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| Bullseye |
| By Rabbi Lazer Brody |
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| One must invest years of effort and training to become a champion archer, but a slouch first shoots a random arrow and then paints a bullseye wherever the arrow lands… |
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| The Same Boat |
| By Rivka Levy |
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| The ditch-digger losers his diamond, but he continues to sing and dance; if he doesn’t, he’ll lose his life. We’re all in that same boat... |
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| I’m Not a Breslever! |
| By Rivka Levy |
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| People like to tell themselves, “I’m not a Breslever, so all that stuff about talking to Hashem and having emuna really doesn’t apply to me...” |
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| The Emuna Garden |
| By Rivka Levy |
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| Rabbi Nachman teaches that before one starts to do hitbodedut, and to make a real accounting of his actions, he can think that there’s nothing much to fix. |
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| Sheer simplicity |
| By Rivka Levy |
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| When people want to use their brains, instead of simply doing what Hashem wants, they are really saying: “If it doesn’t make sense to me, it can’t be right...” |
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| Learning for the Wrong Reasons |
| By Rebbe Natan of Breslev |
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| This week, on Sunday, is the yahrtzeit, the 165th anniversary of Rebbe Natan of Breslev’s departure from this physical world. Here is a taste of his timeless words… |
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| Don’t Be Hard on Yourself |
| By Rebbe Natan of Breslev |
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| A negative spiritual force (klippa) wants you to be hard on yourself, so you’ll adopt all kinds of stringencies; that’s only evil’s ploy to try and rob you of your joy… |
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| Winter Torah Study |
| By Rebbe Natan of Breslev |
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| The Torah we learn, especially during the long winter nights, actually dictates the course of nature and invokes abundance, best of all the blessings of rain and dew… |
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| Folly and Adultery |
| By Rebbe Natan of Breslev |
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| In elaborating on the episode of the wayward wife, Rebbe Natan explains that non-Torah ideologies can lead to a spirit of folly that leads to sexual misdemeanor… |
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| Holiness and Wealth |
| By Rebbe Natan of Breslev |
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| Since the Cohanim have more mitzvoth requiring a greater level of holiness than the rest of the nation, they attain greater wealth than the rest of the nation… |
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| Seder and the Four Cups |
| By Rebbe Natan of Breslev |
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| When a G-d-fearing person drinks wine, his heart is awakened with a vigorous yearning for Hashem. When one drinks for the sake of the mitzva, wine gladdens the heart… |
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| Searching for Chametz |
| By Rebbe Natan of Breslev |
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| The purpose of the search is to remove the chametz, which represents the sitra achra (incorporation of evil forces) – from which arises all earthly desires… |
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| Come on Home! |
| By Rabbi Shalom Arush |
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| The Yetzer doesn’t want you attaining your soul correction, so he fights to keep you away from here and gives you fifty reasons to remain in the Diaspora. |
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| Mission: Hafatza |
| By Rabbi Yitzchak Breiter z"l |
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| “Hafatza” – spreading Rebbe Nachman’s teachings around the globe – is our central task in the epoch of Moshiach. Every home deserves a taste the sweetness of Breslev... |
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| The Breslever Daily Agenda, Part 2 |
| By Rabbi Yitzchak Breiter z"l |
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| Breslever Chassidim are early risers. They are also devoted Torah learners who speak to Hashem every single day, as we see in part two of the Breslever Daily Agenda. |
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