## Likutei Moharan Torah 53

###### Likutei Moharan 53:1:1
[Likutei Moharan 53:1:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Likutei%20Moharan/r/53:1:1)

גַּם זֶה לְשׁוֹן רַבֵּנוּ זִכְרוֹנוֹ לִבְרָכָה: עִקַּר הוֹלָדָה תָּלוּי בְּהֵ"א, בִּבְחִינַת (בראשית מ״ז:כ״ג): הֵא לָכֶם זֶרַע. וְאַבְרָהָם וְשָׂרָה לֹא הוֹלִידוּ, עַד שֶׁהִגִּיעוּ לַהֵ"א הַזֹּאת.

**Likutey Moharan Volumes 12-15, trans. by Moshe Mykoff. Breslov Research Inst., 1986-2012:**
In the main, the ability to have children is dependent upon the *heh,* in the aspect of “*Heh* (Here) you have seed” (Genesis 47:23). Thus Avraham and Sarah did not have children until they attained this *heh.* As the Sages, of blessed memory, taught: Avram could not father offspring, but Avraham could father offspring (Bereishit Rabbah 44:10) .


###### Likutei Moharan 53:1:2
[Likutei Moharan 53:1:2](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Likutei%20Moharan/r/53:1:2)

כִּי עִקַּר הוֹלָדָה – עַל־יְדֵי הַדַּעַת, בִּבְחִינַת (שם ד): וַיֵּדַע אָדָם וְכוּ', וְקָטָן אֵינוֹ מוֹלִיד (סנהדרין סח:). וְעִקַּר הַדַּעַת, הַיְנוּ שֶׁיִּשְׁתַּמֵּשׁ בְּדַעְתּוֹ, הַיְנוּ שֶׁיּוֹצִיא אֶת שִׂכְלוֹ מִכֹּחַ אֶל הַפֹּעַל. כִּי גַּם לְקָטָן יֵשׁ דַּעַת, אֲבָל אֵצֶל הַקָּטָן עֲדַיִן הַדַּעַת בְּכֹחַ וְלֹא בְּפֹעַל, כִּי לֹא הִשְׁתַּמֵּשׁ בְּדַעְתּוֹ, וְלֹא הוֹצִיא אוֹתוֹ מִכֹּחַ אֶל הַפֹּעַל.

**Likutey Moharan Volumes 12-15, trans. by Moshe Mykoff. Breslov Research Inst., 1986-2012:**
This is because the ability to have children comes essentially through the *daat,* in the aspect of “Adam knew his wife” (Genesis 4:25). Hence, “a child cannot bear offspring” (Sanhedrin 68b), because he lacks *daat* that is whole. And the essence of *daat* is that he makes use of his *daat*—i.e., he converts his intellect from potential to actual. For a child also has *daat,* but a child’s *daat* is still in *potentia* and not *actus,* because he has not made use of his *daat* and has not converted it from potential to actual.


###### Likutei Moharan 53:1:3
[Likutei Moharan 53:1:3](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Likutei%20Moharan/r/53:1:3)

וּמִי שֶׁהוּא שָׁלֵם בְּדַעְתּוֹ, שֶׁהוֹצִיא אוֹתוֹ מִכֹּחַ אֶל הַפֹּעַל, וְהִשִּׂיג בְּדַעְתּוֹ מַה שֶּׁאֶפְשָׁר לְדַעַת הָאָדָם לְהַשִּׂיג בְּדַעְתּוֹ, אֲזַי הוּא קָרוֹב לְדַעַת הַקָּדוֹשׁ־בָּרוּךְ־הוּא, וְאֵין חִלּוּק בֵּין דַּעַת הָאָדָם לְדַעַת הַשֵּׁם יִתְבָּרַךְ, אֶלָּא חֲמִשָּׁה דְּבָרִים, כַּמּוּבָא. וְאָז דַּעְתּוֹ יוֹנֵק מִדַּעַת הַשֵּׁם יִתְבָּרַךְ, שֶׁהִיא בְּחִינַת הֵ"א, וְאָז מוֹלִיד:

**Likutey Moharan Volumes 12-15, trans. by Moshe Mykoff. Breslov Research Inst., 1986-2012:**
Yet someone whose *daat* is whole—because he has converted it from potential to actual, and has attained with his *daat* that which is possible for the human mind to attain with its *daat*—he is then close to the *daat* of the Holy One, and there is no difference between human *daat* and the *daat* of God other than five things, as is brought. Then his *daat* nourishes from God’s *daat,* which is the aspect of *heh,* and he can then father offspring.


###### Likutei Moharan 53:2:1
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וּלְהַשְׁלִים אֶת דַּעְתּוֹ, שֶׁיְּהֵא שָׁלֵם בְּדַעַת, אִי אֶפְשָׁר אֶלָּא עַל־יְדֵי עֵסֶק שֶׁעוֹסֵק עִם בְּנֵי אָדָם לְקָרְבָם לַעֲבוֹדַת הַשֵּׁם יִתְבָּרַךְ, עַל־יְדֵי־זֶה נִשְׁלָם דַּעְתּוֹ, כִּי הֵם מְחַדְּדִין דַּעְתּוֹ, בִּבְחִינוֹת: וּמִתַּלְמִידַי יוֹתֵר מִכֻּלָּן (מכות י). וּבִשְׁבִיל זֶה תַּלְמִידִים נִקְרָאִים בָּנִים (ספרי פ' ואתחנן ע"פ ושננתם לבניך), כִּי עַל יָדָם בָּא הַהוֹלָדָה.

**Likutey Moharan Volumes 12-15, trans. by Moshe Mykoff. Breslov Research Inst., 1986-2012:**
**2.** The only way for a person to complete his *daat,* so that his *daat* is whole, is by means of his active involvement with people to bring them closer to the service of God. Through this his *daat* becomes whole. For they sharpen his *daat,* in the aspect of “but from my students, more than them all” (Makkot 10a). This is the reason [one’s] students are called [one’s] children, for through them comes the ability to have children.


###### Likutei Moharan 53:2:2
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וּבִשְׁבִיל זֶה אַבְרָהָם וְשָׂרָה טָרְחוּ אֶת עַצְמָן לְגַיֵּר גֵּרִים, כִּי עַל־יְדֵי־זֶה הִשְׁלִימוּ דַּעְתָּם, וְנִתְקָרְבוּ לַהֵ"א הַזֹּאת, הַיְנוּ לְדַעַת הַשֵּׁם יִתְבָּרַךְ, וְזָכוּ לְבָנִים. כִּי עַל־יְדֵי גֵּרִים נִתְגַּדֵּל דַּעְתָּם, בִּבְחִינַת: וּמִתַּלְמִידַי יוֹתֵר מִכֻּלָּם:

**Likutey Moharan Volumes 12-15, trans. by Moshe Mykoff. Breslov Research Inst., 1986-2012:**
This is why Avraham and Sarah made such an effort to enlist converts, because through this they completed their *daat* and drew close to this *heh*—i.e., to the *daat* of God—and so merited having children. For through the converts, their *daat* expanded, in the aspect of “but from my students, more than them all.”


###### Likutei Moharan 53:2:3
[Likutei Moharan 53:2:3](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Likutei%20Moharan/r/53:2:3)

אֲבָל מִי שֶׁאֵין שָׁלֵם בְּדַעְתּוֹ, וְהוּא רָחוֹק מִדַּעַת הָאָדָם, כָּל שֶׁכֵּן מִדַּעַת הַשֵּׁם יִתְבָּרַךְ, שֶׁהוּא בְּחִינַת הֵ"א, וַאֲזַי הוּא קָטָן וְאֵין מוֹלִיד:

**Likutey Moharan Volumes 12-15, trans. by Moshe Mykoff. Breslov Research Inst., 1986-2012:**
But someone whose *daat* is not whole, so that he is far even from human *daat,* and certainly from the *daat* of God, which is the aspect of *heh,* he is in the aspect of a child and cannot bear offspring.


###### Likutei Moharan 53:2:4
[Likutei Moharan 53:2:4](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Likutei%20Moharan/r/53:2:4)

וְזֶה הַטַּעַם שֶׁהַצַּדִּיקִים מְיַגְּעִים אֶת עַצְמָן, וְרוֹדְפִים אַחַר בְּנֵי אָדָם לְקָרְבָם לַעֲבוֹדָתוֹ יִתְבָּרַךְ. אֵין זֶה כְּדֵי לְהַרְבּוֹת כְּבוֹדָם, חַס וְשָׁלוֹם, אֶלָּא כְּדֵי לְהַשְׁלִים דַּעְתָּם, בִּבְחִינוֹת: וּמִתַּלְמִידַי יוֹתֵר מִכֻּלָּם:

**Likutey Moharan Volumes 12-15, trans. by Moshe Mykoff. Breslov Research Inst., 1986-2012:**
This is the reason the tzaddikim work so hard and run after people to bring them closer to serving God. This is not so as to increase their [own] glory, God forbid, but to complete their *daat,* in the aspect of “but from my students, more than them all.”


###### Likutei Moharan 53:2:5
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וּבִשְׁבִיל זֶה בְּיַד הַצַּדִּיקִים לִפְקֹד עֲקָרוֹת, כִּי הֵם שְׁלֵמִים בְּדַעַת, וּקְרוֹבִים לְדַעַת עֶלְיוֹן, וְאֵין בֵּין דַּעְתָּם לְדַעַת הַשֵּׁם יִתְבָּרַךְ אֶלָּא חֲמִשָּׁה דְּבָרִים כַּנַּ"ל. וַחֲמִשָּׁה דְּבָרִים, הִיא הִיא דַּעַת הַשֵּׁם יִתְבָּרַךְ, שֶׁמִּשָּׁם הַהוֹלָדָה:

**Likutey Moharan Volumes 12-15, trans. by Moshe Mykoff. Breslov Research Inst., 1986-2012:**
This is why the tzaddikim have the power to grant special providence to barren women, for they are whole in *daat* and close to the Upper *Daat,* so that there is nothing separating their *daat* from the *daat* of God other than five things, as explained above. And five things—this itself is the *daat* of God, from which comes the ability to have children.


###### Likutei Moharan 53:2:6
[Likutei Moharan 53:2:6](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Likutei%20Moharan/r/53:2:6)

וְזֶה (ברכות נז:): שְׁלשָׁה דְּבָרִים מַרְחִיבִין דַּעְתּוֹ שֶׁל אָדָם: אִשָּׁה נָאָה, וְדִירָה, וְכֵלִים.

**Likutey Moharan Volumes 12-15, trans. by Moshe Mykoff. Breslov Research Inst., 1986-2012:**
This is the explanation of: **Three things broaden a man’s *daat*—a beautiful wife, a [beautiful] home, and [beautiful] furnishings** (Berakhot 57b) .


###### Likutei Moharan 53:2:7
[Likutei Moharan 53:2:7](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Likutei%20Moharan/r/53:2:7)

אִשָּׁה, הַיְנוּ הַחֹמֶר מְכֻנֶּה בְּשֵׁם אִשָּׁה, שֶׁיְּהֵא לוֹ חֹמֶר מְמֻזָּג בַּמֶּזֶג הַשָּׁוֶה, שֶׁיְּהֵא רָאוּי לְקַבֵּל שֵׂכֶל.

**Likutey Moharan Volumes 12-15, trans. by Moshe Mykoff. Breslov Research Inst., 1986-2012:**
**a wife—**That is, the corporeal, which is called “a wife.” A person should be temperate in his corporeality, with a balanced temperament so that he is suited for receiving intellect.


###### Likutei Moharan 53:2:8
[Likutei Moharan 53:2:8](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Likutei%20Moharan/r/53:2:8)

וְדִירָה נָאָה, הַיְנוּ הַיִּרְאָה, כַּמַּאֲמָר (שבת לא:): חֲבָל עַל מָאן דְּלֵית לֵהּ דַּרְתָא, כִּי צָרִיךְ שֶׁיְּהֵא יִרְאַת חֶטְאוֹ קוֹדֶמֶת לְחָכְמָתוֹ (אבות פ"ג).

**Likutey Moharan Volumes 12-15, trans. by Moshe Mykoff. Breslov Research Inst., 1986-2012:**
**a beautiful home—**This is the fear of God. As in the teaching [of the Sages]: Woe to the one who has no home (Shabbat 31b). For a person should ensure that his fear of God precedes his wisdom.


###### Likutei Moharan 53:2:9
[Likutei Moharan 53:2:9](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Likutei%20Moharan/r/53:2:9)

וְכֵלִים, הַיְנוּ תַּלְמִידִים הֲגוּנִים שֶׁיְּקַבְּלוּ מִמֶּנּוּ.

**Likutey Moharan Volumes 12-15, trans. by Moshe Mykoff. Breslov Research Inst., 1986-2012:**
**and beautiful furnishings—**These are fitting students to receive from him.


###### Likutei Moharan 53:2:10
[Likutei Moharan 53:2:10](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Likutei%20Moharan/r/53:2:10)

וּכְשֶׁיֵּשׁ לוֹ כָּל אֵלּוּ הֲכָנוֹת, יָכוֹל לָבוֹא לִשְׁלֵמוּת הַדַּעַת:

**Likutey Moharan Volumes 12-15, trans. by Moshe Mykoff. Breslov Research Inst., 1986-2012:**
When a man has all these preparatory elements, they broaden his *daat*—i.e., his *daat* becomes whole, as explained above.


###### Likutei Moharan 53:3:1
[Likutei Moharan 53:3:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Likutei%20Moharan/r/53:3:1)

וְאֵלּוּ הֵן חֲמִשָּׁה דְּבָרִים, שֶׁנִּבְדָּל מַדָּעוֹ מִן מַדָּעֵנוּ.

**Likutey Moharan Volumes 12-15, trans. by Moshe Mykoff. Breslov Research Inst., 1986-2012:**
**3.** Now these are the five things that distinguish His *daat* from our *daat:*


###### Likutei Moharan 53:3:2
[Likutei Moharan 53:3:2](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Likutei%20Moharan/r/53:3:2)

הָרִאשׁוֹן, שֶׁבְּמַדָּעוֹ הָאֶחָד יוֹדֵעַ יְדִיעוֹת רַבּוֹת, וְאֵין רִבּוּי בְּמַדָּעוֹ:

**Likutey Moharan Volumes 12-15, trans. by Moshe Mykoff. Breslov Research Inst., 1986-2012:**
The first is that with a single knowing He knows many things, and there is no multiplicity in His *daat* .


###### Likutei Moharan 53:3:3
[Likutei Moharan 53:3:3](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Likutei%20Moharan/r/53:3:3)

הַשֵּׁנִי, יוֹדֵעַ הַדְּבָרִים קֹדֶם הִמָּצְאָם, אֲפִלּוּ כְּשֶׁאֵין לָהֶם הֲוָיָה כְּלָל:

**Likutey Moharan Volumes 12-15, trans. by Moshe Mykoff. Breslov Research Inst., 1986-2012:**
The second is that He knows things before they come to be, even when they are totally non-existent.


###### Likutei Moharan 53:3:4
[Likutei Moharan 53:3:4](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Likutei%20Moharan/r/53:3:4)

וְהַשְּׁלִישִׁי, שֶׁמַּדָּעוֹ מַקִּיף דְּבָרִים שֶׁאֵין לָהֶם תַּכְלִית:

**Likutey Moharan Volumes 12-15, trans. by Moshe Mykoff. Breslov Research Inst., 1986-2012:**
The third is that His *daat* encompasses things that are infinite.


###### Likutei Moharan 53:3:5
[Likutei Moharan 53:3:5](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Likutei%20Moharan/r/53:3:5)

וְהַרְבִיעִי, שֶׁאֵין שִׁנּוּי בִּידִיעָתוֹ. וְאֵין שִׁנּוּי כְּשֶׁיּוֹדֵעַ הַדָּבָר בְּכֹחַ, וְאַחַר־כָּךְ שָׁב פֹּעַל:

**Likutey Moharan Volumes 12-15, trans. by Moshe Mykoff. Breslov Research Inst., 1986-2012:**
The fourth is that His *daat* never undergoes a change, so that there is no change when He knows something in potential that afterwards becomes actual.


###### Likutei Moharan 53:3:6
[Likutei Moharan 53:3:6](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Likutei%20Moharan/r/53:3:6)

וְהַחֲמִישִׁי שֶׁיְּדִיעָתוֹ אֵין מוֹצִיא הַדָּבָר מֵאֶפְשָׁרוּתוֹ: עַד כָּאן לְשׁוֹנוֹ ז"ל.

**Likutey Moharan Volumes 12-15, trans. by Moshe Mykoff. Breslov Research Inst., 1986-2012:**
And the fifth is that His knowing something does not preclude its contingency.


###### Likutei Moharan 53:4:1
[Likutei Moharan 53:4:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Likutei%20Moharan/r/53:4:1)

וְהֵא לְךָ נֻסְחָא שְׁנִיָּה, שֶׁכָּתַבְתִּי בְּעַצְמִי קְצָת מִזֶּה, כְּפִי מַה שֶּׁשָּׁמַעְתִּי, וְזֶהוּ:

**Likutey Moharan Volumes 12-15, trans. by Moshe Mykoff. Breslov Research Inst., 1986-2012:**
**4.** Here you have a second version, in which I recorded on my own a part of this lesson based on what I had heard:


###### Likutei Moharan 53:4:2
[Likutei Moharan 53:4:2](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Likutei%20Moharan/r/53:4:2)

כְּשֶׁאָדָם זוֹכֶה לִשְׁלֵמוּת הַדַּעַת, הַיְנוּ שֶׁזּוֹכֶה לָדַעַת שֶׁאִי אֶפְשָׁר לְאָדָם לֵידַע יוֹתֵר, אֲזַי יֵשׁ הֶפְרֵשׁ בֵּין דַּעַת הָאָדָם בִּשְׁלֵמוּת, לְדַעַת הַשֵּׁם יִתְבָּרַךְ, בְּחָמֵשׁ בְּחִינוֹת, וְהֵם מְפֹרָשִׁים בַּסְּפָרִים.

**Likutey Moharan Volumes 12-15, trans. by Moshe Mykoff. Breslov Research Inst., 1986-2012:**
When a person merits perfected *daat*—i.e., he merits a [level of] *daat* beyond which the human intellect cannot grasp—then the difference between perfected human *daat* and the *daat* of God is [only] in five aspects. These are expounded on in the holy books.


###### Likutei Moharan 53:4:3
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וְצָרִיךְ הָאָדָם לְהִשְׁתַּדֵּל שֶׁיַּגִּיעַ לִשְׁלֵמוּת הַדַּעַת, מַה שֶּׁאִי אֶפְשָׁר לְאָדָם לֵידַע יוֹתֵר, וְלֹא יִהְיֶה הֶפְרֵשׁ בֵּין דַּעְתּוֹ לְדַעַת הַשֵּׁם יִתְבָּרַךְ, רַק בַּחֲמִשָּׁה דְּבָרִים אֵלּוּ, שֶׁאֵלּוּ חֲמִשָּׁה דְּבָרִים אִי אֶפְשָׁר לְשֵׂכֶל אֱנוֹשִׁי לָדַעַת, אִם לֹא מִי שֶׁהוּא לְמַעְלָה מִמִּין אֱנוֹשִׁי.

**Likutey Moharan Volumes 12-15, trans. by Moshe Mykoff. Breslov Research Inst., 1986-2012:**
Thus, a person has to strive to attain perfected *daat,* [to that level] beyond which man cannot know. Then there will be no difference between his *daat* and the *daat* of God other than in these five things. For these five things cannot be known by man’s intellect, unless by someone who is more elevated than [all] mankind.


###### Likutei Moharan 53:4:4
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אַךְ לִזְכּוֹת לִשְׁלֵמוּת הַדַּעַת הוּא עַל־יְדֵי גֵּרִים, כְּמוֹ שֶׁאָמְרוּ רַבּוֹתֵינוּ זִכְרוֹנָם לִבְרָכָה: הַרְבֵּה לָמַדְתִּי מֵרַבּוֹתַי, וּמִתַּלְמִידַי יוֹתֵר מִכֻּלָּם. כִּי עַל־יְדֵי שֶׁכָּל אֶחָד מַקְשֶׁה וְשׁוֹאֵל, כִּי כָּל אֶחָד יֵשׁ לוֹ מְנִיעָה לַעֲבוֹדַת הַשֵּׁם יִתְבָּרַךְ, וְצָרִיךְ לְהָשִׁיב לְכָל אֶחָד עַל שְׁאֵלָתוֹ, עַל־יְדֵי־זֶה נִשְׁלָם דַּעְתּוֹ, וְעַל־יְדֵי־זֶה זוֹכֶה לְבָנִים,

**Likutey Moharan Volumes 12-15, trans. by Moshe Mykoff. Breslov Research Inst., 1986-2012:**
Yet the way to merit perfected *daat* is through converts. As the Sages, of blessed memory, taught: “I learned much from my teachers… but from my students, more than them all.” Because each one questions and asks, for each one has impediments to the service of God, and it is necessary to answer each one’s questions—through this his *daat* is completed. As a result he merits having children.


###### Likutei Moharan 53:4:5
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כִּי קָטָן אֵינוֹ מוֹלִיד, כִּי אֵין לוֹ דַּעַת הַשָּׁלֵם, אַךְ כְּשֶׁזּוֹכֶה לְדַעַת הַשָּׁלֵם, זוֹכֶה לְבָנִים. וְעַל כֵּן בְּאַבְרָהָם שֶׁהוּא הָיָה מְגַיֵּר אֲנָשִׁים, וְשָׂרָה מְגַיֶּרֶת נָשִׁים (ב"ר פ' לט), עַל־יְדֵי זֶה זָכָה לִשְׁלֵמוּת הַדַּעַת, שֶׁלֹּא הָיָה הֶפְרֵשׁ בֵּין דַּעְתּוֹ לְדַעַת הַשֵּׁם יִתְבָּרַךְ, אֶלָּא אֵלּוּ הַחֲמִשָּׁה דְּבָרִים, וְעַל־יְדֵי־זֶה זָכָה לְהַהֵ"א הַנַּ"ל.

**Likutey Moharan Volumes 12-15, trans. by Moshe Mykoff. Breslov Research Inst., 1986-2012:**
A child cannot bear offspring because he lacks *daat* that is whole. But when he merits *daat* that is whole, he merits having children. Therefore through this, Avraham—he would convert the men and Sarah would convert the women—merited perfected *daat,* so that there was no difference between his *daat* and the *daat* of God other than these five things. And as a result he merited the *heh* mentioned above.


###### Likutei Moharan 53:4:6
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וְעַל־כֵּן אַבְרָם אֵינוֹ מוֹלִיד, אַבְרָהָם מוֹלִיד (שם פרשה מד), כִּי עַל־יְדֵי שְׁלֵמוּת הַדַּעַת, שֶׁהוּא בְּחִינַת ה', זָכָה לְהוֹלִיד:

**Likutey Moharan Volumes 12-15, trans. by Moshe Mykoff. Breslov Research Inst., 1986-2012:**
Thus: “Avram could not father offspring, but Avraham could father offspring.” For by means of perfected *daat,* which is the aspect of the *heh,* he merited having children.