Rabbi, I want that you should make a shidduch between me and one of your company.

And she added, that she wasn’t looking for a wealthy groom, because her parnassa was plentiful, and it was within  her means to support her husband. But her wish was that it should be one of his company.

The Baal Shem Tov, who knew her spiritual level, picked out for her his holy talmid, Rabbi Nachman of Horodenka, who was then a widow. And the shidduch was settled between them.

After this, the Baal Shem Tov asked his student Rabbi Nachman: What will you give me, for making this shidduch? And Rebbe Nachman was silent. The Baal Shem Tov answered and said: When a daughter is born by me, and a son by you – so then we will shidduch them together!

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Part 2:

And it was after the end of the chuppa, Rabbi Nachman Horodenka went on his way, and no-one knew where he went. And his spouse came in tears to the Baal Shem Tov, and complained, and said to him:

What is this?! And this is why I wanted to wed one of your company, just in order that he would disappear?!

The Baal Shem tov answered her:

Behold, Rabbi Nachman is from my talmidim, and he has a regular time that he comes to visit me, and so when that comes close, I will ask him about this.

And she told him, that she would also come then, at that time. And so it was, the day spoken of, and Rabbi Nachman came, and the Baal Shem Tov, about his wedding.

Rabbi Nachman answered him: I saw that as soon as she would give birth to a son, it would be [her time] to leave the world! So then, I had mercy upon her, and I left my house, in order that she should continue to live!

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The Baal Shem Tov informed her of the wonderous words of her great husband, and she immediately responded and said:

If he is such a great man as this, that he knows wonderous things such as these – so then I agree to this, even if death will pass over me!

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FOOTNOTES:

[1] This is the father of R Yechiel Michel of Zlotchov.