You can still yearn
What the Rav said: A person needs to always know, whether he’s learning or he’s not learning, there’s no difference. Right now, he needs...
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Welcome to Words from The Rav. A place to share the Rav's words of Torah, Chiddushim and Advice.
Rabbi Nachman teaches the importance of reviewing and discussing the words of the Tzaddik.
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Hold on. He's coming.
What the Rav said: The Tzadik calls out to a person. He has shofars. He calls out all the time. Just hold on, I’m coming to you! This is...
Falling down
What the Rav said: Rabbi Natan said that all the sins will become merits. Because sins are only to give a person a heart of flesh and...
The real me
What the Rav said: A person suffers from despair. He sees that his learning isn’t going well. He’s already fallen into despair. But, the...
Hard to focus?
What the Rav said: A person has confusions and distractions. He can’t focus, he can’t even see the letters. This is very different to...
The wake-up call
What the Rav said: They’re not out to break you. They want you to make teshuva. A person who gets a hit, he thinks that they’re out to...
The lightness of youth
What the Rav said: A person needs to go back their youth, to the longing and yearning of childhood. Because, until the age of 20, they...
Deep roots
What the Rav said: A person has many great obstacles to face. Sometimes from his father, his wife, his in-laws or other people. Other...
Break. Dance.
What the Rav said: Through ‘milta de’shtuta’ (doing something silly), we trick Lavan the Aramean. He [Lavan] comes to a person with all...
Light in the darkness
What the Rav said: Rav Natan says that our work is just to be happy. Just simple happiness. Because a person is always sad and depressed....
Shake it off
What the Rav said: Every Jew wakes up in the morning and says, Elokai, neshama she natta bi, tehorah he. (My G-d, the soul which you gave...
Grab some new thoughts
What the Rav said: A person needs to make sure that he has new thoughts every day, new ideas, good new thoughts, new emunah, new hope....
What's your weapon?
What the Rav said: It’s well known that a person needs to be very careful to be happy always, and to distance himself from any type of...
Back to school...
What the Rav said: The more difficult it is, the greater the reward. ‘Lefum tza’ara agrah’ – according to the suffering is the reward...
Who gets to crown Moshiach?
What the Rav said: The final redemption will come only through the simple Jews. Just like it says in ‘Kochavei Ohr’ about the story of...
The power of a broken heart
What the Rav said: All the sins a person does, they’re only to give him a broken heart. All the sins a person does in his life are in...
Focus on the good
What the Rav said: Rabbi Menachem Mendel from Vitebsk says that all the bad thoughts and arrogance that a person has comes from not being...
Smart or simple?
What the Rav said: If you love simple Jews, then you’re included together with the simple Jews. You come in, you see a simple Jew saying...
Who's driving?
What the Rav said: In the Midrash Rivash (by Rabbi Yisrael Baal Shem Tov) it says a person who gets his vitality only from ‘big things’...
Happiness in a nutshell
What the Rav said: If a person makes teshuva, then no judgement can rule over him. He’s got a beard, he’s got payot, and he’s got...