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Recently I’ve been having trouble sleeping at night (again). Obviously the late-night hours affects my productivity the next day, because...

Reish Lakish says (Bereishis Rabba 80:7) that Hashem expressed his love of the Jews using three expressions: בדביקה, בחשיקה, ובחפיצה....

The holy Zohar characterizes Teshuva as “Throwing something back to the place where it was taken”.  Just like if a thief wants to make...

I look so small against those tall trees, don’t I? Let me paraphrase a lesson from Reb Nosson (Pikadon 5:7) “If a person would believe...

In the story of the Burgher and the Pauper, Rebbe Nachman alludes to the series of obstacles the soul of Moshiach undertakes before our...

Every year on Yom Hashoah we remember the Nazi genocide of European Jewry during WWII. Much has been written about the holocaust and,...

It’s commonplace to question what our personal role is in this world? Of course we’re all here to serve Hashem and perform his mitzvos,...

Rebbe Nachman tells a story about a prince and the son of a maid who were exchanged at birth. The maid’s son becomes king and finds out...

“Let me tell you what I saw and you can tell it to your children: A man was lying on the ground and people were sitting around him in a...

I remember, shortly after we moved to Israel, commenting that it seems we need to play a different role in serving God here than outside...

The holy Reb Aharon from Karlin was once eating an apple when one of his chassidim brashly asked him, “Rebbe, I don’t understand! You eat...