2) The next day Rebbe Nachman received word that he was invited to reside in Uman. Rabbi Nosson writes that Rebbe Nachman turned pale when the message arrived, as he knew that he was being summoned to die in Uman.
3) On 3 Iyar the Rebbe departed from Breslov. He was in particular haste, and he refused to stop for longing anywhere on the way, despite rainfall and generally bad weather.
4) On 5 Iyar Rebbe Nachman entered Uman.
5) 30 days later, on Shavuos, he became an halachic resident of Uman.
6) 58 days later ("Chen") he reached the Yahrtzeit of the Arizal (5 Menachem-Av)
7) 72 days later ("Chessed") he departed on 18 Tishray 5571.
8) 101 days later ("Micha-el") Rabbi Nosson prayed on Rebbe Nachman's grave for the first time, on Rosh Chodesh Shevat.
9) Exactly 138 years ("Tzemach") after Rebbe Nachman first entered Uman, the State of Israel was born, on 5 Iyar 5708. (This was with the full sanction of the Goyim, for all you Satmarers out there, as I heard explicitly from Rabbi Odesser. The UN vote for Jews to return to their homeland, and does not violate the warning "not to climb on the wall," that the Satmar Rebbe zatzal wrote about. The fact that the Arab nations voted against partition does not matter, since according to the rules of the UN at that time, a binding majority of world nations voted to create a Jewish State.)
10) This year (5 Iyar 5760) will mark 190 years ("Keitz") since Rebbe Nachman first entered into Uman. On Shabbas occurred to me the following thought (this is my own idea, be'ezrat Hashem):
a) When Rebbe Nachman's son Shlomo Ephraim died, he was very devastated. He implied that this son was meant to have been Moshiach, and now that he had died the Final Redemption would be greatly delayed.b) The First Redemption from Egypt under Moshe Rabbeinu took place 190 years earlier than the 400 years prophesied to Avraham at the Bris Bein Habesarim.
c) This is what the Haggadah means when it says that Hashem "calculated the Keitz": meaning He deducted 190 years from the decreed 400 years of servitude due to the terrible suffering of the Israelites in Egypt.
d) Now 30 years before that, the Tribe of Ephraim managed to break out of Egypt (a near-impossible feat), but they all were killed when they tried to enter Eretz Yisroel. This is the meaning of Hashem taking Am Yisroel on the long route through the Desert,
and not the direct route through the Land of the Pelishtim, lest they "see a war and become afraid," meaning lest they see the bonesof their brothers from Ephraim, which the Canaanim purposely had left unburied in order to frighten the rest of Benei Yisroel
when they would try to enter the Land of Israel.e) Now this "hurrying the Keitz" by shortening the Exile by 190 years actually caused many Yidden to be lost forever in Egypt. They remembered the tragedy that had befallen Ephraim (who had their own calculation for hastening the Redemption) and were afraid that even if Moshe Rabbeinu could bring them out of Egypt, still the time was too early and they would be killed on the borders of Eretz Yisroel by the Canaanim. (This actually is the root of most of the rebellions against Moshe Rabbeinu in the Wilderness, and the story of the Spies: the memory and deep fear of the fate of the Tribe of Ephraim. Just because they could escape from Egypt was no guarantee that they merited entering the Land of Israel!)
f) It is known in Chassidic and Mystical circles that the Final Redemption will include everyone. No one will be left behind. (This is a famous Chabad slogan.)
g) Perhaps to "atone" for the tragedy that occurred in Egypt when 80% of the Yidden died in Egypt because they feared to leave with Moshe Rabbeinu, therefore davka we have to wait "Keitz" years (190) from the death of Rebbe Nachman in Uman for the Final Redemption to occur.
h) And note that this all is associated with the premature death of the Rebbe's son Shlomo EPHRAIM.
i) Please note all you Kanoyim out there against "Chilunim," "Tzionim," etc. that those who failed to heed Moshe Rabbeinu in Egypt were relatively "frum," in the sense that they knew of the Prophecy to Avraham and believed in it and could not accept that the time for the Redemption had arrived earlier than planned.These "Frum Chachamim" davka were the ones who failed to leave Egypt with Moshe-Moshiach, all because they could not believe that the time for the Redemption already had arrived…..
ii) Yehi Ratzon sheNizke kulanu le bittul gamur be'emet LeTzaddik HaEmet.
iii) Yehi ratzon she'nizke kulanu betoch kol Am Yisroel laGe'ula Sheleimah chish kal meheira Amen!