Many people apparently struggle to understand why a man would leave his home, his family (if he has one…) and go to Uman for Rosh Hashana.

In the old days, they used to spread rumours that the only reason ‘people went to Uman’ was to party, and do a bunch of terrible aveirot (as if, it’s impossible to do terrible aveirot in places like NYC or Tel Aviv….)

But then, after Covid, and the Ukrainian War, and the Israel War, where going to Uman costs a fortune, and people are stuck travelling for whole days at a time, stuck on coaches and planes in the middle of nowhere, all that ‘people go to party’ stuff got exposed as an obvious lie.

So then, the discourse on why someone would go to Uman, if you can really call it that, fell to these low levels, courtesy of the Yeshiva World News propaganda site, HERE:

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(BTW, in the PS I’ll put an example of a real comment from a real Jewish neshama, at the end of this thread, above.)

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Let’s be charitable, and say that none of these yukky comments were written by real people.

Let’s say, they were written by AI-programmed demonic bots, or, they were written by spooks working for the Evils, and trying to ‘influence’ frum Jews via the comments section of the YWN site.

Neither of those scenarios would be totally out there.

But the point is, regular people, good Jews, get very ‘influenced’ by these demonic bots, or even more demonic spooks, into thinking stuff that is just plain bad and evil.

And it’s interesting, how Breslov, Uman, Meron, and the Rav are the spiritual ‘rods’ that attract so much demonic attention on these propaganda sites.

So, let’s figure out a bit more what’s going on, with Uman.

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In a nutshell: when you go to Uman, especially on Rosh Hashana, you are embarking on a program of having your soul ‘fixed’, in whichever way that is required.

Every single person in the world has bad middot, even the so-called ‘tzaddikim’ and ‘tzaddekesses’ who are not Breslov and live in America.

When you have to pay a ton of money to spend a chag in a room with a bunch of strangers, having travelled days and days to get there, with all the difficulty and suffering that entails, a lot of these bad middot will start to come out of the woodwork.

You’ll be the ‘Mr Angry’, the ‘Mr Despairing’, the ‘Mr Anxious’ – whatever it is – that you are at home, too, except now, you are not surrounded by a bunch of family members who have been trained to ignore or ‘work around’ your bad middot.

Which means: now, you have to start to deal with them, and their impact, yourself.

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Let’s give a couple of practical examples, so you see how this works out in practise.

Let’s say, you get stuck at the Polish border for 11 hours, in a massive queue, worrying if you are going to make your flight back home.

This is a wonderful exercise in ‘working on your emuna and patience’, for those people who approach their lives like this.

For the people who don’t – they’ll get anxious, angry, frustrated, obnoxious, literally feel like they want to jump out of their skins from being unable to ‘get things to move’ they way they want to, and at some point, if they are lucky, even they will start to understand that they are not the ones in control here.

God is in control, not us.

And even if a person only grasps that idea for the tiniest split-second – the impact on their soul and their life will be tremendous.

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Let’s give another example.

Let’s say, you have issues having conversations with people, but now, because you are spending a week with a bunch of strangers away from home, and you are feeling a little lonely and lost, you have no choice, except to try and participate in a conversation with someone.

After all, you are sharing a room with six guys, eight guys, ten guys, 12 guys…. And at least one of them will be the talkative type.

Rabbenu is going to fix it, that you are going to be forced out of your comfort zone, and forced into a space where you have to finally deal with yourself, on some level, and at least some of the bad middot that are holding you back in life, and preventing you from being the person God really designed you to be in the world.

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Of course, all this is totally lost on the AI bots and demonic spooks who write most of the comments on propaganda sites like YWN.

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Something else:

Everyone has a certain amount of suffering they have to do in life, to pay down the sins we are all racking up, every second, of every hour, of every day.

40 hours spent on the road returning home from Uman post-Rosh Hashana takes care of a HUGE amount of that annual allotment of suffering.

Sure, it’s no fun to be stuck on a coach for two days, bored, stiff, hungry, tired, and unable to have a wee when you want to.

Sure.

But in terms of the ‘big scheme of things’, most people would pick two days like that, than terrible suffering in another form, like serious illnesses, God forbid, or being kicked out of their homes, God forbid, or seeing their marriages and families break up, God forbid.

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A few years ago, maybe it got too easy to get to Uman, and too ‘comfortable’.

So maybe, just maybe, Rabbenu arranged the present circumstances, so everyone who comes is guaranteed to have some sort of suffering and tikkun, just in the process of getting there and back.

Who knows?

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One more thing I wanted to say, comes down to how people who are not Breslov judge people who go to Uman for Rosh Hashana.

Again, we know it’s AI bots and demonic spooks writing these evil comments, but let’s say some authentic real Jew gets influenced by them, and starts thinking to themselves, like yeah, these people are part of cult… They are ‘worshipping’ dead people… They aren’t ‘real Jews’…

Or whatever.

Let’s be very, very clear, that the Baal Shem Tov taught that the whole world is a mirror.

And that when a person is going to be judged in shemayim, they put a situation before them that mirrors their own exactly, and then wait to see how that person is going to ‘judge’ it.

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Let’s go back to the AI bot comments, to see how that would work in practise:

Let’s say, you are a ‘proud Jew’ in America, demanding your menorah gets lit next to the xmas tree every winter festival time, proudly lobbying presidents, senators, congressmen and mayors for [fill in the blank], proudly appearing for photo ops in the White House, or wherever, proudly dressed in your black yarmulke and / or fedora.

A ‘proud Jew’ like that in the USA needs to be really careful, about making statements about Breslovers from Israel like this:

You got what was coming to you. When did yidden forget to keep a low profile in golus?

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Tov.

BH, hopefully we cleared up more of the spiritual mystery around why people go to Uman for Rosh Hashana, and how the whole spiritual tikkunim process works, by Rabbenu.

The last thing I will say is that at this point in my life, I have seen so many of the people who were were ‘anti’ Breslov, ‘anti’ Uman, etc, hit some very, very difficult situations in their own lives, and particularly, with their families.

I used to have a good friend who criticised my husband for ‘leaving his family’ at chag time. She got divorced, in a spectacularly bad way, a few years back, and is not even on speaking terms with her ex…

Who knows, if she’d sent him off to Uman for Rosh Hashana, maybe, just maybe, something could have been salvaged from that whole hot mess.

But, b’kitzur, and especially at this time of year, however we are judging others, we are really just judging ourselves.

And if you are not an AI bot or demonic spook, that should really give a person pause for thought, about how much they start slagging other people off for going to Uman for Rosh Hashana.

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PS: This is a great example of a how a real Jew would comment on a post on propaganda sites like YWN:

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PPS: While I was looking for the link to the anti-Uman ‘propaganda’ above, I came across this:

On 11 January 2020, the Israeli publication Yeshiva World News posted a supposed news report about a shocking anti-Semitic attack in Uman. There was no pogrom, yet within hours ‘the story’ had been repeated as though it were established fact by other Israeli, Ukrainian and Russian media

Read the whole breakdown here: https://archive.khpg.org/en/1579039706

The YWN does this every. single. year.

In some form or other, anything to get Jews to steer clear of Uman, Rosh Hashana.

Now, why would a site that’s working for the State of Israel be interested in doing something like that? What do they know about the real spiritual power of ‘Uman, Rosh Hashana’ that perhaps is lost on the rest of us?

Answers on a postcard…