Shiur from the Rav in Uman, Elul 18th, 5786 (31st August, 2026)

To thank and praise for the enormous miracle, that we managed to chop off the octopus’ tentacles. It has a million tentacles, but the Rebbe chopped off all the tentacles of the octopus, and the Rav entered, after five years that the Rav wasn’t in Uman.

Because they shut the Tziyun HaKodesh in the Rav’s face – all different types of cholkim (opposers), and all different sorts of wicked people.

But now, the Rebbe beat all of them!

It’s impossible to prevent anyone from coming to the Rebbe! [Rebbe Nachman of Breslov]

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“The mountains skipped like rams”.[1]

Simply, the mountains joined together, like it’s written in Rashi, [on Parshat] Chukat, that the mountains joined together, and became a ‘cascade of rivers’. That it became a river of blood, a river of blood, of unfortunate people, free of sin, tzaddik olam.

And everything turned into a river of blood, because they didn’t want [the Jews] to enter Eretz Yisrael,[2] they didn’t want them to enter Eretz Yisrael. It became a river of blood, and then the mountains joined together… There was a miracle.

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“Et ha-nahalim Arnon, eshed ha-nahal…”[3]

Rivers of blood, that all the mountains joined together – this was a greater miracle than the splitting of the sea. At the splitting of the sea, the sea opened up, but remained the same sea.

Here, the mountains moved! They skipped, like a chatan greeting his kallah, like a maidservant greeting her mistress. The mountains jumped! They skipped like rams, they jumped to greet Am Yisrael, when it was entering the Land.

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Now, [they] are coming to the Tziyun, the mountains are joining together, all the mountains are skipping…

Everyone is going to return in teshuva. Now, they will start ‘skipping’, everyone who comes to Uman, they are going to start dancing now.

And those who are in the Aretz, they will start dancing now. “Zachreinu le-chaim, Melech chafetz ba-chaim”.[4]

All the zemirot, it’s possible to start singing now, already… We’ll recite it after ma’ariv, ma’ariv we will pray together, immediately after ma’ariv, we will recite ‘Nishmat’ together, ‘Nishmat’, and also, Hallel HaGadol, without the blessing. We will say Hallel HaGadol, and we will also say the hallel of Rosh Chodesh, without a blessing.

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“Odecha ki anitani v’tihi li l’yeshuah”.[5]

“The stone that was rejected by the builders became the capstone”. “The stone that was rejected by the builders became the capstone”. “Me’et Hashem haytah zot, hi nifla’ah b’eineinu”.[6] It’s wondrous.

It’s impossible to understand this wonder, we need to dance for 24 hours, from this moment. “This came from Hashem; it is wondrous in our eyes.” “Ze hayom asah Hashem, nagila v’nismacha bo.”[7]

This is this day, that will continue until motzae Yom Kippur, dances that don’t stop for a second.

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And it’s forbidden to quarrel with anyone who’s offending you, and also don’t answer back, and also, don’t ‘explain’.

You don’t need to ‘explain’ anything, everything should just be from himself. Today… Like the night, the day already arrived, the day has risen, it’s already dawn, we see the day, we see the light.

And the light pushes away all of the darkness.

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And don’t stand on the benches to see the Rav.

And don’t yell out HaRav! HaRav! And don’t mention any requests – the Rebbe sees everyone, all the requests should go straight to the Rebbe [Rebbe Nachman]. You don’t need to remind the Rav about any request, or about any name, not of a woman giving birth, and not someone who wants a child, and not of a bride, and not of a groom. Don’t mention any names!

Everything is by Rabbenu!

Rabbenu sees everything, and hears everything, and he knows everything. This only awakens judgements, when you bring [names and requests] to the Rav. Don’t exchange the Rav for the Rebbe! Only the Rebbe is the Rebbe, only Rabbenu, he’s doing all the miracles and wonder, that whoever was in Eretz Yisrael, no rocket fell.[8] The rockets fell in Jordan, in every place – except for Eretz Yisrael.

This was all Rabbenu’s doing.

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And stand up, and don’t sing ‘or zaruya’.

Don’t sing emet and emuna, and no other song, either. And not odeh la E-l, and not Adon Olam, and not Yedid Nefesh – no song should be sung, to ‘enlarge’.[9]

Don’t scream out HaRav! HaRav! HaRav! HaRav! HaRav sees everyone, we are coming to the Rebbe, not to the Rav. We need to always now that we are coming to the Rebbe, and that the Rebbe sees everyone.

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And everyone should pray in the Kloiz, with dread and awe.

Look in the siddur, pay attention to the shaliach tzibbur, to the congregation. Whoever can’t pray, so then he should listen to everyone else, he should pray in his heart, with everyone. And don’t yell at the Rav, and don’t stand on chairs in order to see the Rav, and pray like everyone else.

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It’s forbidden [to stand out].

The Shunamite Woman said, I don’t want to separate myself, don’t mention me.

So it’s written there [in the Zohar], in Parshat Beshalach, that if a person stands out on Rosh Hashana, then he awakens judgements upon himself. He already can’t sweeten any harsh judgements.

“B’toch ami anochi yoshevet”.[10]

So, it’s forbidden to mention any names to the Rav.

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And no woman should come [to Uman for Rosh Hashana].

And the women who already arrived, should return home for Rosh Hashana. Because they causing 50,000 men to stumble…[creating] billions of demons and evil spirits.

And even if Sarah Imenu came here, it would be forbidden to see her, and it would be forbidden for her to pray in the Tziyun [on Rosh Hashana], in the kibbutz. She is obligated to return to Jerusalem – also Sarah, also Rivka, also Rachel, also Leah.

Because until techiat hametim, the body is surrounded by billions of demons, until the revival of the dead, when we will have totally new bodies, like Adam HaRishon before the sin.

So no woman should remain, every one should go home. 

Translated from Rasisei Tal #84.

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FOOTNOTES:

[1] Tehillim 114: 4. This psalm is talking about what happened when the Jews left Egypt.

[2] Referring to the Amorites, who were crushed to death in the mountains when they moved against each other.

[3] Parshat Chukat, Numbers 21: 14-15: “From there they journeyed and encamped on the other side of the Arnon – which is in the wilderness – that juts out from the border of the Amorite; for Arnon is the border of Moab, between Moab and the Amorite. Therefore it is said in the book of the Wars of Hashem: The gift of Reeds and the rivers of Arnon; the waterfall of the rivers when it veered to dwell at Ar.”

[4] From the High Holy Day additions to the Amidah.

[5] Psalm 118:21. “I thank You, for You have answered me and [You have] become for me a salvation.”

[6] Psalm 118:23. “This came from Hashem; it is wondrous in our eyes.”

[7] Psalm 118:24. “ This is the day that Hashem made, we will rejoice and be glad in it.

[8] It’s hard to know what the Rav actually means here, although certainly, the casualties from the ‘rockets’ were relatively very small.

[9] I.e. Shuvu Banim shouldn’t sing any of the songs they customarily sing before prayers with the Rav, in order to show respect for the Rav.

[10] 2 Kings 4:13. “And she said, ‘I dwell among my own people.’”