Rav Berland’s Search for the ‘Inner Dimension’ – Part 2

The second and final part of this awesome shiur. You can read Part 1 HERE. For me, it’s been very enlightening to understand just how ‘dead’ Breslov chassidut really was, until R Berland came and blew new life into it. Ashrenu, that we have a Rav like this in our generation. It’s also wonderful how the Rav […]

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Count Khrapovitch, the Alter Rebbe – and more Frankists

I went back to that interview with the Alter Rebbe from the ‘Czarist Archives’, to see if there were more historical details to tease out of it. (You can read it HERE.) In particular, I wanted to take a closer look at this paragraph: My…

Yud Tet Kislev, some real historical context

I woke up today to a text, in Hebrew, from a nice lady which gave me a whole shpiel about ‘Yud tet Kislev’ in Hebrew. I used to think all this OTT ‘celebration’ of the 19th of Kislev, the day the Alter Rebbe was released from jail (the…

Seeing the good, in the most difficult experiences

I just got back from a one day little break in the Shomron. My kid got us a night in a zimmer to say thank you for all the TLC we tried to give her after the birth of her baby. It had a pool... it had a firepit... it had a great view of…

The Chacham Tzvi’s parents – more comments from the Rav

Some more very interesting alt-history from the Rav. Enjoy! == Zevulun was born ‘without a heart’. He was born ‘without a heart’![1] Like the Chacham Tzvi, who permitted a chicken that had no heart.[2] [After this] he had…

Watch: The power of hitbodedut

Again, just doing some experiments here. I haven't got to the part yet where this video has audio, but I'm working on learning that in the next day or two. But look how powerful this is - this clip is about the power of hitbodedut to turn things…

AI: you have to use the yetzer’s own sword to kill it

Long-time readers have probably been noticing I've been going through a lot of 'stuff' the last couple of months. This is probably a natural reaction to all the 'stuff' all of us have been going through the last few years, plus all the 'stage…

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