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Rav Moshe Weinberger said over such a great little insight into the story of the seven beggars this past week in the Rebbe Nachman...

Today I went to the beach and I saw a sailboat. It reminded me of times in my childhood when my family used to go to a little inn on a...

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

“The reason why the world is far from Hashem…is ONLY because they don’t have yishuv hadaas, [the ability to unite with their “present...

Rebbe Nachman said many times that the essential tool in ascending in Avodas Hashem is simcha, real joy. So much of what the rebbe taught...

In Torah 25, Rebbe Nachman writes about spiritually ascending from level to level. He says that at the entrance, so to speak, of every...

“You should know, [Hashem’s] presence fills the entire earth and there is no place that is empty of Him…Even if someone does business...

Is there an end in sight to all of our struggling? In Torah 72, Rebbe Nachman teaches thought even a complete victory over the physical...

On a recent road trip I organized with some friends in Northern Israel, it became all too clear that executing the entire itinerary was a...

This is my one hundredth post on this blog! King David called his hundredth Psalm “A song of thanks”, so I’d like to also take this...

The Holy Arizal said that he merited his exalted levels of Divine spirit from all of his toil to find joy in performing mitzvos. How does...

Why do we replay old uncomfortable episodes in our heads time and again? Granted, we’re not that happy with how we acted or reacted, but...

“Greatness isn’t about accomplishing more, but about fully appreciating what you already accomplish.” –  Davy Dombrowsky It’s hard to be...

In Tinyana 24 the Rebbe lit up the world with the famous words that we can’t live without: “מצוה גדולה להיות בשמחה תמיד” “It’s a great...

Today is the yahrtzeit of Rabbi Yisrael Dov Ber Odesser z”l, known as Sabba Yisrael. He was the leader of the Na Nach movement who died...

“You should know that every type of wisdom in the world has a unique song. In fact, it’s from that particular song, where we draw the...

The Talmud describes the events at Mt. Sinai. “When the Jews said they would perform the mitzvos even before they heard what the mitzvos...

One of the basic tenets of coming back to God is confession. (Maimonides, Laws of Repentance 1:1). In Torah 178 Rebbe Nachman astutely...

Rebbe Nachman tells a story of a certain tzaddik who became so depressed that he couldn’t get out of bed. He tried whatever possible to...

It’s really very simple. We all want the same thing. We just want to be happy. In fact, even our limited understanding of the next world...