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An Injection of Motivation

While it is true that self-criticism has an important place, it is a big mistake to think that spiritual progress is going to happen from criticism.

Sukkot and Simchat Torah

Hoshana Rabba

By Breslev Israel staff
Update date: 10/8/2020, 11:27

Although it is part of the intermediate days of Sukkot, Hoshana Rabba is a Yom Tov unto itself. Its source lies in the traditions of the Prophets...

Uncomfortable Comfort

By Pinney Wolman
Update date: 10/16/2019, 08:35

Sukkot can be my practice of happily doing Hashem's Will even when I'm uncomfortable!

Simchat Torah: Barometer of Joy

By Rabbi Lazer Brody
Update date: 10/7/2020, 09:02

Simchat Torah is the time to harvest happiness – "joy in the heart" – for the whole year; even Rebbe Nachman danced alone with pure joy of the Torah...

Simchat Beit Hashoeva

By Breslev Israel staff
Update date: 10/10/2019, 15:33

It was a mass celebration with Sages juggling lit torches, Levites singing songs, and the water libation ceremony.

The Joy of Sukkot

By Rebbetzin Rena Silber
Update date: 9/29/2020, 11:04

…each night of the seven nights of Sukkot expresses Hashem’s love in a different way...

Restart

By Tziporah Barabi
Update date: 9/29/2020, 11:10

From Rosh Chodesh Elul until Yom Kippur we all become so forgiving to everyone. But what happens the day after? That’s when we have to restart, once again…

Sweet Erosion

By Dovber HaLevi
Update date: 10/31/2017, 21:42

The soul is forever attracted to and gravitating toward the Almighty. It desires holiness at all times. We are created to be happy, holy, and close to our Creator…

Miracle in the Desert

By Dovber HaLevi
Update date: 10/4/2020, 09:21

We eat, sleep, and sit in tents. We are helpless to the elements, slaves to the whims of nature. We are babies in our Father's arms, completely dependent on His mercy…

A Dry Succah

By Rabbi Tzvi Meir Cohn
Update date: 10/4/2020, 09:03

Sometimes, in their quest to be "frum", people forget that their tongues must be holy; especially on Succoth, one should never discredit another person…

The Happy Pill

By Rabbi Lazer Brody
Update date: 10/1/2020, 08:15

In the time of the Holy Temple, our people had everything. Yet, rather than appreciating what they had, they complained and looked for joy elsewhere…

Willow in the Wind

By Rabbi Lazer Brody
Update date: 5/15/2020, 12:08

Kalman looked up from his butcher block and he saw some menacing Cossacks in the doorway. "Jhid," they sneered in Russian, "the day of your funeral has arrived"...

Rebbe Nachman on Succoth

By Breslev Israel staff
Update date: 9/25/2020, 15:02

Rebbe Nachman has some very special things to say about Succoth and its related mitzvoth, for on Succoth, a person merits Divine abundance of all kinds...

Fun or Joy?

By Rabbi David Charlop
Update date: 10/1/2020, 08:16

Having a couple of beers with the boys? You could have fun but don’t count on a deep sense of simcha. Fun is surface and short term, simcha runs deep...

A House of Prayer

By Rabbi Shalom Arush
Update date: 9/29/2020, 11:19

Since the "Clouds of Glory", the Divine Presence envelops a person's Succa, sitting in the Succa is most conducive for prayer, especially personal prayer...

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