What Did Rabbi Nachman from Breslev Say About The Munchausen Rabbis of Today? (7 minutes)

1:06It's not quite that. There are a couple of very interesting chiddushim. The first one we mentioned last night, but this is in Yalkut Yosher Chassidim by the Pele Yoetz, Rabbi Eliezer Papo. And he says this, this is a Yalkut Chasidim, it's a Mussar book for Chasidim in essence. He says anyone who sees his friend committing a sin, And doesn't say anything, doesn't warn him at all, like he's supposed to, according to the mitzvah of tochacha, or the mitzvah of rebuking. It is the same thing as if he murdered him. He's not talking about, he saw a mechaleil Shabbat.

2:20Driving, you know, no, no, he's talking about any sin. Any sin. You see one of your friends, listen, speak to the Rabbi inappropriately, speak to, you know, any, you know, doing something inappropriate, doing something that's a sin. He says, hey, listen, by the way, you know, you really shouldn't have said that or you shouldn't have done that. He doesn't do it. He says, Rav Yisroel Salanter, one of the giants. He says, you're a murderer. You're a murderer. It didn't say, oh, be happy, be happy. It didn't say that in the Chassidic book. Okay. But people might say, oh yeah, but Rabbi Eliezer is not Breslov; he's not Chabad. Okay, so let's go. Let's continue. In Likutey Moharan, Chelek Aleph, Perek Nun Vav, Ot Gimel, of Rabbi Nachman from Breslov. So this is, in essence, the foundation of Breslov. It talks about how the rabbanut, the rabbinate, being a rabbi, in essence, the position of being a rabbi, is burying himself by being a rabbi.

3:44This job, the ultimate outcome of his job, he's in essence killing himself doing it. Why? Because he doesn't rebuke. But if he rebukes the sinners, he saves himself at least. At least he saves himself. The rabbi is talking. He's not talking about the sinners only. He's talking about the rabbi himself. He goes, you want to be a rabbi? Okay. Be a rabbi. But just make sure you realize, if you don't rebuke your people, you're taking on all of their sins and you're burying yourself. It says, " You're taking on all of their sins, and you're burying yourself. It says, if at least he warns them and rebukes them, at least he does his part. At least he does his job. He fulfilled his job. You told him not to be Mechalel Shabbat. You told him not to eat Taref. You told him not to go with Eshes Ish. You told him not to do all these things. You warned him what's going to happen. You told him it's going to end like this. You did your part. If at least he warns them and rebukes them, at least he does his part. At least he does his job. He fulfilled his job. You told him don't be Mechalel Shabbat. You told him don't eat Treif. You told him don't go with Eshes Ish. You told him don't do all these things. You warned him what's going to happen. You told him it's going to end badly. You told him it's going too far. You told him, you did your part. You did your part.

5:11What happens when you did your part? You saved your soul. Not that you saved him. You told him. It didn't say that by you telling him, you saved his soul. No, because maybe he's not going to listen to you. But you saved yours. At least you saved yours. Why? Because if you didn't, you would take on his sin. He goes with a married woman. In Shemayim, you are seen as if you went with a married woman. He's a Mechalel Shabbat. In Shemayim, you are seen as a Mechalel Shabbat. This is not simply Tel Arabi. This is Tel Arabi. And it uses the verse in Sefer Yechezkel, "And you warned the wicked person, and he did not do teshuvah. He is going to die because of his sin; he is going to die as a sinner. But you have saved your soul." The source is Sefer Yechezkel (Ezekiel), chapter 3.

6:16And the sword—this is all written in Likutey Moharan, by Rabbi Nachman of Breslov. Likutey Moharan, chapter Aleph, section Nun Vav, which is 56, paragraph 3. But if he doesn't warn or rebuke them, the entire sin is on him. He says, just like it's written, the rabbanut, having the rabbinical position, buries its owners. Buries the rabbis. Why? Because they didn't rebuke. This is Rabbi Nachman from Breslov. He didn't talk about, hey, go...

7:17Don't rebuke. Where does it say that? Which part of the book does it say that? And it continues. You continue reading his work. It doesn't say anything about this stuff that people think. It's not all joyous. No, not exactly. Not exactly.