RABBI SHLOMO CARLEBACH THE AIR OF ISRAEL

Compiled and edited by Ziv Ritchie Rebbe Nachman says, imagine, G-d forbid, someone is on life support, he is breathing oxygen. How much is this person alive? He is alive, right? Even if a person is chas veshalom on life support, he is also a little bit alive, but nebuch, do you want to live like this? No, chas veshalom. Then you take a person who is mamish healthy and strong like a lion. He is alive. Do you know, the life energy which is coming down in Chutz Laaretz [outside of Israel], and the life energy which is coming down in Eretz Yisrael, is like a person who is living and breathing, and the other one is on oxygen. We are not on the level to feel it. Even in Eretz Yisrael we are not strong enough to feel it. Rebbe Nachman says that the life energy which is coming down in Eretz Yisrael is something else. Something else… Why is it that Eretz Yisrael is even more important than freedom? Listen to this; is there anything deeper than, ‘I want to be alive?’ I think that when I am breathing and I am hanging around that I am alive. No. A Yid knows that there is something available which is really meant for me: mamish, mamish, mamish to be alive. Mamish to be alive.