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Li'l Avi plays the drum. Na Nach! woohoo!!



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My "Abba" and an Ethiopian Jewish Na Nach. Na Nachim!!

Na nach nachma nachman m'Uman!!!

Lighting Your Precious Candles

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Well, what do you use to light up your seven precious candles?

The best oil is olive oil!

According to Rebbe Nachman, in Likutey Moharan lesson #21 we all have seven precious candles. These candles are our eyes, our ears, two nostrils and our mouth. When we use pure, clean oil to illuminate these candles that means we are checking what we take in --good books, good blog posts, positive, useful information, good tidings, important tidings, good food, fragrant or cool air, etc. When it is said that unclean, dirty oil is used, its as if we are putting shmutzy, trashy, junky, gossipy, disgraceful movies, songs, pictures, bad smells into ourselves.

It can be worthwhile to use good, healthy oil for illuminating these candles because a well lit face brings us to grace from The Holy One, Blessed be He and also the intellect can more easily absorbs information (the channels are not clogged up by falsehood, hurtful info, and the like).

Now who wouldn't want that?

It goes further. There are two kinds of knowledge. The one that is inside the brain already and the one that hoovers around us waiting to be let in. Let's give these two names. The one that's inside us already, we'll call absorbed knowledge; the kind that is not yet processed yet, we'll call floating knowledge (in Hebrew its called makif. Should I use the Hebrew?)

Using my favorite mascot, Karen. Say Karen is waiting to absorb some floating knowledge. For the time being she's just not getting it.

The floating knowledge x, y, and z are buzzing around her. She can't really see it, but its there. Some of it is so pure, so refined that unless Karen refines her seven candles, she may not be able to absorb all of it.

This floating knowledge of x, y, and z can also be called her "garments" because they hoover around her like a coat.

There was once a thug who was waiting for a girl to pass by to hurt her. He hid behind a bush and prepared for his ambush.  Luckily, that girl decided to wear a disguise. She wore something different than what she already had. Thus, when she passed by the thug behind the bush, she was unrecognizable and was able to pass unharmed!

Another good reason for illuminating our candles and absorbing new knowledge is that we eliminate the old "garment" around us and have a brand new garment unrecognizable than before. Thus, we can experience life quite differently than before.  The "thugs" won't recognize the new garment and we pass unharmed; that is to say, old naysayers and previous hurtful words and haters can not effect us because they are chasing after the wrong garments.

(hmmm, perhaps that explains why kids are always putting things in their mouths! lol. Forever learning, absorbing from the outside and bringing it in)

The concept of "garment" is too deep and I don't think I would do it justice to explain any further.

So to sum it all up: using pure oil to make your candles shine bright -i.e. using proper speech, no cuss words, not breathing hot air of anger, keeping cool, seeing good and hearing good- is beneficial in that it allows you to absorb knowledge faster. As you keep absorbing new knowledge and more knowledge, you get wise. You receive grace and you leave your enemies powerless.  

Y-Love Coming to Israel

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Not sure if the rumors are true, but I heard Y-Love has become Na nach! Also, I heard he's coming to Tsfat to meet the gang. That should be interesting! Must think up a shidduch/match for him. ***puts on matchmaker hat** lol!

Please God, don't turn him away empty handed...

Na nach nachma nachman m'uman!!

Harps, King David and the Last (New) Song

Website on harps and King David.

In the video the lady talks about the "last song". There are 9 songs in the Bible.

Song 1: What Adam sang when he realized he IS.

Song 2:Miriam and the women dancing in a circle singing the "song at the sea" when they were saved miraculously.

{the rest can be found at the 10 Shirot site}

Everytime a great event happens, its capped with a song.

There is much speculation what this last and final song is suppose to be. Some say its the "Na Nach Nachma Nachman M'Uman" chant. She gives a nice explanation of what she thinks it will be!

Gilles Marini

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Well I went to visit some Na Nach friends to say hello and they told me an incredible story.

An actor by the name of Gilles Marini came across a Na Nach (a friend of that family) and they began to talk. They spoke about Rebbi Nachman (my favorite rabbi) and Israel Odesser (aka Saba). He was so taken by the story (at some point I'll write the story here) he decided to buy a kamea (a necklace).

He wears his Na Nach kamea always and figured perhaps it will help him enter the Dancing w/the Stars show. He wears it pretty prominently as you can see in the YouTube.

You can also read about the kamea from Gilles' website (under "friends").

Neat.

Have You Hugged a Special Person Today?

I could be wrong...but I think there may be a nephew waiting, or perhaps a niece... An aunt, a mother, a father... a spouse... some giggly children just waiting for today's hug! Are you too busy? Naw, I don't think so. Go ahead, spread some compassion, some kindness!



Okay, how about just a shout out to a friend by telephone? (don't these guys act like Na nachim? Na Nachim are these Jewish guys with white kippahs who go around dancing and jumping on street corners.)



Here are some Na Nachim:



Funny thing about them, there always trying to get others to dance too!

Quick Israeli story:

I was on a bus heading back to my dorm. There was a bum in the back of the bus just making noise and singing his head off. I could see from the rear view mirror, the bus driver was keeping an eye on him. Others kept glancing back as well. At this time, I was new in Israel. I knew people could get very emotional and loud and wasn't sure what to expect. I waited hesitantly for the "big brawl" to get him out of the bus.

Finally one man got up. He marched over to the back of the bus. I watched wide eyed. He got to the bum and said, "Do you know such -and such a song?"

The bum replied, "yes." and sang the requested song. Afterwards, others began to put in their request to the bum.