Tzohar

In Isaiah 60 we read:

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5 Then you shall see, and flow together, and your heart shall be startled and expanded; because the abundance of the west shall be converted unto you, the select of the gentiles shall come unto you.

10 The children of foreigners shall build your walls...
11 Therefore your gates shall be open continually; they shall not be shut day nor night; that people may bring unto you the select of the nations, and that their leaders may be brought.

Now all the material wealth and all the service that those who separate out of the nations to build up the walls of the holiness of Israel and Jerusalem will bring will in the end turn out to only be bribery and flattery if it is not accompanied with prayers and blessings for Israel and for Jerusalem. But prayers that are offered without understanding of the holiness of Israel cannot be received.

Rabbi Nachman in his teaching entitled, Tzohar, states: “A person must elevate his prayer to the gate of his tribe, because if it reaches the gate of another tribe, it cannot ascend.”

Since gentiles shall labor upon the walls of the holiness of Jerusalem below they shall also elevate the walls of the holiness of Jerusalem above. And for this reason the gates of the walls shall always be open.

It is certain, therefore, that the gentiles who separate out of the nations to build up the walls of the holiness of Jerusalem shall learn the knowledge of the corporate wholeness of Israel, the knowledge of the unity of the twelve tribes, and shall learn to recognize the gate of the tribe where they should each, as various gentiles, attach their prayers of blessing. Only then when they have learned these things will their prayers be holy and received and bring true wealth into the heart of Israel.

The New Universe

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Look! Is there anyone among you who can see this? The old universe is passed away. Everything that was in it is made new. The universe was very tiny in comparison with the Torah of the Creator. The new universe stretches out to reach for the full dimensions of the Torah! The old, tiny universe expanded like a bubble whose skin grew thinner and thinner, until it could not exist anymore. Its Creator said, "Enough! Now you will die and live with me." Now the new universe expands in the eternal expansion of the glory of joy, for it is always preceded in its joy by the pathways of the Torah of the Limitless Eternal One.

Look! Before there were damages. But see! In the new universe there are no damages. The beauty of limitations remain as the inheritance of every created soul. But now the Torah burns with love in the core of every soul and no clash will ever arise again. Every ear is learning. Every eye is looking ahead on behalf of the neighboring body and soul. Every soul is watching with understanding the Torah of Israel's Lamb, and acting with humble self-control ahead of the movement where before, long ago, in the universe of good and evil, damages could have occurred. Now, where damages might have occurred before, loving mitzvot always occur. Look! See! Forever and ever, world without end, responsibility grows. For the new universe is a universe of ever growing Torah knowledge and ever growing Torah love.

Is there nothing lost? Is there nothing missed from the universe that has passed away? The righteousness of rectification is lost, for no need for rectification will ever arise again. But this form of righteousness is not missed for it is retained in songs of redemption, songs that are sung at every step and every level of Torah learning by every soul, from the least to the greatest. These are the songs of memory. These are the songs from the foundation of the world, the world now redeemed, the world now learning Torah with every breath, the stars now redeemed, the planets now redeemed, the children of Israel, adopted and natural born, and all their flocks and herds, fish and angels now redeemed and filling the heavens and the earth. There is nothing lost.