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My Brother

The cab driver had a shaved head and a scorpion tattooed on his neck. In his right ear, he sported a diamond-stud earring. He certainly wasn't from my part of the country…

Customs and Thought

Ask a Breslever

By Rabbi Lazer Brody
Update date: 5/16/2017, 09:15

A young man who didn't have much of an idea about G-d, Torah and Judaism was searching for some answers. He visited one of Ashdod's religious neighborhoods…

White and Bright

By David Perlow
Update date: 8/4/2015, 16:00

Why is a white shirt a metaphor for the soul? Day to day we go through so much emotional wear and tear that our souls really need to go to the cleaners…

Rebbe Natan's Rooster

By Rabbi Lazer Brody
Update date: 12/13/2015, 09:49

Each minute of Rebbe Natan's life was a priceless pearl that he guarded carefully; no wonder he accomplished so much in his lifetime of 65 years...

Who Are You, Really?

By Rivka Levy
Publish date: 10/20/2014, 11:50

After my family made teshuva, the outside changed a lot. But the inside? Not so much. No-one really talked to me about working on negative character traits...

The Original Sin

By Rivka Levy
Update date: 11/11/2015, 14:36

If you stick to Rebbe Nachman, and do an hour of hitbodedut (personal prayer) every single day, that you'll merit fixing every single one of your previous lifetimes...

The Key to Redemption

By Rabbi Shalom Arush
Update date: 4/1/2017, 22:16

We have the ability to bring the complete redemption simply and easily and without suffering, just by internalizing and understanding that everything is from Hashem...

How, Without my Rabbi?

By Rivka Levy
Update date: 4/22/2018, 11:26

We might like to pretend that we can work things out by ourselves, but we're really in a subjective darkness if we don't have the guiding light of our personal rabbi...

BTs, Breslev and Brainwash

By Rivka Levy
Update date: 3/9/2016, 14:46

You'd be hard-pressed to find a baal teshuva (newly observant Jew, or "BT") who hasn't been accused of being 'brainwashed' at some point in their life...

Breslever or Faker?

By Rivka Levy
Publish date: 5/3/2014, 22:44

The woman started muscling her way in to Rebbe Nachman's gravesite, shoving the other women aside...and did she ever yell, like a pack of demons in the Ukraine night...

Focusing on Me

By Reuven Levy
Publish date: 3/9/2014, 21:49

Many things are done in the name of "Breslev", but they're frequently far away or even total opposites of Rebbe Nachman's true teachings. Be careful...

The Wagon Master

By Natalie Kovan
Update date: 4/15/2017, 23:17

Many are the BTs who lament that their early education included Shakespeare and Plato rather than Abaye and Rava; those same BTs often outshine the Talmud scholars...

A Life for a Life

By Rabbi Shalom Arush
Update date: 5/7/2016, 23:33

The young lady who was active in spreading emuna never fathomed that by giving someone else an emuna book, she'd be saving her own life in the most unbelievable way...

The Cantonist's Scars

By Rabbi Lazer Brody
Update date: 11/28/2015, 21:20

The innkeeper warned the Chofetz Chaim, "Don't go near that coarse, scar-faced individual in the corner - he's very dangerous, and who know's what he'll do?"

Coming Clean

By Rivka Levy
Publish date: 1/13/2013, 22:01

I arrived to Breslev teachings so chock-full of misery and darkness, that if they can work for me and my life, they can certainly work for anyone else out there...

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