(Painting by Lana)
Chayei Moharan 75 and 76
Translated by Rabbi Avraham Greenbaum, “Tzaddik”
(Breslov Research Institute), sec. 201 and 202 (excerpt)
Sefer HaMiddot (Daat B1) states: “Know that all the
worlds and every creature have their own unique form. Thus the form of the lion
differs from that of the sheep, etc. All the differences are alluded to in the
forms of the Hebrew letters and their combinations. One who succeeds in
understanding the Torah can understand the significance of all the differences
between the various creatures.”
[Reb Noson comments:]
I feel this teaching relates to a conversation I heard from
the Rebbe before Shabbat Chanukah 5565 (1804) about the different creatures in
the world.[i] He said then that the forms and shapes of every human being are all included in
the word Adam, man, where it appears
in the Torah (Genesis 1:26). As soon as God said the word Adam, he included every human likeness in it. The same applies to
the words behemah, animal, and chayah, beast, in the account of the Creation. Those words contain
the forms of all animals and beasts. The same applies to other creatures. The
Rebbe spoke about this at length and said that there are categories of wisdom
even in this world on which one can subsist without any other food or drink.[ii] The Rebbe spoke at length, but it was not written down.
The same passage in the Sefer HaMiddot (loc. cit.) ends by saying that one who succeeds in
understanding the Torah “will also know the unity [of all the creatures]—their
beginning and end, for in their beginning and ultimate end they are a unity
with no distinctions.”
[i]
Rabbi Nachman’s Wisdom
(Sichos HaRan), #306.
[ii]
Cf. Likutey Moharan I, 19:8.
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