After seventy years asleep, the viceroy wakes up and asks, heichan ani ba'olam, "Where am I in the world?" Those words can sound like giving up. Sung with a different niggun, they become the strongest chizuk there is. In this chaburah on Rebbe Nachman's story of the Lost Princess, we read the scene of the kerchief written in tears and look at why the servant answers so differently after each fall. First the viceroy goes to her. Then she comes to him, shakes him, and still can't wake him. We also learn: • Why every hirhur teshuvah is the lost princess calling from inside you, and why we keep squashing it • Hashem's Ayekah to Adam: knowing where you are before you start again • The "shmutziger Ribbono Shel Olam" and why the outlet is always on the bottom • Why a plugged-in toaster oven is worth more than an unplugged supercomputer • Korban, the Hebrew word for victim, and letting go of blaming the messenger • B'simcha has the letters of machshavah: joy is a state, not a feeling, and its source is your chelek Elokah mima'al We close by taking on Tikkun HaKlali together and davening for one another. #LostPrincess #RebbeNachman #Breslov #Breslev #RabbiNachman #SippureiMaasiyos #Torah #Chassidus #Teshuvah #Simcha #Hisbodedus #Uman #JewishInspiration #Emunah #TorahShiur #Chizuk #JewishWisdom #Kabbalah #Neshama #TikkunHaklali

Before learning the first Torah in Likutey Moharan, we hear the stories behind it. A man came to Rebbe Nachman in Medvedevka and complained that his prayers weren't being answered. He saw it because he had no chen or chashivus among the people of his town, who didn't respect his long davening. The Rebbe told him to learn something right after davening, Mishnah or Gemara, and promised that his tefillah would be accepted and that he would find chen in the eyes of Hashem and people. The man came back: "My learning doesn't light my way like the sun." The Rebbe answered: "If only it would light for you at least like the moon first. Then it will shine like the sun." When he came a third time, full of simcha, the Rebbe revealed this Torah and said: "Vos hot a mentsh tsu ton af der velt? Nor davnen, un lernen, un davnen." What does a person have to do in this world? Only davnen, learn, and davnen. • Why the first 15 Torahs of Likutey Moharan are on the stories of Rabbah bar bar Chanah, and how Rabbah bar bar Chanah himself came to the Rebbe and asked him to reveal their secrets • Why Reb Nosson didn't hear Ashrei Temimei Derech directly from the Rebbe, and how he put the text together • "Davnen, learn, and davnen": why not "learn, davnen, and learn"? • The three visits of the man from Medvedevka: chen, the sun, and the moon • Learn Torah b'koach, in simplicity, and the yetzer hara will be subdued • Reb Nosson's own struggle: losing his chen with his family after coming close to the Rebbe, and how this Torah fixed everything • "Going with a Torah": turning the learning into tefillah and hisbodedus We should merit to keep this Torah in complete simplicity, to learn and to do. #RebbeNachman #LikuteyMoharan #Breslov #Torah #Tefillah #Chen #Chassidus #ReiNosson#RebbeNachmanOfBreslov #BreslovChassidus #LikuteiMoharan #Uman #TorahShiur #JewishLearning #Prayer #Hisbodedus #Hitbodedut #Simplicity #Emunah #Judaism #Spirituality #Faith #JewishWisdom

| R’ Moshe Chaim Eade — Shiur 4What if the deepest wisdom in life is learning to recognize Hashem within everything we experience?In Shiur 4 on Likutei Moharan, Torah Alef, R’ Moshe Chaim Eade explores Rebbe Nachman's teaching of seichel sheb'chol davar—the Divine wisdom hidden within all of creation.Through the deeper meaning of Yaakov and Esav, the concept of Chochmah, and the spiritual significance of the bechorah, we discover how Torah teaches us to look beyond external appearances and uncover the Divine purpose at the heart of life.R’ Moshe Chaim also explores the relationship between Chochmah and spiritual vitality, why Hashem's light can feel overwhelming, and how the first step toward genuine connection is recognizing the Divine presence within each experience.An inspiring exploration of finding meaning, illumination, and greater closeness to Hashem in everyday life.Likutei Cafe | Likutei Moharan, Torah Alef | Shiur 4 | R’ Moshe Chaim Eade

| R’ Yirmi Ginsberg — Shiur 2Why do we sometimes daven every day without feeling truly connected to Hashem? And what does Rebbe Nachman mean when he teaches that through Torah, our tefillos are received?In Shiur 2 on Likutei Moharan, Torah Alef, R’ Yirmi Ginsberg explores the deeper meaning of Torah, the true nature of tefillah, and the hidden seichel—Divine wisdom and vitality—that exists within everything.Through an in-depth exploration of Rebbe Nachman's precise language, we discover that Torah is not simply about acquiring knowledge, and tefillah is not merely about asking for what we need. Both are pathways toward genuine closeness and deveikus with HaKadosh Baruch Hu.R’ Yirmi also explores the spiritual wisdom of Yaakov Avinu, the four stages of uncovering Divine meaning, and how recognizing the inner purpose of davening can transform our experience of prayer.A powerful invitation to rediscover the heart of tefillah and develop a deeper, more meaningful relationship with Hashem.Likutei Moharan, Torah Alef | Shiur 2 | R’ Yirmi Ginsberg

| R’ Shlomo Karmely — Shiur 2The sun shines with its own light, while the moon reflects the light it receives. Rebbe Nachman teaches that this relationship reveals something profound about our own connection to Hashem.In Shiur 2 on Likutei Moharan, Torah Alef, R’ Shlomo Karmely explores the deeper meaning of chein, the relationship between Chochmah and Malchus, and the essential role of emunah in receiving Divine wisdom.Through stories of tzaddikim and the teachings of Pnimiyus HaTorah, we discover that we don't need to fully comprehend the spiritual significance of every mitzvah to connect with its holiness. Sometimes the greatest spiritual work begins with simple faith.R’ Shlomo also explores the deeper meaning of the moon's diminished light, the distinction between Yaakov and Esav, and how genuine spiritual growth comes from balancing the pursuit of Divine wisdom with humility, patience, and emunah.An illuminating exploration of how to experience greater meaning, vitality, and simcha in everyday Jewish life.Likutei Moharan, Torah Alef | Shiur 2 | R’ Shlomo Karmely

What if true happiness doesn't come from having more, achieving more, or getting everything you want—but from learning to see Hashem in everything you already have?In Shiur 4 on Likutei Moharan, Torah Alef, R’ David Reboh explores Rebbe Nachman's profound teaching about chein—the true Divine grace that comes from living with a constant awareness of Hashem.Drawing on the teachings of R’ Gedaliah Koenig and the deeper meaning of the letters ח and נ, R’ David explains how Torah gives us the ability to look beyond the surface of life and recognize the Divine wisdom hidden within every experience.Through powerful stories of tzaddikim and the contrast between Yaakov and Esav, we discover the difference between chasing worldly importance and pursuing genuine closeness to Hashem.Why do we experience setbacks? What is the relationship between spiritual growth and material success? And how can even traffic, business challenges, and ordinary daily responsibilities become opportunities to connect with Hashem?In this shiur:The deeper meaning of chein and chashivusWhy true happiness comes from closeness to HashemDiscovering Divine wisdom beneath the surface of everyday lifeThe difference between Yaakov and Esav's approaches to this worldUnderstanding wealth, success, and material blessings through TorahHow life's challenges can become opportunities for spiritual growthBringing the teachings of Likutei Moharan into hitbodedus and daily lifeDiscover how to stop living on the surface and begin experiencing the deeper beauty, meaning, and Divine presence within everything.Likutei Moharan • Torah Alef • Shiur 4Subscribe for more shiurim exploring the teachings of Rebbe Nachman and Pnimiyus HaTorah.#LikuteiMoharan #RebbeNachman #DavidReboh #Breslov #Chassidus #Emunah #PnimiyusHaTorah

| R’ Moshe Leventer — Torah Alef Shiur 1What does it mean to find true beauty and meaning in Yiddishkeit? And how can our Torah learning change the way we experience Hashem in our everyday lives?In this introduction to Likutei Moharan, Torah Alef, R’ Moshe Leventer explores Rebbe Nachman's teachings on chein, the hidden seichel within everything, and the profound connection between Torah and tefillah.Through practical guidance on Torah lishmah, Torah b'koach, and establishing consistent daily learning, we discover how even small commitments to Torah can strengthen our emunah, awaken our tefillos, and help us recognize the holiness within ordinary moments.An inspiring invitation to move beyond distraction and routine, rediscover the sweetness of Yiddishkeit, and build a genuine, lasting connection with Hashem.Likutei Moharan, Torah Alef | R’ Moshe Leventer

R’ David Reboh — Torah Alef Shiur 3What if the ordinary moments of your day are actually opportunities for Hashem to communicate something meaningful to you?In Shiur 3 on Likutei Moharan, Torah Alef, R’ David Reboh explores one of Rebbe Nachman's foundational teachings: “להסתכל בהשכל של כל דבר”—to look for the hidden wisdom within everything.Every encounter, every experience, and every situation contains a deeper spiritual reality. But recognizing that Hashem is behind everything is only the beginning. Rebbe Nachman teaches us to go further—to discover how those experiences relate to our own lives and how they can guide us toward a closer relationship with Hashem.Through powerful stories of tzaddikim, personal experiences, and practical examples of Hashgacha Pratis, R’ David explains how Torah develops our spiritual awareness, transforms the way we see the world, and brings us closer to the true chein—the Divine grace that elevates our tefillos.In this shiur:Discovering the hidden seichel within everythingUnderstanding Hashgacha Pratis in everyday lifeHow to recognize personal messages without overthinkingThe relationship between Torah, chein, and answered tefillosWhy Divine wisdom illuminates our path in lifeLearning from ordinary encounters and everyday experiencesThe tzaddik's ability to see beyond the surface of realityLearn how to move through life with greater awareness, recognizing that even the simplest moments can become opportunities to grow closer to Hashem.#LikuteiMoharan #RebbeNachman #DavidReboh #Breslov #HashgachaPratis #Chassidus

What makes a prayer get accepted? In the first shiur on Likutey Moharan Torah 1, we learn Rebbe Nachman's opening teaching: "Da, ki al yedei haTorah niskablin kol hatefillos v'chol habakashos." Through Torah, all our prayers and requests are accepted. This shiur gives the map of the Torah without getting lost in diyukim. We learn it in its simple meaning and try to take it inside. In this shiur: • Ashrei temimei derech: why simplicity is wholeness, and why chochmos can get in the way of avodas Hashem • The difference between tefillah and bakashah: tefillah is connection • Daas, emunah, and yediah: seeing the Godliness beneath the surface • Giving, receiving, and taking: how the yetzer hara turns both the giver and the receiver into takers • What chen really is, and why it isn't just "charm" or "grace" • Ayeles ahavim v'ya'alas chen: how Torah brings chen to those who learn it • Look for the seichel in everything: like the emergency floor lights on a plane, every encounter lights the way • Yaakov Avinu and the bechorah: tracing everything back to its reishis • The sun, the letter ches, and chiyus • The nun of chen: become a receiver like the moon, and the light of the moon will be like the light of the sun When we stop taking and become real receivers, with no ego and nothing of our own, we connect the nun to the ches and get the chen that makes all our tefillos accepted. Ashreinu! #RebbeNachman #LikuteyMoharan #Breslov #Torah #Chen #Tefillah #Emunah #Chassidus#TorahShiur #TorahLearning #Shiur #JewishLearning #Kabbalah #Chassidut #Hasidism #TorahWisdom #DafYomi #JewishWisdom

Before learning the first Torah in Likutey Moharan, we hear the stories behind it. A man came to Rebbe Nachman in Medvedevka and complained that his prayers weren't being answered. He saw it because he had no chen or chashivus among the people of his town, who didn't respect his long davening. The Rebbe told him to learn something right after davening, Mishnah or Gemara, and promised that his tefillah would be accepted and that he would find chen in the eyes of Hashem and people. The man came back: "My learning doesn't light my way like the sun." The Rebbe answered: "If only it would light for you at least like the moon first. Then it will shine like the sun." When he came a third time, full of simcha, the Rebbe revealed this Torah and said: "Vos hot a mentsh tsu ton af der velt? Nor davnen, un lernen, un davnen." What does a person have to do in this world? Only davnen, learn, and davnen. • Why the first 15 Torahs of Likutey Moharan are on the stories of Rabbah bar bar Chanah, and how Rabbah bar bar Chanah himself came to the Rebbe and asked him to reveal their secrets • Why Reb Nosson didn't hear Ashrei Temimei Derech directly from the Rebbe, and how he put the text together • "Davnen, learn, and davnen": why not "learn, davnen, and learn"? • The three visits of the man from Medvedevka: chen, the sun, and the moon • Learn Torah b'koach, in simplicity, and the yetzer hara will be subdued • Reb Nosson's own struggle: losing his chen with his family after coming close to the Rebbe, and how this Torah fixed everything • "Going with a Torah": turning the learning into tefillah and hisbodedus We should merit to keep this Torah in complete simplicity, to learn and to do. #RebbeNachman #LikuteyMoharan #Breslov #Torah #Tefillah #Chen #Chassidus #ReiNosson#RebbeNachmanOfBreslov #BreslovChassidus #LikuteiMoharan #Uman #TorahShiur #JewishLearning #Prayer #Hisbodedus #Hitbodedut #Simplicity #Emunah #Judaism #Spirituality #Faith #JewishWisdom

Episode Title:Finding Hashem in Everything | R’ Joey Rosenfeld — Likutei Moharan Torah AlefEpisode Description:Rebbe Nachman teaches that a Jew must always look for the hidden wisdom within everything—“להסתכל בהשכל של כל דבר.” But what does it actually mean to discover Hashem within the ordinary experiences of life?In this shiur, R’ Joey Rosenfeld explores the profound relationship between Chochmah and Malchus, the difference between intellectual understanding and Divine awareness, and the transformative power of bitul.Through the teachings of Chassidus and the deeper significance of Yaakov Avinu, we discover that the goal of spiritual wisdom is not to transcend the world and leave it behind, but to bring the light of Hashem into every aspect of our lives.A powerful exploration of how Torah can illuminate our relationships, our challenges, our tefillos, and the everyday moments through which we draw closer to HaKadosh Baruch Hu.Likutei Moharan, Torah Alef | R’ Joey Rosenfeld

Why is Lechu Chazu the only Torah in Likutey Moharan with no number? Rebbe Nachman said it on his way to Uman, and Rav Noson put it at the very start of the sefer. In this shiur we look at why it isn't only the opening to Likutey Moharan as a whole but the key to Torah Aleph in particular.In this shiur: • Why the "וכו׳" at the end of Lechu Chazu is the biggest proof, and why Rav Noson wasn't afraid of anything • The plural "על ידי": Rav Shimon bar Yochai and Rebbe Nachman, the נ״ח • Rav Shimon's promise that the Torah won't be forgotten, and why "we won't find a clear halacha and a clear mishnah in one place" isn't a concession • "כי לא תשכח מפי זרעו": how the secrets of the Torah show up inside its revealed layer • "דאיהו": every sefer that shines like the Zohar, and why the hidden secrets of the Torah are usSome of these are my own readings, and I stand to be corrected.#RebbeNachman #Breslov #LikuteyMoharan #LikuteiMoharan #LechuChazu #TorahAleph #Torah1 #RabbiNachmanOfBreslov #RavShimonBarYochai #Rashbi #Zohar #Kabbalah #Chassidus #Uman #TorahShiur #JewishLearning #Torah #Emunah #NachmanFried

"On the way, I told a story — and whoever heard it had a hirhur teshuvah."Rebbe Nachman isn't telling a story. He's telling your story. In this shiur, given before Shabbos Bereishis, we go back to the opening of The Lost Princess and walk through it word by word, the way the Rebbe wrote it: every word meduyak.We learn:• "Ana v'amar," he answered. Who is the Rebbe answering? Every question you will ever have in life. "B'derech": we're all on the road, and this is the story of the road.• Hern vs. derhern. You can hear the story and not hear it. Derhern means it goes into your heart.• The power of a hirhur teshuvah. The Gemara in Kiddushin says that even a rasha gamur who betroths "on condition that I am a tzaddik" makes a valid kiddushin, because maybe he had a thought of teshuvah. A thought you dismissed still counts, because it came from Hashem.• The three characters. The King is Hashem. The viceroy is the tzaddik, and the tzaddik inside every one of us ("v'amech kulam tzaddikim"). The princess is the Shechinah, the chelek Eloka mima'al buried in us under layers of ego. And why are the six sons mentioned once and never again?• Giver, receiver, and taker. The yetzer hara says "chap, take!" A receiver becomes a taker when he grabs before it comes, like jumping at the first plate of kugel at the kiddush. A giver becomes a taker when he thinks he's the giver. You're not the giver. You're the bank teller.• The castle and the soldiers. Olam HaZeh looks impossible to get into, and then nobody stops you. It's beautiful, everyone is welcoming, and it's a trap to make you forget why you came down.• "Eilech v'anaseh," let me go and try. These are the key words of the whole story. The obstacle only looked big from outside.• Why didn't the viceroy get up? He finally sees the princess and doesn't move. She has to come to him and shake him. The corner is the meitzar, being stuck, the anxiety of two feelings at war. Freeze, fight or flight.Why didn't the viceroy get up? He finally sees the princess and doesn't move. She has to come to him and shake him. The corner is the meitzar, being stuck, the anxiety of two feelings at war. Freeze, fight or flight.The takeaway: the Yamim Tovim are behind us and the long winter is ahead. Don't get lost in the ballroom. Remember the mission, which is to search for the princess inside you, and hold on to the tzaddik who said, "What do you have to worry about, since I go before you?"📖 From The Lost Princess: A Torah Journey Through the Story of Rebbe Nachman by Nachman Fried, Eilech V'anaseh🔔 Subscribe for more shiurim on the stories of Rebbe Nachman and Breslov chassidus.#TheLostPrincess #RebbeNachman #Breslov #LostPrincess #SipureiMaasiyot #RebbeNachmanStories #EilechVanaseh #LetMeGoAndTry #Chassidus #Torah #Shiur #TorahShiur #JewishWisdom #JewishStories #Kabbalah #Teshuvah #HirhurTeshuvah #Repentance #ReturnToGod #Shechinah #Neshamah #Soul #TrueSelf #Ego #YetzerHara #Distraction #Anxiety #FreezeFightFlight #Fear #Mission #PurposeOfLife #FindYourself #Search #Tzaddik #Viceroy #Princess #Giver #Receiver #Taker #Sefirot #Malchut #OlamHazeh #Emunah #Chizuk #Inspiration #Motivation #JewishSpirituality #Spirituality #SelfGrowth #PersonalGrowth #ShabbosBereishis #Bereishis #AfterSukkos #Kiddushin #Gemara #Judaism #JewishLearning #Uman #NaNachNachma #Hashem

Why does every tefillah and every bakashah get accepted through Torah? And what is real chen?In this shiur on Likutey Moharan Torah 1 (Ashrei Temimei Derech), we go back to the opening pasuk and ask what was bothering Rebbe Nachman. Why does it say "temimei derech" before "haholchim b'Toras Hashem"? And what does "Toras Hashem" actually mean?We learn:• The Lost Princess connection. The viceroy stood up on his own because he saw the King's pain, and so did we: we weren't drafted into this world, we signed up. He asked for a horse, a companion and money for expenses, and that shows us the difference between tefillah (the search for connection) and bakashah (the tools for the journey). "Bikesh" and "levakesh": as long as you're searching, you're receiving.• Ohr halevanah k'ohr hachamah. The moon has no light of its own. When I become a nun, a receiver, and know that everything I have is Hashem's, I can shine in the darkness of Olam Hazeh.• Ir v'Kadish and Nachal Novea. Rebbe Shimon lifts us from above and Rebbe Nachman pushes us up from below. "Why worry, since I go before you": the Rebbe has already been inside every challenge we will face.• The mechanics of chen. Connect your malchus to chochmah (nun to ches, Noach found chen), and it shines through your face onto everyone around you, in ruchniyus and in gashmiyus, for the individual and for Klal Yisrael.• EGO = Edge God Out. Ego is the place where I don't let God in. Hurts we bury and guard all our lives become the wall that stops us from receiving. Let go a little and you become a vessel.The takeaway: chen isn't just a word, it's work. Let go of a little more ego, connect to the Godliness in everything, and ask yourself: am I doing this for me, or for You?Ashreinu.#RebbeNachman #Breslov #LikuteyMoharan #Torah #Chassidus #Kabbalah #JewishWisdom #Shiur #TorahShiur #LikuteyMoharanTorah1 #AshreiTemimeiDerech #TheLostPrincess #LostPrincess #RebbeNachmanStories #Tefillah #Prayer #Bakashah #Chen #Grace #Charm #Ego #EdgeGodOut #LettingGo #Emunah #Bitachon #Faith #Trust #Spirituality #JewishSpirituality #Neshamah #Soul #Shechinah #Geulah #Redemption #Tzaddik #Tzadikim #RebbeShimon #RashbiZohar #Zohar #PnimiyutHaTorah #Chochmah #Malchut #Sefirot #Tehillim #Psalms #Noach #KlalYisrael #Hashem #FindingGod #HiddenGod #Simplicity #Temimut #Humility #SelfGrowth #PersonalGrowth #Avodah #Uman #NaNachNachma #JewishLearning #Judaism

R' David Reboh Torah 1 - Shiur 2R' Reboh describes how Rabbeinu and later Rav Kenig seemed to “create reality” around whatever Torah they were learning, giving the example that while learning Torah Alef in Likutei Moharan (Tinyana) Rav Kenig was unexpectedly taken to meet the rabbis of Montreal because the Torah discusses connecting to all Jews via Gedolei Yisrael. He urges learning a Torah be’emet by knowing its parts clearly, internalizing it until it becomes a unified “ruach,” and living with it through hitbodedut and life changes, as part of a broader view that all Likutei Moharan is one mahalach. The shiur introduces Torah Alef’s themes: Torah brings accepted tefillot and chen, and a Jew should seek and connect to the sechel she’bekol davar, treating events as non-haphazard hints without becoming confused. Stories include interpreting a bird hitting a window as mussar, and Rav Elazar Kanievsky advising an over-literal hint-seeker to first understand Gemara and Rashi to avoid ga’avah and confusion. The world is presented as metaphors rooted in Torah and sefirot, and the “sechel” is described as a great light requiring tzimtzum, associated with Yaakov, bechor, and shemesh.00:00 Morning Opening00:21 Torah Shapes Reality02:16 Living the Torah04:42 Program and Torah Alef06:39 Finding Wisdom Everywhere07:47 Bird Window Lesson09:21 World as Torah Metaphor10:23 Sefirot and Human Design12:49 Everything as Mashal14:00 Hints and Remezim14:10 Hints and Free Choice14:39 When Signs Become Confusion15:37 Tzadikim and Ruach Hakodesh17:20 Gemara Lesson on Humility19:40 Practical Remazim and Mussar22:30 Sechel Ohr Gadol and Tzimtzum24:41 Yaakov the Bechor and Chochmah26:35 Beit Hamikdash Mindset27:59 Wrap Up and Shabbat Shalom

R' David Reboh Torah 1 - Shiur 1R' Reboh introduces a new worldwide Likutei Moharan chabura through L’tayen B’torato, emphasizing the kiddush Hashem and achdut of learning together and focusing discussions on Torah Alef, chen, chashivut, and limud Torah. He begins Torah Alef, explaining that through Torah all prayers and requests are accepted and Israel’s chen and importance rise, while currently true chen has fallen and seems to be valued among the nations. He teaches that Torah is “ayelet ahavim ve’ayalat chen,” giving grace to the learner, and that a Jew must seek the sechel and chochmah within every thing and situation to draw close to Hashem. Using stories about Yosef’s chen in prison, a hospital elevator incident, and Baal Shem Tov’s “got junk” episode, he illustrates divine messages in daily events, the concealment of Hashem, sefirot as modes of interaction, and how strong Torah learning provides the “code” to perceive these remazim.00:00 Launching the Chabura01:41 Rabba Bar Hana Secrets03:04 How Rebbe Nachman Teaches05:31 Torah Accepts Prayers06:21 Losing and Regaining Chen09:36 Yosef and the Miracle of Chen12:07 Seeing Sechel in Everything15:21 Tzimtzum and Hidden Messages17:54 Hospital Elevator Story20:06 Elevator Lesson in Kindness20:59 Seeing Yourself in Others21:34 Sefirot and Divine Interaction23:21 Your Body Mirrors Sefirot25:13 Baal Shem Tov Got Junk Story29:07 Messages from a Non Jew30:13 Snowplow Teshuva Insight31:17 Elul Border Check Reminder33:39 Workday as Divine Hints34:33 Torah as the Code34:46 Build Seder and Finish Strong35:16 Closing and Continue Tomorrow

R' Yirmi Ginzburg Torah 1 - Shiur 1I assert that the Torah will not be forgotten because the Sefer Zohar and the teachings of Rabbi Shimon ben Yochai sustain and restore it. We trace how, after the destruction of the Second Temple, many feared the loss of Torah, yet figures such as Rabbi Akiva and Rabbi Shimon renewed the chain of learning and preserved the tradition. I explain that Rabbi Nachman presents his own teachings as a continuation of that salvific stream and that his teachings, like the Zohar, can lead Klal and individuals out of exile. We distinguish between communal exile and personal exile and show how study of the Zohar and Hasidic instruction can return a person to spiritual freedom and confidence. We invite listeners to engage with these texts and practices as practical means to navigate hardship and to access deeper revelation and growth. I recount the historical rupture and the sustained promise that Torah will not be effaced. I describe the despair after the destruction of the Beit HaMikdash and the dislocation at Yavneh, when sages feared that the Devar Hashem would be lost and people would wander in search of guidance. I explain how voices in the Talmud foresaw a famine of spiritual knowledge and how countervailing testimonies insisted otherwise. I relate how Rabbi Kiva revived Torah study after catastrophe and how that precedent frames our trust that transmission can endure even through calamity. I then articulate the specific claim offered by Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai and the subsequent mystical rationale. I show how the Sefer Zohar is presented as the luminous instrument that will carry Israel out of exile. I recount the teaching that the final letters of a targumic passage conceal the name Yochai, and how the Zohar’s light is said to illuminate the darkness of forgetfulness. I conclude by affirming that, for us, these narratives justify continued attachment to the Zohar and Hasidic exposition as vehicles of resilience and continuity.Takeaways:I describe how Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai and the Zohar preserve Torah through exile.We explain that the Zohar offers enduring light and practical guidance which helps communities survive spiritual darkness during exile.I recount the Gemara debate about whether Torah will be forgotten and why it persisted.We show how personal inner exile and communal exile both require different paths to redemption.I assert that the teachings of Rabbi Nachman and the Zohar renew faith and study practice.We emphasize practical steps such as consistent study, community support, and trust in tzadikim during hardship.I note historic examples like Rabbi Akiva and Rabbi Nachman demonstrating resilience that rebuilt Torah life after tragedy.

R' Gedaliah Jaffe Torah 1 - Shiur 1I state the principal point immediately: by commencing the study of Torah Aleph and engaging in earnest Torah learning, we restore the true chein, the spiritual chain, that causes Hashem to accept our tefilos and bakashos. We begin at the very beginning and will learn with the Ota/Batia commentary and the teachings associated with Rabbi Ephraim Portnoy. We distinguish between tefillah as the set liturgical prayers and bakashos as personal requests, and we explain how Torah study elevates and secures both. We teach that in our present exile the true chain has been diminished, and that certain fallen husks, especially klipah nogah, can be elevated through proper learning and intention while wholly impure shells cannot. We conclude that the practical aim is to attach ourselves to Torah and sincere prayer so that our requests will be accepted, and we will next examine the letters and concrete applications of these concepts.

R' Jonathan Rietti Torah 1 - Shiur 1I state the main point: Rav Nachman teaches that every line of his Torah holds deep layers, and that learning Torah and turning it into prayer restores our spiritual favor and lets us see Hashem in life. I explain that his Torah links all things and that each sentence can be a headline with hidden meaning. We begin Torah Aleph and we will study how to dig into the words and find practical guidance. I emphasize that true learning must become prayer, and that this change makes our petitions accepted. I show Jacob as a model of clarity and tamim who reads God’s voice in daily events, and we will learn how to follow that path. I open the talk by placing Rav Nachmans Torah at the center of our work. I say that we will learn Torah Aleph from the start. I describe Rav Nachmans claim that every line in his words is a headline and a rule. I explain the palace image. I say that small anomalies in the text are deliberate signs. I tell listeners that digging beneath the surface yields hidden treasure. I summarize that Rav Nachman asks us to learn with care and to find layered meaning by close attention and by prayer. I stress that Torah learning must become prayer. I say that turning study into tefilla shows true intent. I offer the practical point that davening and learning together give the eyes to see God in daily life. I end by inviting listeners to test these ideas in study and in prayer and to expect practical change when they do.Takeaways:I state that Rav Nachman teaches that every line of his Torah functions as a headline revealing deeper layers.I explain that learning Torah must become tefilla, turning study into earnest prayer and dependence on God.We emphasize meticulous attention to dikduk, because each grammatical detail can unlock hidden meanings and spiritual treasures.I assert that true khayn and hashivas arise from inner connection to God and are lost through deliberate sin.We note that panim mirror panim: a person's inner thought and feeling are reflected immediately in facial expression.I claim that Torah study refines perception so we can discern God's voice in ordinary life and events.We describe how returning the nation's favor requires elevating our spiritual status through sustained learning, prayer, and teshuva.I remind listeners that the teacher acts as a midwife to bring forth wisdom already present within the student.

R' Moshe Chaim Eade | Likutei Moharan Torah Alef – Shiur 2: Discovering the Divine Wisdom in EverythingWhat is the secret of chen, and how does learning Torah transform not only the way others see us, but the way we experience Hashem and the world around us?In the second shiur on Likutei Moharan Torah Alef, R' Moshe Chaim Eade continues exploring the relationship between Torah, tefillah, and chen v'chashivus—the grace, beauty, and significance that emerge when a Yid reconnects with the neshamah.We explore the difference between external beauty and true inner beauty, why Torah restores the hidden chen of Klal Yisrael, and how genuine love for Torah allows that beauty to shine outward. Through the examples of Noach finding favor in Hashem's eyes and Yaakov Avinu recognizing the potential for good in Esav, we discover how chen reflects and reveals the goodness hidden within another person.The shiur then turns to one of Rebbe Nachman's foundational teachings: להסתכל בהשכל שבכל דבר—the obligation to recognize the Divine wisdom, purpose, and message within everything we encounter.Drawing on stories of tzaddikim and the concept of Hashgachah Pratis, we learn that nothing in our lives is simply random. Every experience, interaction, and challenge contains an opportunity to discover Hashem's presence.Ultimately, Rebbe Nachman teaches us that the Beis Medrash does not end at its physical walls. Our entire lives can become a place of Torah, where we learn to recognize Hashem in everything and live with the awareness of שויתי ה׳ לנגדי תמיד.

R' Shlomo Karmely Torah Alef Shiur 1 LWhat gives our tefillos the power to be answered? What is chen, and how can we develop a deeper sense of favor, grace, and connection with Hashem?In this shiur on Likutei Moharan Torah Alef, we begin by exploring Rebbe Nachman’s extraordinary understanding of the power of his sefer and its role in bringing the world closer to Geulah.We then dive into the opening teaching of Torah Alef, where Rebbe Nachman reveals the profound connection between Torah, tefillah, and chen—the special grace and spiritual attractiveness that comes through learning Torah. We explore the difference between genuine chen and superficial attraction, why Klal Yisrael’s true chen has become hidden in galus, and how Torah restores that beauty and significance.Finally, we begin uncovering one of Rebbe Nachman’s foundational teachings: השכל שבכל דבר—the Divine wisdom hidden within everything we encounter. Through the example of Yaakov Avinu, we discover how learning to recognize Hashem’s wisdom in even the most ordinary experiences can illuminate our lives and transform the way we see the world.A powerful introduction to discovering the hidden light of Torah, restoring our connection with Hashem, and finding chen in every part of life.

R’ Joey Rosenfeld Torah 1 Shiur 1Why does Rebbe Nachman begin Likutei Moharan with Torah Alef, and what makes this teaching the foundation for understanding his entire sefer?In this introductory shiur, we explore Rebbe Nachman’s place in the unfolding revelation of Pnimiyus HaTorah, the unique role of Reb Noson in preserving his teachings, and the deeper significance of learning Likutei Moharan as a living connection to the tzaddik.Drawing on the teachings of Rav Avraham ben Rav Nachman and other Breslov masters, we discover why Torah Alef serves as an introduction to the entire sefer and how its central themes of Chochmah, Malchus, Torah, and tefillah reveal the purpose of our spiritual journey.At the heart of the shiur is a powerful idea: the goal of Torah is not simply to elevate ourselves toward Heaven, but to bring the light of Heaven into our everyday lives. Through learning Torah, transforming Torah into personal tefillah, and developing a deeper connection with Hashem, we can restore the chen and chashivus—the beauty, grace, and significance—hidden within ourselves and the world around us.An introduction to Rebbe Nachman’s vision of Torah as a path toward hope, joy, dveikus, and discovering Hashem’s presence in every part of life.

Every Torah in Likutey Moharan has a number. Except one.On the Rebbe's yahrzeit, 18 Tishrei 5787, at Breslov of New Hempstead, Nachman Fried gives a sneak preview of Lechu Chazu as we begin learning Torah 1 together. Reb Gedalya Kenig z"l said Lechu Chazu is part of Torah 1. Perhaps that is why Reb Nosson gave it no number: it is the platform of the whole Likutey Moharan.On the road to Uman, the Rebbe revealed the secret of Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai. "Ki lo sishachach mipi zaro": the last letters spell Yochai. Rashbi is the "ir v'kadish min shmaya nachis," the holy one who came down from heaven to save the Torah. "V'achshav yesh nachal novea mekor chochma": and now there is a flowing spring, a source of wisdom, whose first letters spell Nachman. "Even the ir v'kadish must receive from there."In this clip:Why the 2,300 who joined today matter: lilmod al menas l'lamedLechu Chazu, the Torah with no numberChayei Moharan 189: Rashbi's promise that the Torah will not be forgottenRabbi Yitzchak Kenig's vort: Moshe, the malach, and "kelum yesh lachem av va'em?"Rashbi saves the Torah from above, and the Rebbe pushes us up from below"Mah lachem lidog, me'achar she'ani holech lifneichem": I already went to your placeJoin the Torah 1 learning. Learn it, live it, and share it.#RebbeNachman #RabbiNachman #Breslov #Breslev #LikuteyMoharan #LikuteiMoharan #Torah1 #LechuChazu #NachalNovea #NachalNoveaMekorChochma #Rashbi #RabbiShimonBarYochai #Zohar #IrVKadish #ChayeiMoharan #Yahrzeit #18Tishrei #Uman #LetayelBToraso #NachmanFried #Chassidus #Chasidut #Kabbalah #Torah #Shiur #TorahLearning #JewishLearning #JewishWisdom #Emunah #Chizuk

On the Rebbe's yahrzeit, 18 Tishrei, at Breslov of New Hempstead, Nachman Fried asks how a tiny Boro Park minyan of fifty or sixty people became tens of thousands in Uman, with no money and no campaign behind it.He reads from Chayei Moharan the sicha the Rebbe said on the road to Uman. Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai saved the Torah from above, as the ir v'kadish min shmaya nachis. "And now there is a nachal novea mekor chochma," whose first letters spell Nachman, "from which even the ir v'kadish must receive." Then Reb Nosson's account of the histalkus: "Mah lachem lidog, me'achar she'ani holech lifneichem. What do you have to worry about? I am going before you."In this talk:From 700 people to tens of thousands. Nothing is by accident, and every one is invited.Ikar hatzaddik hu toraso: why we're starting Torah 1 together.Lechu Chazu, the only Torah in Likutey Moharan with no number.Rabbi Yitzchak Kenig's vort on Moshe and the malach.Rashbi lifts us from above. The Rebbe pushes us up from below: "I already went to your place."A man who came back 365 days sober.Learn the Torah, and share it.#RebbeNachman #RabbiNachman #Breslov #Breslev #Uman #Yahrzeit #18Tishrei #LikuteyMoharan #LikuteiMoharan #Torah1 #LechuChazu #RabbiShimonBarYochai #Rashbi #Zohar #NachalNovea #ChayeiMoharan #NachmanFried #TikkunHaklali #Hisbodedus #Chizuk #Teshuva #Emunah #Chassidus #Chasidut #Torah #Shiur #JewishLearning #JewishWisdom #Sukkos #Recovery

The viceroy has failed twice and fallen into "the slumber of a lifetime." Then the princess comes past in her closed chariot. She stops. She steps down. She sits beside him. And she recognizes him.In Shiur 23 of Elech Va'anaseh, we go through Rebbe Nachman's words in The Lost Princess one at a time: ועמדה שם, וירדה, וישבה אצלו, והכירה אותו. What they ask of us is to stop, come down to where the other person is, sit with them, and see them.In this shiur:The spiritual slumber: how we bury the real self, our neshama, under ego, comparison and denial, until we can't feel it anymore, and how it still wakes us at Yom Kippur, at a kumzitz, or in the middle of the night.Layer by layer: why return doesn't start from your old high point. One pound at a time, one step at a time."She went down to his place": the secret of validation. A personal story of sitting through a friend's shiva without saying a word, and why that was what he remembered.Hisbodedus every day: even five minutes, and why the yetzer hara fights it so hard.What I see in you is what I see in myself: why a real tzaddik sees only good in every Yid.Korban = victim: giving up the need to be the victim as our sacrifice today.We end with the princess's words: "As long as I am here and cannot get out…"Elech Va'anaseh ("Let me go and try") is a chabura founded by Gavriel Hass and led by Nachman Fried. It uses Rebbe Nachman of Breslov's story The Lost Princess as a workshop for honest self-reflection and inner growth. This is not a group of people who have figured it out. It's a group of people who decided to try together.📖 The chabura's book is in progress: 25 shiurim so far, about 280 pages, a third of the way into the story.#RebbeNachman #LostPrincess #Breslov #Hisbodedus #Chizuk #TeshuvaThe spellings follow your memory notes rather than the transcript: Fried (the transcript has "Freed") and Gavriel Hass (the transcript has "Haas"). If you want timestamps in the description, send me the video's running times for each part and I'll add them.give me discription with more hashtagsHere's the full description with a bigger set of hashtags, ready to paste:The viceroy has failed twice and fallen into "the slumber of a lifetime." Then the princess comes past in her closed chariot. She stops. She steps down. She sits beside him. And she recognizes him.In Shiur 23 of Elech Va'anaseh, we go through Rebbe Nachman's words in The Lost Princess one at a time: ועמדה שם, וירדה, וישבה אצלו, והכירה אותו. What they ask of us is to stop, come down to where the other person is, sit with them, and see them.In this shiur:The spiritual slumber: how we bury the real self, our neshama, under ego, comparison and denial, until we can't feel it anymore, and how it still wakes us at Yom Kippur, at a kumzitz, or in the middle of the night.Layer by layer: why return doesn't start from your old high point. One pound at a time, one step at a time."She went down to his place": the secret of validation. A personal story of sitting through a friend's shiva without saying a word, and why that was what he remembered.Hisbodedus every day: even five minutes, and why the yetzer hara fights it so hard.What I see in you is what I see in myself: why a real tzaddik sees only good in every Yid.Korban = victim: giving up the need to be the victim as our sacrifice today.We end with the princess's words: "As long as I am here and cannot get out…"Elech Va'anaseh ("Let me go and try") is a chabura founded by Gavriel Hass and led by Nachman Fried. It uses Rebbe Nachman of Breslov's story The Lost Princess as a workshop for honest self-reflection and inner growth. This is not a group of people who have figured it out. It's a group of people who decided to try together.📖 The chabura's book is in progress: 25 shiurim so far, about 280 pages, a third of the way into the story.#RebbeNachman #RabbiNachman #Breslov #Breslev #LostPrincess #TheLostPrincess #ElechVaanaseh #SipureiMaasiyot #SippureiMaasiyos #RebbeNachmanStories #NachmanFried #Hisbodedus #Hitbodedut #Teshuva #Chizuk #Emunah #Torah #TorahClass #Shiur #JewishWisdom #JewishLearning #Chassidus #Chasidut #Kabbalah #Neshama #Soul #RealSelf #SpiritualGrowth #InnerWork #SelfReflection #PersonalGrowth #Validation #Empathy #Relationships #Mindfulness #Healing #Uman #Judaism #Jewish

R' Moshe Chaim Eade Torah 1 - Shiur 1Torah Alef teaches that learning Torah can help our tefillos be answered and restore the honor and beauty—“chen”—of the Jewish people.Rebbe Nachman originally taught this Torah to someone who felt his prayers were not being answered. He told him to learn Torah after davening and keep learning even when he doesn’t fully understand. With persistence, the Torah will eventually become clearer, and the Torah itself helps bring a person’s prayers before Hashem.The shiur also explains that Rebbe Nachman connects Torah and tefillah rather than choosing one over the other. Torah gives strength to our prayers, protects Klal Yisrael, and brings us closer to geulah.A major theme is chen—favor, beauty, and importance. When the Jewish people’s chen has fallen, Torah restores it. As Chazal say, Torah gives chen to those who learn it.

Part two, and the last hours. We continue straight on through Reb Nosson's own account, line by line. It begins with him being asked to move the Rebbe from the chair to the bed — his head and most of his body leaning on Reb Nosson, his feet barely touching the ground. • And as he lifts him onto the bed: לְאַט, לְאַט — in Yiddish, fawliye, fawliye. Slowly, slowly. And Reb Nosson lays him down slowly and gently, and wonders why he had to be warned about it at all • And the Rebbe tells him: אֲנִי כָּבֵד עַתָּה — I am heavy now. And Reb Nosson adds, in his own parenthesis: a person before his passing becomes heavy, because the chiyus is beginning to leave him • וּבְכָל זֶה רָמַז לִי שֶׁהוּא קָרוֹב מְאֹד לְהִסְתַּלְּקוּתוֹ. וַאֲנִי לֹא שָׁמַעְתִּי כָּל זֹאת כְּלָל אָז. In all of this he was hinting to me that he was very near his histalkus. And I did not hear any of it at the time • Lying on the bed, looking at him the whole time — and I merited to serve him then, alone, and to hand him everything he needed • Rebbi, take something to restore yourself. "What will you give me?" Tea. "With an egg yolk." And Reb Nosson cooking it — the water, the yolk, the sugar — giving him water first for netilas yadayim, and the Rebbe saying it is still too hot, because in those days he was careful not to drink anything hot that would stir the blood again. A few days before his histalkus the bleeding had stopped And then the end, and the praises Reb Nosson writes afterwards. • אַשְׁרֵי עֵינַיִם שֶׁלֹּא הִסְתַּכְּלוּ בָּעוֹלָם הַזֶּה — praised are the eyes that never looked at this world, כִּי כָּל הָעוֹלָם כֻּלּוֹ הָיָה אֶצְלוֹ כְּהֶרֶף עַיִן — because the whole world was to him like the blink of an eye. Praised are the ears that heard no sound of this world — and so with every limb and every sense • And where does that language come from? The Seven Beggars. Sippurei Maasiyos, maaseh 13. Look there well and understand. Nobody in the world ever said praises like that about any tzaddik — and if he knew how to say them, he was surely holding there himself • They carry him out of the house, and Reb Nosson takes hold of the corner of his garment as they go • And the bed they carried him on — I gave instruction that it be made from his chair. The high chair he had said Torah on that Rosh Hashana in Uman. They broke it apart, and made it into his bed • Thousands accompanying him, unbearable crowding — and those carrying the bed were lifted off the ground, flying in the air. And I too carried him a little • Buried b'shalom, Wednesday, the fifth day of Sukkos, in Uman — the city he chose in his lifetime, because there were many kedoshim there • כִּי שָׁם הַמָּקוֹם הַמּוּכָן לוֹ מִשֵּׁשֶׁת יְמֵי בְרֵאשִׁית — because that is the place prepared for him from the six days of creation, to labor there at the tikkun of the world, for the generations — for anyone who will come to him there and say the ten Kapitlach Tehillim, as he promised in his lifetime אַשְׁרֵי הַזּוֹכֶה לָזֶה. And that is where Reb Nosson ends it. Not with the passing. With the promise — and with the reminder that it was never a private tikkun. Every Yid who comes and says those ten kapitlach is bringing a tikkun ha'olam. U'Mashiach yavo bimheirah b'yameinu, amen. #RebbeNachman #RebNachman #Breslov #Breslev #RebNoson #RebNosson #Histalkus #Yahrtzeit #YemeiMoharnat #ChayeiMoharan #Uman #Tziyun #TikkunHaKlali #Sukkos #Sukkot #SippureiMaasiyos #SevenBeggars #ShivaBeggars #Tzaddik #Emuna #Emunah #EmunasTzaddikim #TikkunHaOlam #Moshiach #Geulah #JewishHistory #JewishSpirituality #TorahShiur #Shiur #Yiddishkeit #EilechVanaseh

Tonight is the yahrzeit. We are sitting in the sukkah, and we are going to translate Reb Nosson's own documentation of the Rebbe's histalkus, line by line, in his words. It begins on the Wednesday before Erev Sukkos. Reb Nosson walks in before Mincha and finds the Rebbe very weak. Reb Naftali has gone to call the doctor. • וְקָצַפְתִּי עָלָיו מְאֹד — and I was furious with him. It was never my daas that a doctor should be called at all. And in this matter there is much to tell. In the end they outnumbered me and the doctor came — and it did not help a thing, and it brought his histalkus closer • From that hour on I did not move from him • That night he arranged his tzava'ah: three hundred adumim for his daughter Chaya, the kesubah for his wife. "There is more to say." And Reb Nosson answered: you do not need to say it — you yourself will help us in your zechus. And the Rebbe answered him: אֵצֶל הַשֵּׁם יִתְבָּרַךְ הַכֹּל אֶפְשָׁר — by Hashem everything is possible. Because that was always his way: never to insist on anything with anybody • "These three years I have lived by a nes" • And then the instruction about the ksavim — and Reb Nosson standing there trembling and stunned And then the part that is the hardest to hear, because Reb Nosson says it about himself. • He was mischazek and told his own heart: this is simply his way, he prepares himself to depart — but the Aibershter will not do this. He will live. Because we could not conceivably imagine that Hashem would take from us the light of all lights. We had not yet been zoche to receive the light everyone needs to receive from him • וּבַעֲוֹנוֹתֵינוּ הָרַבִּים, עַל יְדֵי מַחְשָׁבוֹת אֵלּוּ — אִבַּדְנוּ מַה שֶּׁאִבַּדְנוּ. Through these thoughts — we lost what we lost • If we had believed him simply when he told us outright, and by remez, times without number — we could certainly have heard from him things far more awesome • Because his ratzon was that there should be an isarusa d'letata. That we should arouse him to say it. And he would not say it on his own without one • But we did not put our hearts to it. All we wanted was that he should get better — and to think that he would tell us what to do after his histalkus, we did not want to accept at all. And so we never begged him And then the last night. • Reb Naftali sent to sleep, and refusing, because he could not bear the words he had heard — wanting only to stand there and be nehene from the light of his holy face • Reb Shimon lying down on the floor of the same room. The mesharet and his wife asleep. And nobody left to watch him and serve him except me alone • Standing in front of him for hours on end, from after chatzos until daylight — and not zoche to hear one sicha • And it was all because I did not want to let it into my mind that he would depart. And I understand now, in hindsight, that he wanted and yearned that we should ask him, that we should plead with him — and then he would have told us And then the thing you cannot put down. וְחָזַר וְהִבִּיט בִּי בְּעֵינָיו הַנּוֹרָאוֹת הַרְבֵּה — וְכָל הִסְתַּכְּלוּת שֶׁלּוֹ שֶׁהִסְתַּכֵּל בִּי הָיָה כְּמוֹ דִּבּוּרִים מַמָּשׁ. And he looked at me again and again with his awesome eyes — and every single look was like actual words. • Every time he looked, it lasted a full hour • And Reb Nosson, writing years later: and now I understand how much chizuk, and how many inyanim he looked into me that night. Every time something passes over me, chas v'shalom, whatever passes — and Hashem in His wonders saves me from all of it — I understand that it was all hinted at in that looking • And what the looking said: אַתָּה נִשְׁאָר עִם כָּל הָאוֹצָרוֹת הַגְּנוּזִים אֶצְלְךָ — you remain with all the hidden treasures. And what will become of them, and what will become of you? For many will rise against you — and what will a weak man like you do? • And more than that, which I myself do not know. All of it was hinted at in the way he looked at me. #RebbeNachman #RebNachman #Breslov #Breslev #RebNoson #RebNosson #Histalkus #Yahrtzeit #YemeiMoharnat #ChayeiMoharan #Sukkos #Sukkot #Uman #Tzaddik #Emuna #Emunah #EmunasTzaddikim #IsarusaDletata #Hisorerus #Kisvei #Torah #Chassidus #Chassidut #JewishHistory #JewishSpirituality #TorahShiur #Shiur #JewishGrowth #Yiddishkeit #EilechVanaseh

Erev Sukkos. Nothing prepared, as always — and then one comment in the room twisted the whole thing in a different direction.Start with where we actually are. From Rosh Chodesh Elul to Simchas Torah there is one stretch with no Yom Tov in it at all: the four days between Yom Kippur and Sukkos. Four days with nothing to hold on to. And they decide everything.Elul is HaMelech basadeh, the King in the field, campaigning for His own inauguration. Rosh Hashana is the coronation — v'yitnu lecha kesser meluchah — and the Rebbe says the crown is made of every kind of diamond and every kind of sapphire, which is every kind of Yid. The inauguration is live, and it happens in Uman. You can watch it from Boro Park. But you were invited to sit on the dais.Then Yom Kippur. And then — nothing.• Motzaei Yom Kippur, the urges come booming back. Every one of them. You just came through the holiest hours of the year and the yetzer hara is waiting at the door, and the four days with no Yom Tov in them are exactly where he does his work• Hamtana — the waiting. What the Rebbe calls the real teshuvah. You apologized and she said yes and her face has not changed yet. What do most of us do? Forget about it, I'm not saying it again. But if you wait it out, and face the humiliation, and do not run — the light comes back, and she comes back to you the way she came the first time• Elul through Yom Kippur is teshuva mi'yirah — I am scared, I want a good year, parnassa, nachas. Sukkos is teshuva me'ahava. The four days are the bridge, and there is no other way across• Rav Aharon on the road to Breslov, and what Reb Nosson said to him: even if the Rebbe himself told me not to come, I would not listen, because I know his real ratzon is that I should come• The three things Reb Nosson had clear from the Rebbe: Shulchan Aruch every day. Hisbodedus every day. And the third• Hisbodedus in bed, before the day starts. Negelvasser, back under the blanket, no phone, nothing has happened yet, nothing has tainted you, your neshama just came back from Hashem. Mateisi b'dimasi arsi — I soaked my bed with my tears• L'fareish kol libo — not help me and save me, but what am I feeling right now? And if you have to think about it, that is already the answer. You are not thinking your feelings, you are thinking your thinking• Which is why a man lives reactive, reactive, reactive — and even his proactive thinking is business, wife, children, tasks, transactions. What about me?• "She is always wrong with the story, and she is always right with the feeling." She is the scanner. She only knows one thing — are you providing, physically, emotionally, spiritually — and when you are not, beep, beep, beep. She finds some small thing you did not do and goes to pieces over it, and you are standing there saying what did I do? And you know exactly what you did. She does not. But she feels it• The wife as the Shechinah, the mekabel, the feminine — and kudsha brich hu as what is supposed to be coming toward her• The yetzer hara walked into the beis medrash. You can be sitting in the beis medrash and be in She'ol Tachtis with a scroll and the press of a button — and with AI it is worse. So what is your remedy? What are you actually going to do?• B'hai sefer haZohar yifkun min galusa — the answer is pnimiyus haTorah, because pnimiyus haTorah speaks to your challenges. It understands them• And the sicha: ve'achshav yesh nachal nove'a shemetaher mikol haksamim — now there is a flowing spring that cleanses us from every stain• Then the sukkah. Tzila d'mehemnusa — out of the house we sinned in, into neutral territory, to get to know each other again. The lulav and esrog as armor. And Simchas Torah, where we marry the Torah from Bereishis, from the beginning, like the first timeOne more day. One more day, Hashem. Get me through this one more day.#Sukkos #Sukkot #ErevSukkos #Teshuva #TeshuvaMeAhava #YomKippur #SimchasTorah #Hisbodedus #Hitbodedut #Breslov #Breslev #RebNachman #RebbeNachman #RebNoson #ZoharHakadosh #Zohar #RashbiRavShimon #PnimiyusHaTorah #NachalNovea #Shechinah #Marriage #Relationships #Emuna #Emunah #Uman #UmanRoshHashana #Tzaddik #SelfAwareness #Awareness #Feelings #Elul #HaMelechBasadeh #Lulav #Esrog #TzilaDemehemnusa #TorahShiur #Shiur #JewishSpirituality #JewishGrowth #BaalTeshuva #Yiddishkeit #EilechVanaseh

Sitting around the table after Rosh Hashana, telling it the way you'd tell a friend who has never been.It starts with the week before — a couple of hundred people and easy access to the tziyun on Sunday, harder on Monday, and by Tuesday you had to push your way through. Waves of people arriving every day until the whole place filled.And then the question somebody asks that nobody ever really answers: why is he buried in Uman at all?Thirty years before the Rebbe was born, Gonta came through, city by city. A fire in the square and a tzelem beside it — convert or jump. The mayor of Uman came out to surrender the city and offered his own daughter, Sophia, if the Jews would be spared. Gonta took the daughter and killed the Jews anyway. Thirty thousand of them. Twelve survived, and those twelve dug one pit on a mountain and made a kever achim.Years later the Rebbe passes through Uman on his way to Breslov and stays two weeks — in a room overlooking that cemetery. These neshamos are waiting for me to be metaken them. And he says he wants to be buried there.And another sicha, which is a hard thing to hear: he would have wanted Eretz Yisrael — but if I am buried in Eretz Yisrael, nobody will come. Here, everybody is going to come.What else we go through:• Berel and Aharon. Rav Aharon the Rav asks Erev Rosh Hashana whether to go back to his kehillah or stay — and gets yes to both questions. And Berel, a craftsman, a pshut'er Yid, an ones, does not make it. Reb Nosson tries to excuse him and the Rebbe will not take the excuse: "I said nobody should be missing. And Berela and Aharon are both missing."The greatest tzaddik of the generation and the simplest Yid, named in one breath• The promise at the kever — a pruta l'tzedaka, ten Kapitlach Tehillim, shelo yashuv od l'ivlato — and the Yiddish: I will lay myself out, in the length and in the breadth, and by his peyos I will pull him out of She'ol Tachtis u'mitachtav• What She'ol Tachtis actually means. She'ol is a bottomless pit — so what is tachtis? And then the Rebbe is mechadesh a place underneath it• The man who went to Uman on a free ticket, partied the whole Yom Tov, never once went to the tziyun — and on the way to the bus called out Rabbeinu, todah. Months later, the car accident, the beis din shel maalah, few mitzvos and many aveiros — and a redheaded yungerman walks in and says "he is from my people." They object that he never even came to the kever. But he called me Rebbe• Tikkun HaKlali is not only for tikkun habris. From Reb Yudel Kenig: it is the klali — the general remedy, for everything• Why we really come: not for ourselves. He needs every neshama for the tikkunim the world needs. You go because he said to come. Everything else is bonus• The ohr is always higher than you. Whatever level you are on, the light is above it — your lows in Uman are higher than your highest highs at homeAnd the part for anyone who just got back:• The integration is the hardest part. You come home and reality hits you smack in the face, and it does not wait a second. And you think — all my tefillos were that reality should get better, and I came back and it hit me the other way?• Surrender to that reading and the whole Uman was gornisht vert. Farkert. This is Hashem answering your tefillos. This is Him saying: here, I am giving you your challenge• First know where you are. Then take the ohr you got there and channel it into everything you asked for — a better husband, a better father, a better friend, a better human being, a better Yid#Uman #UmanRoshHashana #Uman5787 #Breslov #Breslev #RebNachman #RebbeNachman #RabbiNachmanOfBreslov #Tziyun #Kever #Gonta #KedosheiUman #KeverAchim #Sofiyivka #Ukraine #TikkunHaKlali #TikkunHabris #RoshHashana #RoshHashanah #Teshuva #Teshuvah #SheolTachtis #RebNosson #RavAharon #LikuteiMoharan #LikuteyMoharan #ChayeiMoharan #Chassidus #Chassidut #Emuna #Emunah #Tzaddik #Neshama #Hisbodedus #Hitbodedut #Integration #ComingHome #JewishHistory #JewishSpirituality #BaalTeshuva #JewishGrowth #TorahShiur #Shiur #Yiddishkeit #AmYisrael #Breslov613 #NachNachma

Go back to the beginning of the tale and notice something easy to miss. There is never a dialogue between the king and the viceroy. The king never asks him to search. He never sends him. Machmas shera'ah shehamelech mitztaer me'od — because he saw that the king was in tremendous pain, the viceroy got up on his own.That is where the whole journey starts. Not with a command. With compassion.And then he asks for three things — a horse, a servant, and money for his expenses.• The horse is the body. The servant is a companion — because you cannot cross this world alone• And the diyuk: he did not say a servant to serve me or a horse to ride on. But money — money for expenses. Why those two words?• Where is he going? Through olam hazeh, the place of lo tov. Not ra. Lo tovThen we go back further than the beginning:• The malach in Gemara Niddah who takes the tipah and asks tipah zu mah tehei aleha — strong or weak, wise or foolish, rich or poor. And the one thing he does not ask: tzaddik or rasha• The neshama does not want to come down — and comes anyway, because from here it can rise higher than where it started• And a thought of my own: perhaps that was Adam and Chava's logic too. Not nahama d'kisufa, not earning their keep — but that by going through the world of lo tov they could reach higher than they ever could standing in Atzilus• We were one with Hashem before the beriah, and bayom hahu yihyeh Hashem echad u'shemo echad — we will be one with Him again. So what is all of this in between?And then the part everybody leaves out of the Rebbe's promise:• A pruta l'tzedaka, ten Kapitlach Tehillim — and l'kabel alav shelo yashuv od l'ivlato. Nobody talks about that third one• So if I already did real teshuva — what do I need Rav Nachman for? What is the chiddush of I will pull him out by his peyos from She'ol Tachtis?• Vos klekt ayer teshuva? Ich tu teshuva far aich — what is your teshuva worth? I will do teshuva for you. And yesh l'kel yadi — I can repair everything you damaged until now. And more: mikan u'l'haba, on shegagos I am not makpid• The Rambam's question: you can fix what I already did — but how can you cover me going forward?• And the chiddush, said as a chiddush and nothing more. Standing at the kever, he brings you to a place where you say never again and you mean it with your whole heart. Anybody who has been there knows. So Monday comes, and Tuesday, and Thursday you fall — that is shogeg, because he is the eid that your teshuva was real. He takes away the meizid.• It is not a pass. Do you want to sin? No. Nobody wants to sin. And there is a Rishon who says that every aveira a Yid does is b'etzem a shogeg — we are in this world, the temptation gets us, and ein tzaddik ba'aretz asher ya'aseh tov v'lo yecheta• Tzaddik yipol sheva pa'amim v'kam — you only become a tzaddik by failing and getting up. The failures are part of the journeyAnd into Yom Kippur:• Itzumo shel yom mechaper — the day itself atones for bein adam la'Makom• But bein adam la'chaveiro, Yom Kippur does not atone. You have to go ask• And bein adam la'chaveiro starts at home. It starts with your wife. That is your real chaver. That is your real companion• Mochel v'soleach — a person can forgive and still not forget. The Aibershter forgives and erases it completelyAnd we do not daven only for ourselves. Look at how the world is turning. We need rachamei Shamayim for gantz Klal Yisrael — and this Simchas Torah should be a real Simchas Torah, dancing with the Torah with Moshiach tzidkeinu.#LostPrincess #BasMelech #RebNachman #RebbeNachman #Breslov #Breslev #SippureiMaasiyos #YomKippur #Teshuva #Teshuvah #TikkunHaKlali #Uman #Tziyun #Meizid #Shogeg #Rambam #HilchosTeshuva #Neshama #MalachLaila #Niddah #Atzilus #LoTov #Selicha #Mechila #BeinAdamLachaveiro #Marriage #Chassidus #Chassidut #Emuna #Emunah #SimchasTorah #SheminiAtzeres #Geulah #Moshiach #KlalYisrael #TorahShiur #Shiur #JewishSpirituality #JewishGrowth #BaalTeshuva #Yiddishkeit #EilechVanaseh

A fast run through the whole tale — the king, the daughter, the viceroy who asks for three things and sets out. The path off to the side. The castle of lo tov, where the festivities are real and the place is not. The year of longing, and the apple on the last day. The lowered prescription, and the spring that looked red and smelled like wine. Seventy years.And then we stop where we have been holding, and read it from the inside, word by word.V'amdah sham etzlo. V'yardah. V'yashvah etzlo. V'hikirah oso. V'haysah mena'eres oso me'od — v'lo ni'ar.And the question of the night: why was the mesharet hiding?• Who the soldiers are — not only the guards of lo tov, but the ones waging its war. And the ones who got him into that place to begin with• What the slumber actually is: he is there, but he is off his mission. He forgot his mission entirely• Why the companion hides. Not by choice. He hides because the viceroy, the mashpia, the one who gives to him, has stopped giving — and so he waits. And sometimes you are fortunate enough that he waits with you for seventy years• Everybody has a companion. A spouse, a mother, a brother, a Rebbe, a chavrusa. A person cannot go through life without one• Ezer k'negdo — zacha, na'aseh lo ezer. When you merit it, you see that the one standing opposite you is helping you. The people who tick us off, who trigger the worst in us, are helping us. Hashem is sending it through them, and we blame the messenger and never hear the message, because there is always a face to blame• Seventy years means a lifetime — yemei shenoseinu bahem shivim shanah. And a lifetime can fit inside a single year. A man can be in so much pain in one year that it is seventy years of pain• Who the three characters are, said again because we always need reminding: the king is Hashem, the lost princess is your neshama, and the viceroy is you• Heichan ani ba'olam — where am I in the world? However old you are: what have I accomplished, what have I done, where am I?• No matter where you fell, there is a door out — and a new code, a new clue, waiting in that exact place• Why the drop after Yom Kippur is a compass, not a failure. You had the ohr, and you are not there yet — and if you do not notice, something will smack you in the face• A retreat in Eretz Yisrael, ten weeks. I went for my wife. My life was great, I was happy — and I had no idea how unhappy I was, because I had gotten so good at distraction that I never felt anything.• Hachlata, and then hascholah — a decision, and then a beginningHold on these three days, and walk into the sukkah with ahava.#LostPrincess #BasMelech #RebNachman #RebbeNachman #Breslov #Breslev #SippureiMaasiyos #EzerKnegdo #Marriage #Companionship #Teshuva #TeshuvaMeAhava #Sukkos #Sukkot #YomKippur #Hisbodedus #Hitbodedut #Neshama #Galus #Distraction #Awareness #SelfAwareness #Mission #Chassidus #Chassidut #Emuna #TorahShiur #Shiur #JewishSpirituality #JewishGrowth #BaalTeshuva #Yiddishkeit #Mashiach #Shechinah #EilechVanaseh

We're standing in the four days between Yom Kippur and Sukkos, and this shiur is about why they matter more than almost anything. The Ten Days from Rosh Hashana to Yom Kippur are teshuva mi'yirah — you came the way a man comes to court, in his best suit, with his best lawyer, because he is being judged. And Sukkos through Hoshana Rabba is teshuva me'ahava. Then Simchas Torah, where we marry the Torah. But between them there is a gap. Four days. And what you do in them decides which teshuva you get. Hamtana — waiting. Holding on to the ohr you received. Facing the same feelings you have always run from — the loneliness, the rejection, the failure, the one feeling underneath that nobody wants to meet — and this time not running. Every one of us is an addict of something. These are the withdrawal days. Hold on through them, and you walk into Sukkos able to do it out of love instead of fear. Today is day one. Baruch Hashem — victory. What we go through: • B'tzila d'mehemnusa — the sukkah as the shade of emuna. And emuna is not only faith, it is loyalty — He is loyal to us every morning, rabbah emunasecha • Hisbodedus, practically. Not a technique — a relationship. Five minutes. The four components: gratitude, yesterday, today, and the one most people leave out — the pain • Thirty seconds of thank You can hold your whole family • Ribono Shel Olam, what am I doing wrong? What is blocking me? • Talk to Him like a friend. A king judges. A father judges. A real friend never judges, and you can tell him anything — and the Ribono Shel Olam understands your struggles • The heart follows the words. Start talking even when you feel nothing, and the heart comes after. And when it doesn't — just sit there • You are not one of Klal Yisrael in those five minutes. You are the only one. Ben yachid, bas yechidah • Awareness — what am I feeling right now? Ask most people and they have to think, and if you have to think, that is already the answer • Why running from yourself is itself an aveira, even when nothing in the Torah was broken — and why it eventually turns into one And then the heart of it: the whole yesod of screaming. • Hashem ori v'yish'i — He is my light, my flashlight. I am in the darkness and I cannot find the door • P'sach lanu sha'ar b'eis ne'ilas sha'ar — open a gate at the moment the gate is closing. The words contradict each other, and that is the point • How do we know there is always a door? Haba l'taher mesay'in lo, haba l'tamei posschin lo. If there was a door out, there has to be a door back in. We just cannot see where it is • The flashlight has a button, and the button is emes. Chosamo shel HaKadosh Baruch Hu emes. One word of truth and the light goes on • But what if I cannot manage even one word of truth? Then scream. Shray tzum Eibershten — as my Rebbe, Rav Leizer Kenig zt"l, used to tell me every time I came to him with a problem • Because when I scream oy — that oy of pain — that is my emes. My pain is talking, and pain does not lie. That turns on the flashlight, and then I can find the door #Sukkos #Sukkot #Teshuva #TeshuvaMeAhava #YomKippur #HoshanaRabba #SimchasTorah #Hisbodedus #Hitbodedut #Breslov #Breslev #RebNachman #RebbeNachman #RabbiNachmanOfBreslov #LikuteiMoharan #Emuna #Emunah #Emes #Screaming #ShrayTzumEibershten #RavLeizerKenig #Chassidus #Chassidut #JewishSpirituality #Addiction #Recovery #SelfAwareness #Awareness #Tefillah #Prayer #Gratitude #Hakaras HaTov #BenYachid #Yiddishkeit #TorahShiur #Shiur #JewishGrowth #BaalTeshuva #Sukkah #Ushpizin #EilechVanaseh

The viceroy had done everything she asked. A full year of longing. One last day — just don't sleep, and don't drink wine, because wine will put you to sleep.And on the last day he passes a spring that runs red and smells of wine, and he asks the servant, and he tastes it. And he falls into a sleep of seventy years.This shiur is the scene that follows, read word by word out of the Rebbe's own lashon.The armies pass. The servant hides. And then a carriage comes, and the king's daughter is sitting in it — and she stops. She comes down. She sits beside him. V'hikirah oso, she recognizes him. V'haysa mena'eres oso me'od — she shakes him with everything she has.V'lo ni'ar. He does not wake.And she begins to lament: how many years of labor this man gave to take me out — and because of one single day, he lost it. And she weeps, because there is enormous rachmanus on him, and on me — because I am still here, and I cannot get out.And then: acher kach lakcha mitpachas — she took the kerchief from her head, v'kasva alav b'dema'os, and she wrote on it with her tears, and she laid it down next to him. And she got up, and went back to her carriage, and drove away.What we work through:• Why did the servant hide from the soldiers? He was the one who was awake• She came down from the carriage and only then recognized him — what does that mean?• The question the room fought over: why does she have rachmanus on him first, and only then on herself? Isn't she the one who's been trapped all these years?• The answer, and it opens into everything: he is her only way out. If she has no compassion on him, there is no door• Which turns into a Torah on what an "us" actually is — two individuals who each stop thinking about themselves. Reb Avigdor Miller at the doctor: our foot is hurting. And why we protect our individuality inside a relationship even though it's the thing breaking it• Isarusa d'letata, isarusa d'leila — the awakening from below that has to come first, and why Mitzrayim was the one time it didn't• The lost princess is the voice you squash all year. She is constantly looking for an opening to wake you — and everything we do to bury her, ego first among them• Why the Shulchan Aruch says to raise your standard for Aseres Yemei Teshuva — and why that isn't a game• Thirty years of the same Al Chet. Is anything different? And why it can be different this year even though it looks the same and smells the same• Kel melech solei'ach u'mochel — the difference between selicha and mechila. Forgiving versus erasing. "I forgive but I don't forget" — and why the Ribono Shel Olam does neither• Teshuva me'ahava, and how zedonos become zechuyos• The whole arc from Rosh Chodesh Elul to Shemini Atzeres — and why the pinnacle of teshuva is the chazzan saying איה מקום כבודוShiur 21 in the series on Rebbe Nachman's Tale of the Lost Princess.#LostPrincess #BasMelech #RebNachman #RebbeNachman #RabbiNachmanOfBreslov #Breslov #Breslev #SippureiMaasiyos #Maasiyos #Teshuva #Teshuvah #TeshuvaMeAhava #YomKippur #AlChet #AseresYemeiTeshuva #Elul #RoshHashana #Selicha #Mechila #Sukkos #SimchasTorah #SheminiAtzeres #Ayeh #AyehMekomKevodo #LikuteiMoharan #LikuteyMoharan #Chassidus #Chassidut #Hisbodedus #Hitbodedut #Neshama #Ego #Shame #Humiliation #Relationships #Marriage #Isarusa #AvigdorMiller #ChasamSofer #TorahShiur #Shiur #JewishSpirituality #JewishGrowth #BaalTeshuva #Yiddishkeit #Torah #EilechVanaseh

The Rebbe writes v'zeh b'chol pa'am shebo etzel talmid chacham u'mesaper lefanav kol libo — and every time you come to a talmid chacham, you tell over before him your whole heart.He does not write kol ma'asav. Not all your actions. Kol libo. Your heart.Which is not the same avodah at all. Yesterday I fell is a report. What he is asking for is what was underneath it: what am I feeling right now, and what was I feeling before the aveira that sent me running — looking for comfort in some temporary substitute, from the lowest level of any distraction at all up to ta'avos ra'os and middos ra'os mamash.And that is hard, especially when the heart is stuffed and clogged from so many years of separation.This is the closing part of the shiur, and it stays on one thing: what the tzaddik actually gives you when you stand there.• Re'iyas pnei hatzaddik — the presence of a mother who gives unconditional love, and why you must not waste it• Don't be intimidated by the intensity of the love and tell yourself it's too much, I need a break. Stay in it.There is nothing more delightful in this world• And while he is loving you, he is breaking your ta'avos and your middos ra'os at the same time• אי״ש — ein shum yeush. The Rebbe writes ish: anyone who has not given up on himself belongs here• Contentment as the real danger — I daven with a minyan, check the box; I learn every day, check the box; and at least I'm better than that guy over there• What the tzaddik puts into you instead: a want. A desire. No — I could do this. I could connect. I could give you my heart• Telling him the things that never get said out loud: I feel lonely, I feel rejected, I feel like a failure, I can't do this again and again — and I'm here because I want to, I just don't know how• וּמְפָרֵשׁ לוֹ דֶּרֶךְ — he doesn't only repair what you broke. He gives you a way forward, so that even if you fall it isn't the same kind of fall, and even if you fail it's shogeg• Matan Torah, again. Anochi Hashem Elokecha asher hotzeisicha me'eretz Mitzrayim mibeis avadim — an event that happened once and will never happen again, and yet it happens every single time you come to the tziyun and are mitvadeh. Bringing Elokim back to Havayah. Out of your own Mitzrayim, out of the house of slavery, out of the trap of the lost princess• And what to do tonight: go to the tziyun now, go to the mikveh, daven Mincha and Maariv, say Tikkun HaKlali — and for one moment be aware that you are standing in the place of unconditional loveAibershter — give me a derech. Give me new tools, new prescriptions. I am surrendering my stupid peanut brain that always thinks it knows better.Erev Rosh Hashana, Uman.#Uman #UmanRoshHashana #Breslov #Breslev #RebNachman #RebbeNachman #RabbiNachmanOfBreslov #ViduiDevarim #MesaperLefanavKolLibo #Torah4 #LikuteiMoharan #LikuteyMoharan #ChayeiMoharan #TikkunHaKlali #Tziyun #Teshuva #Teshuvah #RoshHashana #RoshHashanah #Chassidus #Chassidut #Hisbodedus #Hitbodedut #Emuna #Emunah #Tzaddik #EinShumYeush #NoDespair #MatanTorah #Anochi #Havayah #Elokim #LostPrincess #BasMelech #JewishSpirituality #BaalTeshuva #JewishGrowth #TorahShiur #Shiur #Yiddishkeit #Mikveh #Ukraine #KesivahVachasimahTovah

Everybody knows the Rebbe's promise. Come to my kever, give a pruta l'tzedaka, say ten Kapitlach Tehillim — and be mekabel shelo yashuv od l'ivlato. And then, in his own Yiddish: ich vel zich leigen in der leng un in der breit, I will lay myself out, the length and the breadth of it, and I will pull him out by his peyos from She'ol Tachtis u'mitachtav.But there's a question in it that nobody asks out loud. If one of the three conditions is that I have to do teshuva — then what do I need the Rebbe for? If teshuva works, why am I here at all?The answer is a sicha from Lipovets, and it is one of the boldest things the Rebbe ever said. Mah atem yecholim la'asos teshuva? Do you think you can do teshuva? Do you think all of you together, with all your days and all your strength, could repair a single pegam of what you damaged? Rak ani oseh teshuva bishvilchem — I do the teshuva for you. And Hashem gave me the power to fix all of it, everything you damaged until now.And then the line that goes further still: va'afilu mei'hayom v'halah, eini makpid al hashegagos — even from today onward, I am not particular about the shegagos. Just guard yourselves from mezid.Which is where the chiddush of this shiur comes in, and it is said as a personal pshat and not as a psak. Monday morning is coming. You know what's waiting for you. You said never again and you meant it, and you also know you'll be challenged and you may well fail. So what was that moment at the tziyun worth? Perhaps this: that because you were mekabel, when you fail it isn't mezid anymore. It's shogeg. He takes the mezid away from you — and shegagos he already said he isn't makpid about.What else we go through:• She'ol Tachtis — if She'ol is a bottomless pit, what does tachtis mean? And what the Rebbe is mechadesh with u'mitachtav, a place underneath the bottom• The three shortcuts: re'iyas pnei hatzaddik · nesinas tzedaka la'tzaddik · viduy devarim lifnei talmid chacham• Rak ha'ikar, mei'atah lo sa'asu od — the one thing he asks for• Hedge your spirituality: even if you can't believe it, surrender anyway — and what the yetzer hara whispers to stop you• The biggest yetzer hara in Uman is not going to the tziyun. I'll do it tomorrow — and the twenty things that shter you• The oved Hashem who gets up chatzos fifty years, and the man who doesn't know alef beis, crying the same bitter tears side by side — because both of them feel equidistant from the Ribono shel Olam• Coming with your tzimtzum and your kedusha — bringing him the masechta you finished and the place where you feel rejected• What you tell your wife when you come home, and what you don't. How something unexplainable gets packaged into a two-minute transaction — and what it would mean to tell her you were vulnerable, that you broke down at the tziyun, that you felt unconditional love• He isn't only pulling you out of She'ol Tachtis after you die. He's pulling you out now• Uman Sheli — fifteen minutes of your time, two thousand garbage cans, and hineni muchan u'mezuman bishvilchaErev Rosh Hashana, Uman.#Uman #UmanRoshHashana #Breslov #RebNachman #RebbeNachman #RabbiNachmanOfBreslov #Teshuva #TikkunHaKlali #Tziyun #ViduiDevarim #ChayeiMoharan #LikuteiMoharan #Chassidus #Chassidut #RoshHashana #RoshHashanah #Yiddishkeit #Torah #TorahShiur #Shiur #Emuna #Emunah #Tzaddik #Hisbodedus #Hitbodedut #Mezid #Shogeg #SheolTachtis #UmanSheli #Kivrei #JewishSpirituality #BaalTeshuva #JewishGrowth #Ukraine #Breslev #NachNachma #DerechHashem

A shiur on Likutey Moharan Torah 4, given in the Heichal HaTorah in Uman during the last 48 hours before Rosh Hashanah 5787, by Nachman Frid.In Rebbe Nachman's time, his chassidim came to him before Rosh Hashanah for vidui devarim, and people called them "viduinikes." To an outsider it can sound like confession, but the Rebbe explains how it works, and it's something entirely different.In this shiur:Ein Sof and our finite world: why Elokim is the name of tzimtzum, and malchus is Hashem's hidden kingshipSheviras hakeilim, the scattered sparks, and a glimpse of the Lost Princess inside each of us"Kechu imachem devarim": bringing Elokim back to Havayah, "bayom hahu yihyeh Hashem echad ushmo echad"How the world was created through Hashem's dibbur and tzirufei osiyos, and how an aveirah turns "lo signov" into "signov""V'nechkak al atzmosav": what gets engraved on our bonesWhy vidui is said in front of the talmid chacham: he makes himself like leftovers and reaches ayin, the source of chochmah, so he can rearrange the letters back to what they were57 years of damage fixed without needing 57 more years: the three steps of getting close to the tzaddikRe'iyas pnei hatzaddik: the tzaddik is our mother, a place of unconditional love, and breaks the ta'avosNesinas tzedakah latzaddik: removes ga'avah and devarim beteilimVidui devarim: brings everything back to its source and shows us our direction in lifeA friend who hadn't kept Shabbos in three years and still came to Uman: "I'm angry at God, but the Rebbe is love"Why the Yom HaDin is a day of simchah in BreslovThis shiur is dedicated l'ilui nishmas R' Yisrael Meir Yosef ben Tzvi Yaakov (Meir Friedman) z"l, a true friend and a giver who created ways to give. Among his last words: "Make sure my son gets to Rabbeinu for Rosh Hashanah."#LikuteyMoharan #Torah4 #Uman #RoshHashanah #RebbeNachman #Breslov #Vidui #Teshuvah

Why are we really in Uman? A talk from the heart, given on Erev Rosh Hashanah 5787 at the Heichal HaTorah in Uman by Nachman Frid. Rebbe Nachman said: "Davened or not, slept or not, ate or not, just be by me on Rosh Hashanah." Why? Because the Rebbe is building something bigger than we can understand, and each of us was chosen to be part of it, with our kedushah and our tzimtzum, our strengths and our weaknesses. In this shiur: The story of getting to Uman for Rosh Hashanah 2001, just after 9/11, when no planes were flying A Likutey Moharan that sat on a shemos shelf for 10 years, and the life it changed Why learning one Torah b'iyun for months brings more growth than a quick weekly inspiration From Likutey Moharan Torah 4, the three steps of getting close to the tzaddik: Re'iyas pnei hatzaddik: coming to the tzaddik, a place of unconditional love, like a mother Nesinas tzedakah latzaddik: breaking ga'avah by learning that the giver is really the receiver Vidui devarim: "l'saper lefanav kol libo," telling him your whole heart Hishtadlus without ego, and what separates Havayah from Elokim Chayei Moharan 304: "Ich tu teshuvah far aich." I do teshuvah for you, and I have the power to fix everything up until now A new reading: at the tziyun, the Rebbe can turn our failures from b'meizid into b'shogeg The biggest yetzer hara in Uman: not going to the tziyun How to bring Uman home, to your wife, your family and your whole year Uman Sheli: giving 15 minutes of your time to the Rebbe's Rosh Hashanah 📖 Learn with us: Starting after Sukkot, we're beginning Likutey Moharan from Torah 1 and learning it in depth at least until Purim. [Add link / contact info] This shiur is dedicated l'ilui nishmas David ben Eliyahu z"l and l'ilui nishmas Yisrael Meir Yosef ben Peiga Yachet z"l. Ashreinu shezachinu l'hiskarev l'Rabbeinu! Kesivah v'chasimah tovah. #Uman #RoshHashanah #RebbeNachman #Breslov #LikuteyMoharan #Teshuvah #Uman5787 #Torah

Last week we said the Rebbe wants you to chase the sadness and force it into the simcha. This week the question is how — and the answer turns out to change what sadness even is. The Rebbe writes that the man outside the circle is b'atzvus u'marah shechora. But who said so? Maybe he's just standing outside, in a perfectly fine mood. The answer is that there is no third option. If you are not connected, you are not b'simcha — and you are already somewhere on the ladder: atzvus, marah shechora, yisurim, daagos, yagon va'anacha, disconnect. Which means yagon va'anacha does not exist on its own. It is only ever the absence of simcha. It is what fills the room when the connection isn't there. And that changes the avodah completely. You are not fighting something. You are restoring something. What we go through: • Al pi mashal, not l'mashal — why the mashal is the doorway into hasimcha and not an illustration of it • Sason v'simcha yasigu — the simcha reaching the yagon, not you reaching the simcha • Remembering sameach u'merakeid: your child's wedding, and the fact that you infected everyone in the room • You were once the man outside the circle who got pulled in — so you already know both sides of the mashal • The Pac-Man: tracing the moment of joy back to its source, getting empowered, and eating the deygus around you • Milsa d'shtusa — a spiritual defibrillator. Going down the sliding pond in Rechavia. The Rebbe, the shades drawn, and the music on twelve • Sitting with yourself for fifteen minutes, with no phone — and why for some of us that is the hardest avodah in the Torah • Why I need your recognition to feel b'simcha, and what it would mean to give myself my own • Thanking Hashem for the gloominess, because it came from the other side of sason v'simcha and it belongs in the inventory This is not a shtickel Torah. It is a workshop. #Breslov #RebNachman #LikuteiMoharan #Simcha #Hisbodedus #Chassidus #Emuna #TorahShiur

Before we go back into the Torah, we have to be clear about whose Torah we are learning. This is not just another sefer. This is not just another tzaddik. This is the tzaddik who took responsibility for every single Yid and refuses to judge him — and not only the Yid. V'ra'ah kol am ha'aretz. We look at Chassidus and think fanatics. This Rebbe was the most open-minded person there was, and he had room for everybody. And he did something nobody else did. Not Moshe Rabbeinu, not Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai. He made a promise, and he took two eidim to hold him to it — Rav Aharon the Rav and Reb Naftali. Whoever comes to my kever, gives a pruta l'tzedaka, and says ten Kapitlach Tehillim. And then the condition everybody leaves out: v'kibel alav shelo yashuv od l'ivlato — and he takes it on himself not to go back to his folly. In the Rebbe's own Yiddish: ich vel zich leigen in der leng un in der breit — I will lay myself out, the length and the breadth of it, to do this person a favor. And by the peyos, vel ich im aroisnemen — I will pull him out. From She'ol Tachtis u'mitachtav. We also go into what emuna actually is: not understanding, and believing anyway — and emuna as loyalty. Why we say va'ya'aminu ba'Hashem u'v'Moshe avdo and not "and they believed in Hashem, and they believed in Moshe." One belief, not two. Not that the tzaddik is Hashem — but that belief itself means surrendering to something higher than you. That is the place we are going into before we open the Torah. The place of surrender. #Breslov #RebNachman #Emuna #Teshuva #Uman #TikkunHaKlali #Chassidus #TorahShiur

#Breslov #LikuteyMoharan #ViduyDevarim "Fifty-seven years of middos ra'os. I have to break them all. How am I going to do this?" That is the question sitting in the middle of Torah 4, and the Rebbe does not soften it. Umi sherotzeh leilech b'derech hakodesh — tzarich l'shaber kol hamiddos ra'os. Whoever wants to walk in the way of holiness has to break every bad middah he has. And then he tells you it does not take fifty-seven years. It takes three things you are missing. Part 2 of Torah 4 at Breslov New Hempstead, given 16 Elul — inside seif ches, two weeks before Rosh Hashana. WHAT BROKE, AND WHAT AI IS ACTUALLY DOING First the mechanism, because seif ches only lands if you have it. Havayah is not a name — it is the essence. Elokim is a name, and a name is the first definition of anything. The world was made with Elokim, with midas hadin, which means tzimtzum: taking something infinite and making it finite, so that the small thing holds the big one. At the briah the two came apart, malchus fell, and we stopped seeing Hashem inside the table and the chair and the car. At Matan Torah they were one again — Anochi Hashem Elokecha — and Klal Yisrael walked out with X-ray vision, seeing the oisyos haTorah standing inside every single davar. Davar and dibbur are the same word. That is why the mon had no definition: v'lo yad'u mah hu, too spiritual and too physical at once, and they were seeing both. Then chet ha'egel. We took the tziruf of lo yihyeh lecha elohim acheirim, and we destroyed it, and we built yihyeh lecha. Every aveirah since does the same thing — takes His letters, breaks the arrangement, and builds a different building out of them. Which leads somewhere unexpected. Every advance in technology is a tziruf osiyos taken from somewhere and reassembled — the same fallen malchus, recombined by people who have no idea what they are handling. "AI is the biggest spiritual thing in the world if you think about it." Because what is Olam Haba? One hub where all of it sits as one, ten times past anything we have built. The letters are there. They are just standing in the wrong order, which is exactly why we do not see Him in them. NOT YOUR AVEIROS — YOUR LIBO So what is the repair? Vidui devarim lifnei hechacham. And read how the Rebbe writes it: mesaper lefanav kol libo. His whole HEART. Not kol ma'asav. THE THREE BECHINOS — SEIF CHES INSIDE The Gemara's mashal: a man walking b'ishon laila v'afeilah, afraid of the thorns and the ditches, afraid of the wild animals and the robbers, and on top of it he does not know which road he is on. A lantern kills the first fear. Daylight kills the second. Only a crossroads answers the third. The Rebbe reads it as the tzaddik, three times over. All bad middos hang off the four yesodos: atzvus from domem, ta'avos from tzomeach, devarim beteilim from chai, ga'avah from medaber. And note the order — we assume ta'avah is the worst of them. It is not. Devarim beteilim sits higher. · Re'iyas pnei hatzaddik — v'hayu einecha ro'os es morecha — takes out domem and tzomeach. Atzvus and ta'avos, both gone. · Tzedakah to the talmid chacham — takes out chai and medaber. Leitzanus, devarim beteilim, ga'avah. Because ein ani ela min hada'as, and poverty was never only about the bank account. · Vidui devarim — and now the talmid chacham can be madricho b'derech yeshara lefi shoresh nishmaso. You broke the middos that grow out of all four yesodos, so you have opened every layer, and he can finally reach the shoresh. THE TZADDIK IS CALLED IMA Ki hatzaddik hazeh nikra em — al shem shehu meinik l'Yisrael b'or Toraso. He is called a mother because he nurses Klal Yisrael with the light of his Torah, and Torah is called chalav. Watch a baby lying in his atzlus and his atzvus. His mother walks in and he is up and running. Not because she offered him anything — because she is his shoresh. And even when she is the one who just knocked over the Lego he spent an hour building — he still runs to her. Also inside: the three conditions at the tziyun, and the question nobody asks out loud — if l'kabel alav shelo yashuv od l'ivalto means I already did teshuvah, then what do I need the Rebbe for? Why the parashas derachim is not a choice between the talmid chacham and yom hamisa but the two of them as one thing. The chacham who made himself ayin, and what that has to do with mecheini na misifrecha. Why erev Rosh Hashana after vasikin is a madhouse in Uman. Money as identity, and tzedakah as the cheapest way to unlayer an ego. And a thirty-eighth consecutive Rosh Hashana, with an open offer: tell me your meniah after the shiur — I have heard them all, and I have chiddushim on how to get out of every one. #Breslov #LikuteyMoharan #RebbeNachman #RebNachmanOfBreslov #Uman #UmanRoshHashana #RoshHashana #Torah4 #SeifChes #ViduyDevarim #AnochiHashem #Tzaddik #Chassidus #Teshuva #Tzedakah #Middos #Atzvus #Gaava #NewHempstead #Shiur #TorahShiur #Elul #Emuna #JewishSpirituality

#Breslov #LikuteyMoharan #UmanRoshHashanaIn 1958 a twelve-year-old boy asked his mother if he could daven Rosh Hashana with the Breslover chassidim on the Lower East Side. She said no.So he went to the Mir, and he closed his eyes, and he imagined himself standing with them. And then he asked Hashem for one thing: that next year he should be by the Rebbe's tziyun.This was Cold War Russia. There was no getting into the country, let alone to Uman. Nobody was talking about Uman at all. He got there in 1969.That boy was the maggid shiur's father. The letter he wrote about it — to Moshe Yaakov Eisner a"h, an elter bochur already learning in Eretz Yisrael — turned up years later.Part 1 of Torah 4 at Breslov New Hempstead, given 16 Elul, exactly two weeks before Rosh Hashana."WHO SAYS?"The shiur opens on a question from the room, and the answer goes straight at the word itself. Who says Reb Nachman is true? Who says the Tikkun HaKlali works? Who says Reb Noson didn't write Likutey Moharan himself?The word "who says" is already kefirah. Because "who says" means: I do not want to believe, I want to understand.And the first platform of Yiddishkeit is not understanding. It is belief — and belief means I do not understand. Only from that platform does Hashem give the matanah we ask for three times a day: da'as. You start understanding from the platform of not understanding. Tachlis hayedia shelo neida.Which is the whole problem of this Torah, because Torah 4 opens k'she'adam yodea — when a person KNOWS that everything that happens to him is for his good. Knowing, not believing. The Rebbe never says the word emunah here. And yet the entire mechanism that gets you to that yedia runs through emunah and through vidui devarim to the tzaddik.THE TRAILEREverybody has had the moment: that was Hashem. That was clear Hashem.That moment is a sneak preview of a trailer of a tiny piece of the movie. Because for that one thing to happen to you at that hour, the whole briah had to be built a certain way. The dots go all the way back to brias ha'olam — and you will never see far enough back to watch them connect.ROSH HASHANA ON SHABBOSTwo weeks out — and really two weeks to the second day, which is when the ungezetzt actually starts. The first day everybody is still excited. The second day your head is already leaving, and you start asking: what did I do here? What did I get?A year when Rosh Hashana falls on Shabbos has no shofar and no tashlich the first day. October 7th was such a year. COVID was such a year. And so were good years.So what makes the difference? Not the answer you would expect — the answer given here is about what you bring, and why you came.MEN HOT ZICH GEFREGTAnd then the thing the maggid shiur heard from his shver in the name of Rav Gedalya Kenig zecher tzaddik livracha, about the years the tziyun was shut and there was not even a minyan there:מען האט זיך געפרעגט דער רבי רשות פאר מען האט פארמאכטThey asked the Rebbe's permission before they closed it.Sit with what kind of emunah says a sentence like that.Also inside: the kibbutz on 16th Avenue and 55th Street, fifty or sixty men, and a father telling his son the whole world is going to come — while the son, embarrassed, looked around the room and counted. Reb Shmuel Breines and the Breines boys before Ne'ilah, and Likutey Tefillos ayin-vav, and being told that if you say it you will stand at the tziyun next year. Reb Tzvi Aryeh Rosenfeld's Talmud Torah for boys who went to public school, and what came out of it. The Rebbe and Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai — mi ron, who will sing when they cannot come to me — and ani ron. And 216 years later, fifty thousand people, thirty hours of travel, to a town in the middle of nowhere.יא געדאווענט נישט געדאווענט, יא געשלאפן נישט געשלאפן, יא געגעסן נישט געגעסן — אבי זיי ביי מיר ראש השנה.He is not asking for your feelings. He is not asking for your da'as. He is asking for your presence.Part 2 goes inside seif ches.#Breslov #LikuteyMoharan #RebbeNachman #RebNachmanOfBreslov #Uman #UmanRoshHashana #RoshHashana #Torah4 #AnochiHashem #Emuna #EmunaPeshuta #ViduyDevarim #Tzaddik #Chassidus #NewHempstead #Shiur #TorahShiur #TzviAryehRosenfeld #GedalyaKenig #Elul #JewishSpirituality

#Breslov #LostPrincess #SippureiMaasiyos"Who gave you the right to touch my Pandora's box?"Facing shame is the hardest thing there is, and the reason is that we do not face it — we bury it. Sleep is the best trick: whatever you did, you go to sleep, and by the next morning it is locked away. Two sleeps and you are good to go. And then somebody walks into your life and triggers the exact place you buried, and you are certain they had no right.This shiur opens there, with a story from that week the maggid shiur says he is embarrassed to tell — "and I love sharing about me, because it opens things up." I had the biggest ego in the world. I was gifted with a mouth that could convince anybody of anything. And I am telling you that I was wrong — not because I thought I was wrong. I thought I was right. And it could be that I was right. But I was wrong even when I was right, because the way you act when you are right does not give you a pass. There is no pass.From there into the maaseh.THE LOST PRINCESSThe Rebbe tells you the ending before he tells you the story — the greatest storytelling in the world — and then spends eight pages on the search. Through the deserts, the forests, the fields. He does not find her. So he goes back to start again, and this time he notices a path on the side he had walked straight past the first time.The castle. The soldiers he was too intimidated to approach, who do not stop him. Room after room until the grand ballroom — the music, the delicacies, the king on his throne. And the announcement, and the queen.WHO THE PRINCESS ISThe Shechina. Kudsha Brich Hu and the Shechina — the two energies — and the Shechina is in everything: domem, tzomeach, chai, medaber. V'asu li mikdash v'shachanti b'socham — b'toch kol echad v'echad, inside each and every one. So where is the golus? In us. The golus is the place where a man is cut off from his own self, and the Aibishter is in pain over it.And the Sheni L'Melech does not wait to be asked. There is no dialogue in the story. He sees the king in that pain and he gets up on his own: I cannot take seeing you like this. I will go.THE CHIDDUSH — UBIKESH SHEYITNU LOHere is the piece to listen for. He asked that they GIVE him — u'vikesh sheyitnu lo. Not sheyiten, singular, one sum handed over. Sheyitnu — ongoing, constant, again and again. He does not know how long the search will take or what it will cost, so he does not ask for an amount. He asks for a connection that keeps giving.Because if the king had simply handed him the money, he would have had the money and lost the king — and the king in pain is the whole engine of the search. Take away the connection and there is nothing driving him to look.And the same word, u'vikesh, is used nine times in that one paragraph — each time meaning something different.Also inside: ma'os l'tzois and the contract we signed; geulah pratis and geulah klalis; chatzos as the third halacha in Shulchan Aruch and why nobody does it; Reb Nachman's chatzos — six hours after tzeis hakochavim — and getting up at three in the morning to say one kapitel, Al Naharos Bavel.It ends on gratitude. You stare at the one black dot and never count the 5,999 white boxes. Be grateful. U'vakeish — request. V'holeich l'vakeish — and go on searching.May we all be zoche to find our lost princess.#Breslov #LostPrincess #SippureiMaasiyos #RebbeNachman #RebNachmanOfBreslov #BasHaMelech #Shechina #Chassidus #Teshuva #Shame #Ego #Gratitude #Chatzos #Tikkun #Shiur #TorahShiur #JewishSpirituality #Emuna #Hisbodedus #GeulahPratis

Everyone knows you're supposed to be b'simcha. Almost nobody is told what to do with the sadness that's still standing there.Rebbe Nachman opens Torah 23 Tinyana with a mashal: a circle of Yidden dancing, and one person standing outside, and the ones inside grab him and drag him in against his will until he's dancing with them. And then he tells us the circle is inside you. When you feel simcha, the marah shechora steps aside on its own — it can't coexist with joy. But that's the small thing. The Rebbe wants more: chase it. Run after the sadness, snatch it, force it into the simcha — until the marah shechora itself turns into simcha and becomes part of your inventory of joy.This is the second shiur on the Torah, and it's mostly questions. That's deliberate — the point isn't to collect answers, it's to live in the kasha until the Rebbe answers you himself.What we go through:• Why the Rebbe opens b'inyan hasimcha — a phrase he uses nowhere else — and then says not one word about simcha before handing us a mashal• Al pi mashal, not l'mashal — and the strangeness of a mashal for simcha that is itself simcha• The chart: sasson, simcha, hasimcha, sameach, chedva, kedusha on one side — yagon va'anacha, atzvus, marah shechora, yisurim, daagos, sitra achra on the other• Sasson is external, simcha is internal; yagon is the ache, anacha is the krechtz• One thought at a time — but many feelings at once, and which feelings cannot coexist• Sasson v'simcha yasigu — a new pshat: not that you attain the simcha, but that the simcha reaches your yagon• The yagon va'anacha of the sitra achra that refuses to be a merkava — and why it has to be forced• Chotfin · machnisin · umachrichin — three stages of b'al korcho, and what state the person is in at each one• Imahem gam kein — the diyuk that carries the whole Torah: I was outside the circle too. I have the same pulls. I just found something, and it isn't my light, it's ours• The white dots and the black dots• how do you actually do this? — and the answer: hisbodedus, and not hatzileini hoshieini• Mesaper lefanav kol libo — not what you did, what you're feeling. Our relationships are transactional; ego talks to ego. "What are you feeling right now?" opens the door for the real you• V'ha'arev na, k'ish echad b'lev echad, and why v'ahavta l'reiacha kamocha is literal• Why Ponevezh was the day I stopped learningWomen's shiur. Part of an ongoing series on Torah 23 Tinyana — there are 125 questions on this Torah, and we're not going to answer all of them.#Breslov #RebNachman #LikuteiMoharan #Simcha #Chassidus #Hisbodedus #Emunah #TorahShiur #JewishWomen

#Breslov #LikuteyMoharan #ViduyDevarim Two words in Torah 4 make people flinch: vidui devarim — spoken confession, in front of a talmid chacham. It sounds like something we are not. This shiur is the long answer to why it isn't, and to what the Rebbe is actually asking a person to do. A full shiur on Likutey Moharan, Torah 4 — Anochi Hashem Elokecha — given at Breslov New Hempstead in the weeks before Rosh Hashana. The Rebbe opens by saying a person has to KNOW — not believe — that everything that happens to him is for his good, and that knowing it is a taste of Olam Haba. From there the shiur builds the whole mechanism: how Havayah and Elokim came apart at the briah, how every davar in the world is holding a tziruf of osios haTorah, what an aveira actually breaks, why the letters land on a person's bones, and how vidui devarim in front of a tzaddik who has made himself ayin draws those letters back out and rebuilds malchus dikedusha. Along the way: — ROSH HASHANA 5762. Six weeks after burying his father, no flights out of America, driving to Canada and being turned back at the border — and the LOT counter at the airport that opened the whole thing up. What Reb Luzer zichrono livracha said at the window in Uman when he finally got there. — IS VIDUI THE OPPOSITE OF TORAH 282? If Reb Nachman tells us to find the nekuda tova, how does he also tell us to stand and name what we did wrong? Two Toros, two different avodos — and why we do not mix them. — THE VIDUI NOBODY SAYS OUT LOUD. "I come here every year and promise I will never do it again, and I come back with worse. So who am I fooling? Am I using the Rebbe as a pass?" Said in the room, not smoothed over. — YOU ARE IN SURGERY. The first hirhur teshuva a person ever had — the one he squashed and forgot — and why the whole operation started there. — "HE TALKS TO YOU." How a tzaddik who is not here gives a person a derech. Ends with shailos from the chevra, l'chaim, and Umen Umen Rosh Hashana.

Elul is taught to most of us as pachad — dread, the Days of Awe closing in. Chassidus says the opposite. Ani l'dodi v'dodi li: the King takes off the uniform and comes out to the field to be with us. You take one step toward Him, and He comes the rest of the way.But what does it actually take to close that step? Reb Nachman gives the answer in four words — ikar haTeshuvah she'yishma bizyono, yiddom v'yishtok. The main thing in teshuvah is to hear your own humiliation, accept it, and stay quiet.In this shiur we work through why that is, and why it's harder than anything else we're asked to do:• Yira isn't fear — it's awe, and what an eved Hashem really is• Vayidom Aharon — why yiddom means acceptance before it means silence• Shuva and busha — the same letters, rescrambled• The vort on ki seitzei la'milchama: shivyo as roshei teivos for she'yishma bizyono yiddom v'yishtok• Ego = Edge God Out — how the "I" got built in the first place, out of a shame we refused to face• Shminis shebe'shminis — the eighth of an eighth you're allowed to keep• The scoreboard: transactional relationships, ahava she'tluya b'davar, and why in an "us" it's always fifty-fifty• People-pleasing as a form of taking• The hardest question of the night, from the floor: if Hashem is all-loving, why does closeness have to come through humiliation?• Where the 2-7 unsuited hand comes in — and turning that feeling into tefillah• Hatakiruni — how facing shame gives you the peek at the lost princessGiven over in the Eilech V'anaseh chabura, Chodesh Elul.#Elul #Breslov #Teshuva #RebNachman #Chassidus #RoshHashana #LikuteiMoharan