What happened on the 18th of Elul, otherwise known as "Chai Elul" in the Chassidic world? Why do many Chassidim and other followers recognize this day as an important day in the Jewish calendar? Rav Yehuda HaKohen clarifies the events of this day and how we can use the events...
Who Are We to Judge: Seeing the Good in Ourselves
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Who are We to Judge 3: The to Seeing Good in Others is really to See Good in Ourselves
Rebbe Nachman explains in this peice the importance of Simcha, how much we need to be careful to ensure that we don't go down a path that leads us to sadness and feeling bad about ourselves. This depends on us seeing good in ourselves, appreciating and loving ourselves. And this...
“Chovat Hatalmidim 55: Waking Up Our Souls!”
In this shiur, we explain that the underlying purpose of all the Mitzvot, and Torah is that we should be concious and spiritually awake. We all inherited intrinsic Godliness from Mount Sinai. It is imprinted into the very essence of who we are. If we don't connect to it, we feel...
How do we convert spirituality into action?
The Rebbe from Piasetzchna, the Warsaw Ghetto Rebbe , summarizes his book Chovat Hatalmidim (duties of the students), by giving us the tools how to take our values, and spiritual attributes we learned about and manifest them in our actions. Knowing the Jewish values and Middot is not enough, the...
