## Likutei Moharan Torah 95

###### Likutei Moharan 95:1:1
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לְשׁוֹן רַבֵּנוּ זִכְרוֹנוֹ לִבְרָכָה כְּשֶׁפַּרְנְסֵי הַדּוֹר וּמַנְהִיגֵי הַדּוֹר נִתְגָּאִים, אֲזַי הַקָּדוֹשׁ־בָּרוּךְ־הוּא מֵקִים עֲלֵיהֶם בְּנֵי אָדָם שֶׁיַּחְלוֹקוּ וִידַבְּרוּ עֲלֵיהֶם, כְּדֵי שֶׁלֹּא יָזוּחוּ דַּעְתָּם עֲלֵיהֶם, כְּמוֹ שֶׁאָמְרוּ חֲכָמֵינוּ זִכְרוֹנָם לִבְרָכָה (יומא כב:): אֵין מְמַנִּים פַּרְנָס עַל הַצִּבּוּר אֶלָּא אִם כֵּן קֻפָּה שֶׁל שְׁרָצִים תָּלוּי מֵאַחֲרָיו.

**Likutey Moharan Volumes 12-15, trans. by Moshe Mykoff. Breslov Research Inst., 1986-2012:**
When the communal and civic leaders of the generation grow haughty, the Holy One, blessed be He, sends people to take issue with them and speak out against them in order to keep them from becoming arrogant. This is as our Sages, of blessed memory, taught: We do not appoint a leader over the community unless he has a checkered background (Yoma 22b).


###### Likutei Moharan 95:1:2
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וְזֶה פֵּרוּשׁ סוֹד, שֶׁמּוּבָא בְּעֵץ־ הַחַיִּים, שַׁעַר אֲרִיךְ אַנְפִּין, פֶּרֶק י"ב: אֲחוֹרַיִם דְּמ"ה, תָּסִיר מ"ה נִשְׁאָר פ"ה.

**Likutey Moharan Volumes 12-15, trans. by Moshe Mykoff. Breslov Research Inst., 1986-2012:**
This is the explanation of the cryptic teaching brought in *Etz Chaim, Shaar Arikh Anpin,* Chapter 12 (p.197): Remove *MaH* from the backpart-of- *MaH, PeH* remains.


###### Likutei Moharan 95:1:3
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פֵּרוּשׁ, עַל־יְדֵי קֻפָּה שֶׁל שְׁרָצִים שֶׁתָּלוּי מֵאֲחוֹרָיו, עַל־יְדֵי־זֶה מַחֲזִיק אֶת עַצְמוֹ בִּבְחִינַת מָה וְאֶפֶס וָאַיִן. וּכְשֶׁמֵּסִיר מִמֶּנּוּ מָה, שֶׁאֵין מַחֲזִיק אֶת עַצְמוֹ לְמָה, אֶלָּא שֶׁהוּא מִתְגָּאֶה, אֲזַי נִשְׁאָר פֶּה, הַיְנוּ שֶׁבְּנֵי אָדָם פּוֹתְחִים אֶת פִּיהֶם וְאוֹמְרִים: חֲזֹר לַאֲחוֹרֶיךָ, וּמְבַזִּים אוֹתוֹ: (עַד כָּאן לְשׁוֹנוֹ ז"ל)

**Likutey Moharan Volumes 12-15, trans. by Moshe Mykoff. Breslov Research Inst., 1986-2012:**
The explanation is as follows: On account of his checkered background, a person considers himself as *MaH* (what), and as nothing and naught. Yet when he removes *MaH* from himself, so that he no longer considers himself as “what” but grows haughty, *PeH* remains—that is, people open their *peh* (mouth) and say, “Turn around to what’s in back of you,” and they ridicule him. {Until here the lesson is *leshon Rabbeinu z’l.*}