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I do not know how many readers have ever received a proposal to judgment above in heaven. Yet if there is judgment below, there How Do We Engage in a Personal Accounting in
to enter a billion-dollar business. If something like that happens, is no judgment above. One dare not miss such a chance. Hitbodedut?
it does so once in a lifetime. And even then, it requires a not-
inconsiderable investment of one’s own money and is extremely Rabbi Nachman of Breslov made a greater promise regarding It is very simple: tell the Creator of the world in your own words
risky. But now this is happening to you—yes, to you, you, the hitbodedut than he did regarding any of his other innovations. He everything that you have done since the hitbodedut of yesterday
reader. But although I call this the billion-dollar proposal, it is really promised that if a person recites the Tikun Haklali at his gravesite, until the hitbodedut of today. Regarding the good you have
infinitely more. I have no way to describe and evaluate the worth he will take that person out of Gehennom. But he promised that done, give thanks. And regarding the bad you have done, ask for
of this business. Therefore, in order to make it easier to relate to, a person who engages in hitbodedut will not even come to see the forgiveness and express regret, and ask the Creator to help you
I say a billion dollars. But whatever I say only diminishes the worth face of Gehennom. He will not be judged at all by heaven. not fail in these matters anymore. Such hitbodedut grants you
of the business and the entire package. atonement for everything. The Creator of the world tells you:
The holy Zohar highly praises a person who regularly engages in
Moreover, there is no need for any startup equity. It requires a personal accounting, and says that he cannot go to Gehennom. “When you judge yourself, I will forgive your sins every day.” You
experience a personal Yom Kippur that grants you atonement for
zero investment, and so is accessible to everyone. Yes, that is The Shem Mishmuel comments (Emor 5674): Whom does the all of your sins.
exactly right! And that isn’t all. This business comes with zero risk! holy Zohar promise that he will not go to Gehennom? A righteous
In other words, guaranteed, infinite profit with zero investment. “I person who engages in a personal accounting, or a person who has
have a good gift in My treasure house; come and take it” (Shabbat stumbled and transgressed, and engages in a personal accounting? A The Case Is Closed
10b). Please, precious children of Israel, listen and implement this, righteous person will certainly not go to Gehennom, because he is
and your souls will live. righteous and not only because he engages in a personal accounting. A person who does not engage in a daily hour of hitbodedut
Therefore, the holy Zohar must be speaking about a person who is experiences Yom Kippur once a year. But a person who does engage
Much More than the Garden of Eden not righteous, who is still stumbling and transgressing. He too, in in a daily hour of hitbodedut experiences a Yom Kippur every day.
the merit of making a personal accounting, of wanting and striving Every day he repents over everything that occurred from the Yom
to get out of his situation, will not go to Gehennom! Kippur of yesterday until the Yom Kippur of today. That is the
Rabbi Nachman of Breslov tried everything. He engaged in self- greatest gift in the world. Fortunate is the person who takes it.
afflictions and fasts as had never before been attempted or even Even while he is still in this world he will have the Garden of Eden,
heard of. There was no self-affliction that he did not perform. He A Powder Keg because a person suffers only because of his sins. A person who
said that in his agonies he could have bitten through a slab of wood. engages in hitbodedut every day wipes the slate clean every day.
He buried a wife and children, and he accepted upon himself severe Hitbodedut constitutes the most powerful discipline, advice and And there is no one more foolish and thoughtless than a person
and terrible diseases. And after all that, Rabbi Nachman of Breslov medicine. Nevertheless, many people have told me that although who does not take this gift—who does not engage in an hour of
discovered a much easier way, one that is accessible to everyone. every day they devote an hour to hitbodedut, to personal work hitbodedut.
Then he was sorry that he had afflicted and tormented himself for and to a personal accounting, and they feel astonishingly enhanced,
nothing, since he discovered a way that people could go on to be they do not see a fundamental change in themselves. They feel that What is this comparable to? To a person who is about to endure
like him literally, without breaking their bodies, without tormenting their desires and evil inclination still dominate them tremendously. a fateful judgment. Visualize and imagine in detail how he feels
themselves, without fasts and self-afflictions. It was important to the evening before this momentous verdict: his fears, his tension,
him that all of his prior afflictions and torments would not have The reason for that is precisely what we are learning about in this his insides churning within him. And now he is given the following
been in vain. Therefore, he communicated the final conclusions of book. It is true that they are engaged in the greatest practice, that proposal: devote an hour to tell everything that you did and to ask
his endeavors to whoever wants to listen and receive, to whoever they attain a tremendous rectification and that they earn Rabbi for forgiveness. Then, not only will you not be punished, but you
is even a little sincere, a littlewise, and to whoever has a little bit of Nachman’s promise. But they are not implementing the principal will not even be judged at all! Is there any sane person who would
acumen. True, Rabbi Nachman paid a high price—but he opened advice that changes a person fundamentally even as he is in this not leap at this bargain and grasp it with both his hands? Judgment
a very fine path for us. world. They are not doing the work of the will. Moreover, not only here upon the earth is nothing. It is literally child’s play compared
do they fail to see an essential change, but they are also in enormous