Be strong
What the Rav said: A person just needs one word of encouragement. The moment someone tells him, you are strong, he becomes even stronger....
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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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Under the surface
What the Rav said: If a person has in his heart, some type of rebellion, some type of conflict, Hashem is not interested in having that...
A new beginning
What the Rav said: Every day we start anew. It’s forbidden to think about what happened yesterday. Yesterday, I didn’t learn, I didn’t...
Jail break
What the Rav said: Every fall will turn into an ascent. This is all ‘falling down for the sake of being raised up’. All the fallings are...
Hit by the flood
What the Rav said: A person wants to go into his Succah, and it starts to rain. Suddenly, a flood hits him, he’s soaked from head to toe....
Davka, now you'll fall even more!
What the Rav said: If a person goes to Uman, it doesn’t mean that now he won’t fall any more. On the contrary, the fact that he was in...
Raising the sparks
What the Rav said: The wicked people ask, ‘Master of the World, why didn’t You create us to be Tzadikim? Why did You create us to be...
Moon shine
What the Rav said: When the moon is at its smallest, then it’s the closest to the sun. When the moon is completely full, then it’s...
Four o'clock in the afternoon...
What the Rav said: [One of the students of the Rav explains:] When I was going through a difficult period and had a lot of tests, I once...
While you're waiting...
What the Rav said: A person needs to know that things move very slowly. Rav Natan says avodat Hashem (serving G-d) doesn’t come in a...
Olam hafuch...
What the Rav said: The Ba’al Shem Tov says that pride is the worst thing in the world. Tzadikim say that they are more afraid of mitzvot...
The biggest souls have the biggest fight on their hands
What the Rav said: Rabbi Pinchas Koricher explains that it’s specifically the biggest souls in the world which separate themselves from...
You know what Hashem wants?
What the Rav said: Hashem just wants to help you, to make you like Moshe Rabbenu, really. You don’t know when you’re going to become...
Thoughts of despair are worse than sins!
What the Rav said: A person falls, he can’t do it anymore. So, he starts again anew. Every day a new start. But, if a person says, “I’m...
Now's not the time to get sad about it
What the Rav said: When the Rebbe (Rabbi Nachman) spoke about Shmirat Enayim (guarding one’s eyes), it was so that you would start to...
Like clay in the hands of a potter
What the Rav said: Everything that happens to a person in like pottery clay. So long as the clay stays wet, you can make whatever shape...
Wherever Hashem puts me, that’s ok
The Rav said: A person always wants to be ahead of everyone else. Yaakov Avinu says the opposite, “the last one is beloved” (acharon,...
There are no more wicked people
What the Rav said: Rabbi Nachman teaches us in Lesson 282 that there is no such thing as a wicked person in Am Yisrael! There is no such...
Slowly, slowly
What the Rav said: Rabbi Nachman said, “there is a concept that everything turns out for the best”. The Rebbe said, even if I would do...