Looking at the mess the dirt the noise the carelessness of our people there….. I can very well understand the anger and disgust from the locals of Uman.
I would be too if a group (10 or even 10,000) came in my neighborhood and left a mess like that.
Well…. may Hashem grant us all A Git Genentech’te Yor
After describing Rebbe Nachman’s greatness in Sichos HaRan, Reb Nosson writes, “V’adayin ha’ohr ne’elam v’nistar”, “And the light is yet concealed and hidden.” It is perhaps for this reason that the majority of video footage coming out of Uman portrays but a tiny element of the gathering: the Pushkina Square Na Nach center where, before and after the chag, between 50-100 Jews can be seen dancing to techno beats all hours of the day and night – footage which, understandably, turns people off and solidifies their incorrect understanding of Rebbe Nachman, his teachings, and the Rosh HaShana gathering. Very rarely does footage of the intense holiness of the tziyon, buzzing with the Torah and tefillah of the most diverse possible range of Jews from every age, stage, background, continent, and level of religiosity, become very widely shared. Images of the children’s Tikkun Haklalli gathering rarely make the news. The “main event”, Rosh HaShana itself, of course, cannot be captured at all. And so the primary elements of this kibbutz which feature some of the most beautiful, deep, and holy experiences of the Jewish world remain hidden behind the cheap facade of a singular focus on those hyper-specific scenes which, fortifying a pre-conceived impression (itself often a defense mechanism which protects against actually taking the time to explore what it is about this tzaddik and his teachings that attracts so many people and allows them to dig deeper in their lives and avodas Hashem) are most widely shared and roundly mocked. For the better or for the worse, like Reb Nosson wrote close to 200 years ago, “V’adayin ha’ohr ne’elam v’nistar.”
Looking at the mess the dirt the noise the carelessness of our people there….. I can very well understand the anger and disgust from the locals of Uman.
I would be too if a group (10 or even 10,000) came in my neighborhood and left a mess like that.
Well…. may Hashem grant us all A Git Genentech’te Yor
A bunch of well meaning misguided people.
After describing Rebbe Nachman’s greatness in Sichos HaRan, Reb Nosson writes, “V’adayin ha’ohr ne’elam v’nistar”, “And the light is yet concealed and hidden.” It is perhaps for this reason that the majority of video footage coming out of Uman portrays but a tiny element of the gathering: the Pushkina Square Na Nach center where, before and after the chag, between 50-100 Jews can be seen dancing to techno beats all hours of the day and night – footage which, understandably, turns people off and solidifies their incorrect understanding of Rebbe Nachman, his teachings, and the Rosh HaShana gathering. Very rarely does footage of the intense holiness of the tziyon, buzzing with the Torah and tefillah of the most diverse possible range of Jews from every age, stage, background, continent, and level of religiosity, become very widely shared. Images of the children’s Tikkun Haklalli gathering rarely make the news. The “main event”, Rosh HaShana itself, of course, cannot be captured at all. And so the primary elements of this kibbutz which feature some of the most beautiful, deep, and holy experiences of the Jewish world remain hidden behind the cheap facade of a singular focus on those hyper-specific scenes which, fortifying a pre-conceived impression (itself often a defense mechanism which protects against actually taking the time to explore what it is about this tzaddik and his teachings that attracts so many people and allows them to dig deeper in their lives and avodas Hashem) are most widely shared and roundly mocked. For the better or for the worse, like Reb Nosson wrote close to 200 years ago, “V’adayin ha’ohr ne’elam v’nistar.”