After Rabeinu’s attendant meets two people traveling back from Israel to Ukraine, they begin to question the motives of the man who this attendant is traveling with… they have no idea it is Rabeinu!

Rabeinu begins his journey from Odessa to Instanbul…

As Rabeinu got out of the mikveh on Erev Pesach 5558, he made it known that he would certainly be in the land of Israel that year.

Rabeinu had to leave his family behind and sell everything in his house for this necessary journey.

We discuss Rabeinu’s start to this long and treacherous journey.

We begin with Rabeinu traveling to Kamenitz, where not a single person knows what he did there!

Rabeinu then returns home only to dismiss all the reasons and intentions people gave for his journey…

Anybody can reach the highest levels of holiness, it’s all dependent on hard work and effort!

Rebbe Nathan explains what we need to do in order to achieve spiritual greatness and how we need to put all our force in prayer and hitbodedut.

We discuss more on Rabeinu’s humility and how he took upon himself tremendous suffering to attain control over all his desires/emotions!

We’ll discuss how Rabeinu worked on himself until he broke the desire for eating, how he subdued his anger, and how he attained the highest level of humility!

We discuss a few different ideas: Rabeinu’s awesome sexual purity, his awesome acts of Divine service during the winter time, and his childhood habit to pray on the kever of the Ba’al Shem Tov!

Rebbe Nathan tells us how Rabeinu put all his concentration on breaking the universal desire (sexual desire) at a young age, until he got to the point where for him there was no difference between a man and a woman!

Rabeinu tells us that we too can do this EASILY!

14: All the service Rabeinu wanted to do every single day was very difficult on him, but them he would tell himself that all he had was today! This mentality is what brought Rabeinu the strength to accomplish everything he did.

15: Rabeinu would make many vows, sometimes even oaths holding holy objects, to accomplish holy acts or prevent himself from evil traits!