This is a very interesting part of the Rav’s recent shiur.

Mamash, it also plays into the whole idea of ‘being real’, and understanding that every real tzaddik is surrounded by people who aren’t very nice, just as moths are attracted to a flame.

This is not the first time the Rav has been surrounded by a bunch of bullying ‘moths’, and it’s also pertinent to remember that King David himself was surrounded by murderous ‘moths’, including his own son, Absalom.

Compare and contrast with all the ‘fake perfect tzaddikim’ stuff you find on YWN, and in Artscroll, and just about every where else in the Jewish world, and you’ll start to understand just how phony so much of what we’re taught about our gadolim really is.

There are power struggles going on all over the place in the frum Jewish world, way, way worse than what you hear about Shuvu Banim. Just, the Rav’s innate honesty, humility and goodness means that he’s open about what is happening, and defusing it with that honesty. Because evil thrives behind closed doors.

And by the Rav – his tent is open to all four directions, most hours of the day.

There’s lots and lots of hints hidden in this instalment, about Sabbateans, black magic, connections with Krakow, and all the ‘goyim’ in the graveyard there, and a bunch of other stuff, too.

Enjoy!

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[The Rav returns to speaking about the attack against his gabbaim.]

So, the gabbaim are not to blame for anything, that the Rav didn’t get there [to Uman].

It was a decree from shemayim, the Rebbe wanted us to be in Krakow, that we would be by the REMA, and by the Megaleh Amukah, and by the BACH.[1]

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The BACH was – Shniuk told me this – there was one person who was a meat merchant.

He had a butchers’ shop, and all the non-Jews used to come and by from him, because by the non-Jews, it’s all fake meat. They take treifot, they take spoiled meat.

So, everyone used to come and buy from him, by this butcher. So, they decided to murder him.

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Like they did to Natan Goll, they wanted to murder him.

They need to stop the incitement against the gabbaim, because no-one knows who is going to be the next gabbai in turn.

At the end of the day, he gets everyone in, here. Whoever comes, he lets them in even at 1am, even like that. I want to speak with the Rav – ok, good, so come a different hour…

But they want to bring everyone in, here.

There are 5,000 people here, it’s possible to let in 5,000, even.

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In a day there are 86,400 seconds.

You can let 86,400 [people] in, each one for a second. When there is 86 [thousand] in Shuvu Banim, every one will be let in, there are 24 hours. The Rav is prepared to serve, and to receive the kahal.

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So, they need to stop hitting the gabbaim, and to not incite against the gabbaim.

This is not appropriate.

From shemayim, the Rav was not allowed to enter [Uman], this was a gezeira.

Hashem wanted that we would be by the REMA, and by the BACH.

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So by the BACH, there was one merchant, who was murdered.

Simply, the non-Jews murdered him. And from the time they murdered him, every day, another [non-Jewish] merchant would die.[2] Each day, another butcher would die. There were 200 butchers, and every day, one would die, from the time that they murdered him [i.e. the Jewish butcher].

The Jewish butcher requested that he would be buried with his knife in his hand, because there is a [text missing in original] in Krakow, that whoever is murdered by a goy, they bury him with a knife in his hand.

He wouldn’t enter Gan Eden until he’d killed the goy who had killed him.

This is what is written, that whoever was murdered by the hand of a non-Jew, he doesn’t enter Gan Eden until the person who killed him is himself murdered.

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Most of the terrorists [in Israel] have already been executed, killed.

In Krakow, they buried him with a knife in his hand. The [non-Jewish] merchants saw that 200 people had died, each day, another one died.

Who is doing this?!

Who is creating this dybbuk?!

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And so it was revealed to them that by the Jews, they enter the grave with a knife [in their hand].

They said: if this is so, we are going to slaughter all of the Jews! Tomorrow, we will go and open his grave, and if we find this merchant with a knife – we’ll slaughter all the Jews! The Jews here are killing everyone, they have their magic, they have all sorts of things, they are murdering all the non-Jews!

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So the BACH – it was revealed to him in a dream, that tomorrow they are coming to murder all the Jews, because he was buried with a knife in his hand.

Immediately after opening the grave, if he had a knife in his hand, they said, as I told you, that then they would slaughter all of the Jews.

Not a single Jew would be left alive. Not a single Jew would be left alive.

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OK, so the BACH said:

False dreams will be recounted.[3]

After an hour, he dreamt it again, that tomorrow they going to murder all of the Jews.

Take the knife out of his hand! Yalla, go and do it already!

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This is a tale from Krakow, when we were there, we merited to hear this story.

OK, he said: False dreams will be recounted.

After an hour, he dreamt the dream again. Tomorrow, they are going to murder all of the Jews – take the knife out of his hand!!! Open his grave!!!

He said, it seems that this is a serious dream…

He called the whole Beit Din together, what should we do?

They said: the first thing, is to send a minyan [to pray by the deceased merchant’s grave]. If we’re opening the grave, we need to make a minyan, and to recite the whole book of Tehillim.

And after that, we’ll take the knife out of his hand.

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They opened the grave, sent a minyan, recited the whole book of Tehillim, they wanted to take the knife out of his hand – it was impossible.

They tried to pull it, he gripped it even harder, even though he was dead!

Go and try and argue with a dead person… Is it possible, to argue with a dead man?

Let go of the knife!

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OK, so they brought another minyan, another time they said all the Tehillim, and they wanted to take the knife out of his hand.

They didn’t manage to do it.

They brought a third minyan, said the Tehillim again, it was already 4am. Already, in another hour the goyim were going to come, to open the grave. If they would see a knife – they would murder all the Jews.

OK, so another time – the third minyan also didn’t succeed. They went to take the knife out of his hand – it was impossible.

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OK, so the BACH came himself.

You are going to let the knife go!! You don’t know what I am going to do to you, nu, let go of the knife, already!

He was Shuvu Banim, once he learned in Shuvu Banim.

Let the knife out of your hand!

Try arguing with a dead man…

So the BACH told him: I promise you that I will be buried next to you.

And so, the BACH is buried on the very edge, the border, the limit [of Krakow’s old cemetery]. That’s where they buried him.

As soon as the BACH said I will be buried next to you, he released the knife.

And so, the BACH is buried there.

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There are a million stories in Krakow.

Even the non-Jews go there. When we came to be by the Megaleh Amukot, I was in the hospital for three hours. They’d already closed the cemetery. We got there Friday. They told us, yesterday, there were a thousand goyim here!

The goyim know all of the stories, and they go to the graves of the tzaddikim, to work miracles, and to become pregnant.

The cemetery is full of goyim.

Even when we got there, it was full of goyim, all the non-Jews believe all the stories.

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So from today, stop beating up the gabbaim.

The gabbaim are not to blame, we tried everything.

In the end, the person who was in charge of the visas, he went to drink whiskey in 770, there was a meeting of the United Nations.

A United Nations meeting, and then Trump decided that they were going to release all of the hostages. He announced that now, he was going to free them, and if not, I will finish off Gaza!!! Wipe them off the map!!!

The head of Hamas was scared, because now also the Turks and also Qatar are against the Hamas. He promised them a bonus, it seems. How he bought them, I don’t know. It’s a secret.

So now, they [Hamas] don’t have a backer. Their backers were Qatar and Turkey, who is Erdogan.

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And he didn’t want to shake his hand.

There was also now a gathering at Sharm El Sheikh, and Bibi didn’t want to shake the hand of Ergogan. And also not of Abu Mazen.

So he said, it’s a chag, I can’t travel.

He had a good excuse.

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There are a million stories, here.

But we won’t keep you here until the morning.

In any case, stop beating up the gabbaim, from today. And those who did the beating need to go and ask for forgiveness, because otherwise, there will be a very harsh sentence, here. Because what happened here was attempted murder. Simply, it was an attempted murder here, they wanted to kill him.

They decided that they wanted to murder him, because ‘he didn’t let the Rav travel to Uman’.

That’s not what happened, this is false talk, this is delusional.

And it’s impossible to leave such criminals in the yeshiva. Anyone who joined in the attempt, the attempted murder, he has to be kicked out of the yeshiva for the rest of his life. Only if he goes now, and asks for forgiveness, and regrets [what he did], and truly weeps.

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And don’t beat up other gabbaim, because now, it’s all the gabbaim in turn.

[Turning to someone next to him:]

You are a Tzucker, you are also a gabbai. You are a tzaddi’k, you have time, another year. Shtern, this is ‘shi’n’. This is another two years. But you, Triceman, te’t’. This is dangerous. Tet-tet is another nine months. And each month, they will kill another gabbai.

They  have a catalogue, they have all the names. Each month, they will slaughter another gabbai.

You are Goldblum, you are ‘gimmel’. This is dangerous. But you are Rubinstein, this is r’. You have time for another 10 years.

In any case, they need to stop beating up the gabbaim, and to stop inciting, because incitement turns into action.

Assulin, is ‘ale’f. Oy, oy, oy, oy. He’s the most in danger.

Tomorrow, they are going to murder him.

He was in danger of being killed. When I got to him, he hadn’t been able to see for 48 hours. Now, he started to see, all of a sudden.

They need to ask forgiveness from him, and to really weep. And to make a vow, not to incite against the gabbaim.

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TBC

Translated and excerpted from Shivivei Or 428.

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FOOTNOTES:

[1] From my own research, the leading families of Sabbateans in the Jewish community all descend from these three Sages. The Baal Shem Tov also descends from the REMA, which means, by extension, so does Rebbe Nachman of Breslov himself.

[2] It seems that the non-Jewish merchants murdered their Jewish competition, because he was getting all the customers.

[3] The Hebrew expression you are meant to say when you have a bad dream: חלומות שווא ידברו.