The Tzaddik Is Our Mother: Unconditional Love & Bringing Elokim Back to Havayah | Torah 4, Uman 5787

A shiur on Likutey Moharan Torah 4, given in the Heichal HaTorah in Uman during the last 48 hours before Rosh Hashanah 5787, by Nachman Frid. In Rebbe Nachman's time, his chassidim came to him before Rosh Hashanah for vidui devarim, and people called them "viduinikes." To an outsider it can sound like confession, but the Rebbe explains how it works, and it's something entirely different. In this shiur: Ein Sof and our finite world: why Elokim is the name of tzimtzum, and malchus is Hashem's hidden kingship Sheviras hakeilim, the scattered sparks, and a glimpse of the Lost Princess inside each of us "Kechu imachem devarim": bringing Elokim back to Havayah, "bayom hahu yihyeh Hashem echad ushmo echad" How the world was created through Hashem's dibbur and tzirufei osiyos, and how an aveirah turns "lo signov" into "signov" "V'nechkak al atzmosav": what gets engraved on our bones Why vidui is said in front of the talmid chacham: he makes himself like leftovers and reaches ayin, the source of chochmah, so he can rearrange the letters back to what they were 57 years of damage fixed without needing 57 more years: the three steps of getting close to the tzaddik Re'iyas pnei hatzaddik: th