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| "Calming Waters": The Healing Flute |
| By Tal Rotem |
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| Tal Rotem interviews Rabbi Lazer Brody about his new original-music CD, "Calming Waters," an exquisite collection of music for the soul, played on native American flutes… |
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| A Song is Born |
| By Tal Rotem |
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| Breslev Israel correspondent Tal Rotem caught Yosef Karduner and Lazer Brody together recently at a Bar Mitzva, and heard the amazing story about the birth of a song… |
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| Black is Beautiful |
| By Tal Rotem |
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| Nissim "Damian" Black grew up on the tough side of the street in South Seattle. His music used to be just as violent as his neighborhood, but he's brought it all into Judaism… |
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| Blessing of the Trees |
| By Tal Rotem |
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| On Rosh Chodesh Nissan, we begin to say Birkat Hailanot, the blessing of the trees. It's also Rebbe Nachman's birthday. What's the connection between the two? |
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| Breslev Presley |
| By Tal Rotem |
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| A Breslev version of Elvis? Nachman Fahrner exemplifies Rebbe Nachman's desire that we bring everything that's "us"- even the mud on our shoes - into the service of Hashem… |
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| Breslev’s Sweet Singer |
| By Tal Rotem |
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| Breslev correspondent Tal Rotem interviews one of Israel’s brightest music lights, Yosef Karduner. A Breslever chassid through and through, Yosef is first and foremost... |
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| Breslever Shabbat Songs |
| By Tal Rotem |
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| The Breslev Chassidic movement is famous for its treasury of rich and varied melodies. Music has always held a central part in the Breslev community… |
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| Fearless Frogs |
| By Tal Rotem |
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| We can learn much from Hanania, Mishael, and Azaria who preferred to be thrown in a fiery furnace rather than bow down to an idol. They learned from the frogs... |
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| A Special Kindness |
| By Tal Rotem |
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| After his thousands of pupils died for not properly respecting one another, Rebbe Akiva started all over with seven special pupils, one of whom was Eliezer Ben Yaacov… |
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| Aliya - Why so Tough? |
| By Tal Rotem |
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| Many of those who have made abortive Aliya attempts come back to the West and tell horror stories that scare away anyone other than the lion-hearted who long for Zion… |
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| G-d of Rebbe Meir, Answer Me! |
| By Tal Rotem |
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| Pesach Sheni, the fourteenth of Iyar, is also the yahrtzeit of Rebbe Meir Baal HaNess, whose ability to invoke miracles is still at our disposal today… |
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| Emuna Therapy |
| By Tal Rotem |
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| Dr. Zev Ballen combines the lessons of emuna with his expertise in psychotherapy in his amazingly effective emuna therapy, based on the teachings of Rabbi Shalom Arush… |
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| David and the Syrian Goliath |
| By Tal Rotem |
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| Tel Facher was the site of an impregnable Syrian bunker, which made the lives of Galilee residents miserable for almost two decades; this was the key to taking the Golan… |
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| Here to Stay |
| By Tal Rotem |
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| Suppose you had no troubles in life, no enemies on the borders and all the health and livelihood you need. How would you describe such a dreamy life? |
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| Loving Lenience |
| By Tal Rotem |
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| The young man was adamant - he wanted a divorce! His wife had failed failed to observe the gebroks custom; she let a few drops of water touch a piece of matza... |
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