“The Seven Beggars” was one of Rebbe Nachman’s last teachings.

It contains very deep, mystical allusions to the souls of the ‘True Tzaddikim’, who come down here solely to help rectify humanity, and especially the Jewish bit of it, with their ‘revelations’ of new teachings and Torah.

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You can read a reasonable English translation of ‘The Seven Beggars’ HERE.

But, when he gave the tale over, Rebbe Nachman stopped after the Sixth Day, and the sixth beggar – the beggar who has no hands.

Let’s quote a bit of the Aryeh Kaplan English translation at the very end of the tale of The Seven Beggars:

[Rabbi Nathan [Sternhartz] continues:]

The end of the story would involve the Seventh Day and the beggar without feet. However, we were not worthy of hearing it…We will not be worthy of hearing it until the Messiah comes. May this happen quickly in our days, Amen.”

In the footnotes below, it says this:

A group was standing around Rabbi Nachman after he finished the story of the sixth day, and someone told him an anecdote. He said, “This is the story of the seventh day. It seems that people are already telling my story. I would very much like to finish it.” However, the story was never finished. (Sichot HaRan 149; cf, Ibid. 151, Yemey Moharanat p 32b).

This story would involve the beggar without feet.

From the lessons of Rabbi Nachman, it seems that his power would be through dancing. Rabbi Nachman thus taught that by dancing with one’s feet, one can restore lost faith (Likutey Moharan II:81),

However, in the beginning of the story, Rabbi Nachman told how the King’s Son had lost his faith. Thus the story of the seventh day might involve the restoration of this lost faith (Chochmah U’Tevunah 15:1.)

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One more footnote:

The beggar with no feet is the one who will effect the ultimate rectification of the Princess, who is the Shechinah….This is because the ‘feet’ of Malkuth go down to the realm of evil, giving it existence until the Messiah comes and rectifies all things.

Thus, the ultimate rectification is through the feet.

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I just got sent two PDFs that were publicised on the Rav’s Whatsapp group for English speakers (which I’m not part of, as I don’t have a smartphone. BH.)

THIS PDF – is the original Hebrew words of Rav Berland telling over the story of The Seventh Beggar.

And THIS is an AI translation into English, which is OK to give an idea of what is being said, but BH, I am planning to do a proper translation over the next few days and post it up here.

Print them out, read them over Shabbat.

BH, I’ll get this translated properly into English, and then we’ll link everything back to the Prachei Nivarchim.

If you can read Hebrew, and / or already understand what the Rav is saying at the end of the story, then you’ll already know why I am putting this link here:

The PDF of the Pirchei Nivarchim in Hebrew with a side-by-side English translation:

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