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 […]

Calling for ‘war’…. was wrong

Remember, all those people 'calling for war' at the beginning of this nightmare? While Rav Berland was calling for massive amounts of tehillim - a whole book a day! - and calling for no troops to be sent into Gaza at all, because they'd just…

Narc Traits and the Breslov Antidote – #1 – Criticism

I feel like I’ve been waiting a decade to really starting writing these posts. BH, they are finally getting done! OK, so what I thought is that we will examine each key ‘narc’ trait, as described by Light’s House (see the archived…

Floating

I just got back from two nights up North. We were by the Kinneret, not mamash in Kiryat Shemona, but we went to Meron, went past Tsfat, went up to Katzrin.... Everything was peaceful and calm. And beautiful. ==== Sure, there were…

Great Jewish Music Interlude: Yossef Assayag

Now and then, I want to start also introducing the English-speakers to more Israeli 'soul music'. So, meet Yossef Assuyag: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xH1NChhGUwY ==== Great Jewish lyrics, with some wicked electric guitar licks.... What…

Don’t be afraid

The Rav has been very 'strong' the last few days - and tonight was no exception. Singing loudly, with a very strong voice - and the singing and dancing before and after the prayers down on Ido HaNavi has had more 'pep' than usual, too, this…

Dealing with ‘narc abuse’ – the beginning of the discussion

Leaving the 'narc paradigm' behind Probably the best way of starting off this whole megillah of how to deal with extricating our souls out of the ‘narc paradigm’ that most of us are dealing with, from the very moment we’re born, is to…