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Seventy Yells in the Mikvah
I
was staying in Meron for Shabbot. Friday afternoon me and my friend
Yitzchock hitched a ride to Saffsufa the ancient Mikvah of Shmayah and
Avtalyun. We jumped into the freezing water; I did my kavanot and got
out. As I got dressed I could hear Yitzchock yelling and screaming on
top of his lungs.
I
remembered that on the way to the Mikvah, Yitzchock repeated to me the
Torah of Rebbe Nachman. In the Torah Rebbe Nachman talks about the seventy
spiritual yells a women makes as she is giving birth, these correspond
to the Seventy Words in Mizmor Yancha (Palms 20). He then says that
this Chapter in Tehilim is a Tikun for Pgam Bris. Yitzchock must be
trying some crazy Tikun, immersing for each of the seventy yells.
I
am standing outside listening to the echoes of the screaming. A car
pulls up; some men get out to immerse in the Mikvah. They hear the sounds,
thinking someone is being murdered they quickly rush inside. A minute
latter they come out, "Oh, its just some crazy Breslever".
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