Simply Tsfat, the premier Breslov music trio, will usher in the simchah of Adar, as well as the simchah shel mitzvah of helping our brothers and sisters in Eretz Yisrael.This mini-concert is a fund-raiser for Eizer L’Shabbos, which provides weekly food packages to the needy, under the directorship of Rabbi Binyomin Rosenberg, shlita. Read More »

From The Flame of the Heart , translations from Reb Noson’s Likutey Tefilos. Peaceful Dialogue Master of peace, “King unto Whom peace belongs,” may it be Your will to bestow peace on Your People, Israel. Read More »

Abridgment of recent article in Hamodiah Harav Moshe Wolfson, shlita, spoke Tuesday night in a rare mid-week assembly for his kehillah, Emunas Yisroel in Boro Park, asking bluntly why there is no greater uproar within the community over the potential for war over Iran’s nuclear ambitions. Read More »

New JerseyThursday evening Feb 23For details, contact: Sam Kamaraskamara1@yahoo.com917-318-7076New YorkSunday Feb 26 through Thursday March 1For details, contact: David Schwekeshotaschnops@gmail.com917-796-6473We hope to have more information later. Read More »

The Purpose of the Commandments Rabbi Noson Sternhartz, Likutey Halakhos, Arev 3: 8Translated by Dovid Sears The purpose of the soul’s descent to this world is to give birth to ratzon : the deepest will and desire of the soul for G-d. The beginning of Divine service and the end of Divine service is this. The main thing is ratzon . Read More »

Moshe Entered the Mist Likutey Moharan I, 115Translated by Rabbi Moshe Mykoff Annotated by Rabbi Chaim Kramer© Breslov Research Institute In this online version, we have presented the translation in bold and the commentary in non-bold typeface, except for headings. Read More »

From Likutey Moharan II, 71 “Portions ( chavalim ) have befallen me in pleasant places” (Psalms 16). [" Chavalim ," portions, may be homiletically rendered as " chovlim ," disturbances.] These “disturbances” are conflicted states of mind, which correspond to countries outside the holiness of the Land of Israel. Read More »

Translated by Rabbi Aryeh Kaplan, Rabbi Nachman’s Wisdom (Breslov Reasearch Institute)Sichos HaRan, sec. 78 Fairness exists everywhere.One may commit every outrage but still have a sense of fairness. It may be blunted, but it still exists. There are people who are immediately sensitive to all unfairness. Read More »

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Illustrations by Dovid Sears © Mesorah Publications From Rabbi Avraham Sternhartz, Tovos Zichronos 2 “ Emor El HaKohanim ,” the second lesson in Likutey Moharan, was given on a Shabbos during the winter of 5561 (1800-01). Rebbe Nachman was not quite thirty years old. Read More »

Illustration by Aharon Friedman(c) Breslov Research Institute Translated by Rabbi Avraham GreenbaumFrom “ The Essential Rabbi Nachman ” There was a certain king who thought to himself: “Who in the world has fewer worries than me? I have everything good: I am the king and the ruler.”He decided to investigate if this was true. Read More »

From the Canfei Nesharim website : Trees, Torah and Caring for the Earth By Dr. Akiva Wolff and Rabbi Yonatan Neril [1] Tu b’Shevat, “the New Year of the Tree,” [2] has become known as a day for raising Jewish-environmental awareness. Read More »

This essay first appeared on “A Simple Jew ,” a Breslov-oriented blog, Chanukah 5768 / 2007. It has been slightly modified for this posting. Read More »

DATE: Tuesday, February 7TIME: 7: 30 – 10: 30 pmLOCATION: Khal Bnei Yisroel, 884 East 7th St (between Foster and Ave. H)PLEASE RSVP by Feb 5 (718) 813- 5386Rabbi and Mrs Tzvi MandelCouples $36Singles (men and women) $18Divrei Torah. Participants read from special Tu BiShvat “Hagaddah. Read More »

By Dovid Sears Rebbe Nachman has many profound things to say about tzedakah (charity) and both its immediate, practical effects, as well as its “ripple” effects, its cosmic repercussions. To present some of these ideas, I’d like to discuss a section of Torah Lesson 13 from his magnum opus, Likutey Moharan . Read More »

By Dovid Sears Review: In Part I , we learned that in order to cause Divine Providence to become fully revealed in our lives, we must overcome the craving for wealth. This is accomplished through tzedakah , usually translated as “charity,” but which in an extended sense might be rendered as “giving” or “altruism. Read More »

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Received by email from Reb Dovid FriedmanL’iluy Nishmas Ahron ben Dovid Shimon Halevi, z’l – 9 Kislev 5771L’iluy Nishmas Moshe Chaim, z’l, ben Velvel Berel, n’y – 8 Kislev 5772 Reb Mendel Riminover’s Segulah There is a well known custom to say Parshas ha-Mon “shnayim mikra v’echad targum” on the Tuesday of Parshas Beshalach. Read More »

Received from Rabbi Yitzchok Mordechai Feder of Congregation Aish Kodesh, Woodmere, NY: Regarding the plague of Darkness, the Torah says: “One man did not see his brother, and no one rose up from his place for three days. But for all Bnei Yisrael there was light in their dwellings. Read More »

(c) Dovid Sears Selections from the first chapters of Compassion for Humanity with additional material newly translated for this posting. Ben Zoma used to say: Who is wise? One who learns from all people … Who is honored? One who honors all people ( Mishnah: Avos 4: 1). Read More »