## Sichot HaRan Chapter 98

###### Sichot HaRan 98:1
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אֲמִירַת תְּהִלִּים מַעֲלָה גְּדוֹלָה, כְּאִלּוּ אֲמָרָם דָּוִד הַמֶּלֶךְ בְּעַצְמוֹ.

**Rabbi Nachman's Wisdom, trans. Aryeh Kaplan, Jerusalem. Breslov Research Institute, 1973:**
When you say the Psalms, it is as great as if King David himself were saying them.


###### Sichot HaRan 98:2
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כִּי הוּא אֲמָרָם בְּרוּחַ הַקֹּדֶשׁ וְהָרוּחַ הַקֹּדֶשׁ מֻנָּח בְּתוֹךְ הַתֵּבוֹת, וּכְשֶׁאוֹמְרָם, הוּא מְעוֹרֵר בְּרוּחַ פִּיו אֶת הָרוּחַ הַקֹּדֶשׁ עַד שֶׁנֶּחֱשָׁב כְּאִלּוּ אֲמָרָם דָּוִד הַמֶּלֶךְ ע"ה בְּעַצְמוֹ.

**Rabbi Nachman's Wisdom, trans. Aryeh Kaplan, Jerusalem. Breslov Research Institute, 1973:**
King David wrote the Psalms with Divine inspiration – the holy breath, *ru’ach hakodesh* (cf. *Likutey Moharan* I, 156). This holy breath is still in the words of the Psalms. When you recite the Psalms, your own breath arouses the holy breath in these words. Thus, when you say the Psalms, it is as if King David himself were chanting them.


###### Sichot HaRan 98:3
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וְהוּא מְסֻגָּל מְאֹד לְרַפְּאוֹת הַחוֹלֶה לִהְיוֹת לוֹ בִּטָּחוֹן רַק עַל הַשֵּׁם יִתְבָּרַךְ, שֶׁעַל־יְדֵי אֲמִירַת תְּהִלִּים יוֹשִׁיעוֹ ה'.

**Rabbi Nachman's Wisdom, trans. Aryeh Kaplan, Jerusalem. Breslov Research Institute, 1973:**
Saying Psalms is a remedy for a sick person as it brings him to put his trust only in G-d.


###### Sichot HaRan 98:4
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וְהַבִּטָּחוֹן הוּא בְּחִינַת מִשְׁעֶנֶת, כְּמוֹ שֶׁהָאָדָם נִשְׁעָן עַל הַמִּטָּה כֵּן הוּא נִשְׁעָן עַל הַבִּטָּחוֹן שֶׁבּוֹטֵחַ שֶׁיּוֹשִׁיעוֹ ה', כְּמוֹ שֶׁאָמַר דָּוִד (תְּהִלִּים יח): "וַיְהִי ה' לְמִשְׁעָן לִי".

**Rabbi Nachman's Wisdom, trans. Aryeh Kaplan, Jerusalem. Breslov Research Institute, 1973:**
This trust is a support and a staff. One leans and depends on God just as one leans on a staff or cane. King David said, “God has been my staff” (Psalms 18:19). He could lean on God as on a physical support.


###### Sichot HaRan 98:5
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וְעַל־כֵּן עַל־יְדֵי־זֶה נִתְרַפֵּא הַחוֹלֶה כְּמוֹ שֶׁכָּתוּב (שְׁמוֹת כא): "אִם יָקוּם וְהִתְהַלֵּךְ בַּחוּץ עַל מִשְׁעַנְתּוֹ וְנִקָּה".

**Rabbi Nachman's Wisdom, trans. Aryeh Kaplan, Jerusalem. Breslov Research Institute, 1973:**
It is written, “If he gets up and walks about outside on his *staff*, he shall be cleared” (Exodus 21:19). One is healed through the staff of trust.


###### Sichot HaRan 98:6
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וְזֶה בְּחִינַת (יְשַׁעְיָה יא): "וְיָצָא חֹטֶר מִגֶּזַע יִשַּׁי" הַנֶּאֱמַר עַל מָשִׁיחַ שֶׁהוּא דָּוִד בְּחִינַת (אֵיכָה ד): "רוּחַ אַפֵּינוּ מְשִׁיחַ ה'".

**Rabbi Nachman's Wisdom, trans. Aryeh Kaplan, Jerusalem. Breslov Research Institute, 1973:**
It is also written, “A *staff* shall come forth out of the stock of Jesse” (Isaiah 11:1). This verse speaks of the Mashiach, who will emanate from David. (He will hold the healing staff of faith.) It is also written, “The *breath* of our nostrils, God’s Mashiach” (Lamentations 4:20). (The staff of healing will arise through the holy breath that King David placed in the Psalms.)


###### Sichot HaRan 98:7
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וְזֶה בְּחִינַת (פְּסָחִים סח. זֹהַר א קיד: קלה.): 'עֲתִידִין צַדִּיקִים שֶׁיְּחַיּוּ מֵתִים עַל־יְדֵי הַמִּשְׁעֶנֶת' בְּחִינַת "וְאִישׁ מִשְׁעַנְתּוֹ בְּיָדוֹ" בְּחִינַת "וְנָתַתָּ הַמִּשְׁעֶנֶת עַל פְּנֵי הַנַּעַר" עַד כָּאן.

**Rabbi Nachman's Wisdom, trans. Aryeh Kaplan, Jerusalem. Breslov Research Institute, 1973:**
Regarding the Messianic age, it is written, “There shall yet sit old men and women in the broad places of Jerusalem for many days, every man with his *staff* in his hand” (Zechariah 8:4).
From this verse, the Talmud learns that tzaddikim will resurrect the dead in the Messianic age (*Pesachim* 68a; *Zohar* I, 114b, 135a). The staff that they hold will be that of Elisha, which was used to resurrect the son of the Shunamite. Thus, it is written, “Place my staff on the boy’s face” (II Kings 4:29). (This is the healing staff of faith.)


###### Sichot HaRan 98:8
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(כָּל זֶה לֹא נִכְתַּב בִּשְׁלֵמוּת. וְחָסֵר הָרֹב רַק מַה שֶּׁנִּתְפָּס בַּמֹּחַ קְצָת נִכְתַּב).

**Rabbi Nachman's Wisdom, trans. Aryeh Kaplan, Jerusalem. Breslov Research Institute, 1973:**
[This was not recorded completely or perfectly. Despite the fact that the major portion is no longer available, the little that was understood and recalled is here included.]


###### Sichot HaRan 98:9
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חֹרֶף הוּא בְּחִינַת עִבּוּר, וְקַיִץ הוּא בְּחִינַת לֵדָה.

**Rabbi Nachman's Wisdom, trans. Aryeh Kaplan, Jerusalem. Breslov Research Institute, 1973:**
Winter is pregnancy and summer is birth (*Tzaddik* #198).


###### Sichot HaRan 98:10
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וְאָז דִּבֵּר עִמָּנוּ שִׂיחָה נִפְלָאָה וְנִשְׁכַּח הָרֹב וּמַה שֶּׁאֲנִי זוֹכֵר עֲדַיִן הוּא מַה שֶּׁדִּבֵּר אָז מֵעִנְיַן הַקַּיִץ שֶׁהָיָה אָז מְמַשְׁמֵשׁ וּבָא. כִּי שִׂיחָה זוֹ הָיְתָה אָז בִּימֵי נִיסָן קֹדֶם פֶּסַח בְּעֵת שֶׁהָיָה הַבְּרִית מִילָה שֶׁל בְּנוֹ שְׁלֹמֹה אֶפְרַיִם ז"ל בְּיוֹם שְׁלִישִׁי לַמִּילָה.

**Rabbi Nachman's Wisdom, trans. Aryeh Kaplan, Jerusalem. Breslov Research Institute, 1973:**
The Rebbe then spoke wondrous words, but they were mostly forgotten. He spoke of the summer which was then approaching. This took place in Nisan, shortly before Pesach, on the third day after the *brit milah* of the Rebbe’s son, Shlomo Ephraim, of blessed memory.¹⁷⁴ Nisan 5565 (March 1805) (*Yemey Moharnat* #5; *Tzaddik* #153).

footnotes:
¹⁷⁴ The child was born shortly before Rosh Chodesh


###### Sichot HaRan 98:11
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וְדִבֵּר אָז, שֶׁבַּחֹרֶף כָּל הָעֲשָׂבִים וְכָל הַצְּמָחִים כֻּלָּם מֵתִים. כִּי בָּטֵל כֹּחָם בַּחֹרֶף וְהֵם אָז בִּבְחִינַת מִיתָה.

**Rabbi Nachman's Wisdom, trans. Aryeh Kaplan, Jerusalem. Breslov Research Institute, 1973:**
The Rebbe then said that in the winter, all plants and grasses die. Their strength dissipates and they are like the dead.


###### Sichot HaRan 98:12
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וּכְשֶׁבָּא הַקַּיִץ כֻּלָּם נִתְעוֹרְרִים וְחַיִּים וְאָז טוֹב וְיָפֶה מְאֹד כְּשֶׁיּוֹצְאִים לָשׂוּחַ בַּשָּׂדֶה – 'שִׂיחָה – זוֹ תְּפִלָּה' (בְּרָכוֹת כו:) וּתְחִינָה וּתְשׁוּקָה וְגַעְגּוּעִים לְהַשֵּׁם יִתְבָּרַךְ. וְאָז כָּל שִׂיחַ וְשִׂיחַ הַשָּׂדֶה הַמַּתְחִילִים לִחְיוֹת וְלִצְמֹחַ אָז, כֻּלָּם נִכְסָפִים וְנִכְלָלִים בְּתוֹךְ שִׂיחָתוֹ וּתְפִלָּתוֹ.

**Rabbi Nachman's Wisdom, trans. Aryeh Kaplan, Jerusalem. Breslov Research Institute, 1973:**
But when summer comes, they awaken and return to life. Meditation and prayer is *SIChah*. A bush of the field is a *SIaCh* (Genesis 2:5). When every bush (*SIaCH*) of the field begins to return to life and grow, it yearns to be included in prayer and meditation (*SIChah*) (see “*His Wisdom*” #144, #227; *Likutey Moharan* II, 11). It is written, “Isaac went out to meditate in the field” (Genesis 24:63). The Talmud says that this meditation was prayer (*Berakhot* 26b). When summer begins to approach, it is particularly good to meditate in the fields. This is a time when you can pray to God with longing and yearning.


###### Sichot HaRan 98:13
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וְהֶאֱרִיךְ אָז בְּשִׂיחָה נִפְלָאָה בְּעִנְיָן זֶה. וְעוֹד בִּשְׁאָר עִנְיָנִים.

**Rabbi Nachman's Wisdom, trans. Aryeh Kaplan, Jerusalem. Breslov Research Institute, 1973:**
The Rebbe spoke at length about this. He also discussed several other matters.