Tikkun Haklali

Tikkun Haklali from Rebbe Nacḥman of Breslov

Shared by Aarhon Varaday 

Before our hands can fix, we need to care. Before we can care, we need our eyes open. But how can we remind ourselves to see, and sustain our sensitivity and capability for compassion? We can shy from the pain that comes with empathy, and we can shy from the pain that comes with taking responsibility for the suffering we cause. But there are consequences to shying away, to disaffection and callous disassociation. If there is any hope, it is as Rebbe Nacḥman of Breslov explained so succinctly: “If you believe that you can damage, then believe that you can fix.”
The Psalms or Tehillim in Hebrew, are the core of Jewish liturgy; its poetry believed to be a treasury of theurgical power. Power to heal. Power to bring about intervention, if only in our own awareness. If every one of us is like a lonely world unto ourselves, then perhaps some shared songs can unite us, and reconnect us to the world we share together: healing it, liberating it, redeeming it with renewed compassion. This is the hope and promise of a devotional practice of reciting lyrics to songs with long lost and ever rediscovered melodies. Melodies which we can only discover through our own private readings of these ancient songs.
According to Pesaḥim 117a  there are ten kinds of songs in the Tehillim: Ashrei, Beracha, Maskil, Nitzuach, Shir, Niggun, Mizmor, Tefilla, Hoda’ah, and Halleluyah. In the early 19th century, Rebbe Nacḥman of Breslov, a great-grandson of the Baal Shem Tov, taught that the recitation of ten psalms, each representing one of these categories, could act as a Tikkun (remedy). Their recitation would help in a process of t’shuva leading to an awareness of the divine presence that permeates and enlivens this world but is alas, hidden though an accretion of transgressive thoughts and actions. On April 1810, Rebbe Naḥman revealed the specific ten psalms of this Tikkun to two of his closest disciples, Rabbi Aharon of Breslov and Rabbi Naftali of Nemirov, by making them witnesses to the following vow:

Bear witness to my words: When my days are over and I leave this world, I will still intercede for anyone who comes to my grave, says these ten Psalms, and gives a penny to charity. No matter how great the sins, I will do everything in my power, spanning the length and breadth of the creation to cleanse and protect them.
I am very positive in everything I say. But I am most positive in regard to the great benefit of these ten Psalms. These are the ten Psalms:

       16
     32, 41
   42, 59, 77 
90, 105, 137, 150 

 There is a specific remedy for each transgression, but this is the general remedy (tikkun haklali). Go out and spread the teaching of the ten Psalms to all.
Enjoy the beautiful melody of Tikkun Haklali below beloved, if you wish to watch it on full screen click on the youtube link and enlarge for full effect. May we all be blessed to heal as well as to be healed~Elisheva
 http://youtu.be/c9vGfZrSk_0