Likutei Moharan & Sichos HaRan Rebbe Nachman
Jul 1, 2026 · 42 min · 11 segments
Torah mandated etiquette
It says, Rabbi Nachman, Echad hayim edabri mo, or Rabbi Nosson's writing, there was a person speaking with Rabbi Nachman, v'hayim eshabech esi ish echad shem esnag b'yosher.
And this person, speaking to Rabbi Nachman, was praising another person, saying that he acted, shem esnag b'yosher, he acted in a straight way.
V'amra lov, and he said in, I guess it was Yiddish or whatever language it was, He called, right, the guy who was speaking to Rabbi Nachman spoke about another person calling him an adam yosher, a straight person, a person with morals, ethics, manners, whatever, etiquette, whatever you want to say.
He was a good person.
Rabbi Nachman answered back to this person who was speaking to him, and he said, On a Jew, you can't say he has, that he's an adam yosha, that he just has, you know, manners.
Or he's a proper person.
Why? Because the other nations, they have what we call nimusios.
Nimusa means, you know, manners, proper behavior.
based on what the seichel and the seichel based on logic natural understanding of the world there's certain ways of acting in an appropriate decent proper way that's called aren'tlich right shazenik are aren'tlich aval yisro am kadosh baklal yisro that was by the other nations baklal yisro they're a holy nation amachas kohanim am kadosh am kadosh even those mitzvahs that are incumbent upon a Jew that are called which we'll see and we understand it means it also will mean any mitzvah that is logical for example say at the end don't steal it's pretty obvious it's understood as a human being we don't steal it's your property A yid doesn't do them because of the derech eretz nature, that which is yosher, or he says, These mitzvahs are incumbent, they're obligating a person based on just straight, normal logic.
But because of the decree of the king of Kodesh Baruch Hu, that the Kodesh Baruch Hu commanded us in his Torah to do these things.
So you can't call him an aren'tlich, that he has manners, because that sounds like he's not doing it, or he's only doing it because his seichel, his logic says that's the appropriate thing.
It goes on, he says, this is what David the King meant when he said, The way of your mitzvahs, I will run to do.
To go in the ways of your mitzvahs, I'm going to run to do it.
But the Rebbe Nachman learns it a little bit differently.
Even those mitzvahs and those behaviors called derech, derech erech, the ways of the world, the known, understood ways of the world that even the goyim know.
Then even a Regular person, it's the way of the world and way of straight thinking to act in these ways.
Or anything else.
All other mitzvahs like that.
bound.
Nevertheless, mitzvosecha arutz.
Says Davana Melech, I'm not being mekaimit because it's logical, because it's proper manners and etiquette.
It says, Rabbi Nachman, Echad hayim edabri mo, or Rabbi Nosson's writing, there was a person speaking with Rabbi Nachman, v'hayim eshabech esi ish echad shem esnag b'yosher.
And this person, speaking to Rabbi Nachman, was praising another person, saying that he acted, shem esnag b'yosher, he acted in a straight way.
V'amra lov, and he said in, I guess it was Yiddish or whatever language it was, He called, right, the guy who was speaking to Rabbi Nachman spoke about another person calling him an adam yosher, a straight person, a person with morals, ethics, manners, whatever, etiquette, whatever you want to say.
He was a good person.
Rabbi Nachman answered back to this person who was speaking to him, and he said, On a Jew, you can't say he has, that he's an adam yosha, that he just has, you know, manners.
Or he's a proper person.
Why? Because the other nations, they have what we call nimusios.
Nimusa means, you know, manners, proper behavior.
based on what the seichel and the seichel based on logic natural understanding of the world there's certain ways of acting in an appropriate decent proper way that's called aren'tlich right shazenik are aren'tlich aval yisro am kadosh baklal yisro that was by the other nations baklal yisro they're a holy nation amachas kohanim am kadosh am kadosh even those mitzvahs that are incumbent upon a Jew that are called which we'll see and we understand it means it also will mean any mitzvah that is logical for example say at the end don't steal it's pretty obvious it's understood as a human being we don't steal it's your property A yid doesn't do them because of the derech eretz nature, that which is yosher, or he says, These mitzvahs are incumbent, they're obligating a person based on just straight, normal logic.
But because of the decree of the king of Kodesh Baruch Hu, that the Kodesh Baruch Hu commanded us in his Torah to do these things.
So you can't call him an aren'tlich, that he has manners, because that sounds like he's not doing it, or he's only doing it because his seichel, his logic says that's the appropriate thing.
It goes on, he says, this is what David the King meant when he said, The way of your mitzvahs, I will run to do.
To go in the ways of your mitzvahs, I'm going to run to do it.
But the Rebbe Nachman learns it a little bit differently.
Even those mitzvahs and those behaviors called derech, derech erech, the ways of the world, the known, understood ways of the world that even the goyim know.
Then even a Regular person, it's the way of the world and way of straight thinking to act in these ways.
Or anything else.
All other mitzvahs like that.
bound.
Nevertheless, mitzvosecha arutz.
Says Davana Melech, I'm not being mekaimit because it's logical, because it's proper manners and etiquette.
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