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Chodesh Tov! Happy Birthday Rabbeinu HaKadosh!

A Gut Choidesh.

Rabbeinu Nachman MiBreslov, Rebbe of Rebbes whose fire will burn until Mashiach.
I would be so lost in all aspects of Avodas Hashem without his advice. Where would we be without him? Would we know how to get through a yerida? Would we know how to daven at all? Would we be Jewish?

There is a lot to say about Rabbeinu for his birthday which falls out on on rosh hodesh Nissan which is the rosh hashana for kings (when else would he be born?). I will focus on a simple aspect of his thought but which is so sorely needed these days. Hopefully we all know Likutey Moharan Reish Pey Bet. The Rebbe explains that we must judge everyone favorably including ourselves, finding the good points and through this process do we turn all evil into good.

I see a lot of people, including myself, complaining about evil sometimes. It can happen if someone isn't as "frum" as the next or part of his religious world view etc. In fact, I know some people who think they bolster their own spirituality by bringing down other people. Rabbeinu teaches us the only way to break evil and make it holy is by focusing on the good. The Rebbe says, even if the person is completely evil, one must find the good within him and that will make him holy. We have to stop worrying about all problems we face today and start focusing on the positive things that this world that Hashem has put us in has to offer. We won't bring Mashiach by bringing people down, but by raising them up and showing that even the biggest sinner is close to the One above.

This leads to another extremely important Torah of Rabbeinu. The Rebbe said "a little is also good." We usually think that if our davening or learning wasn't so great then it was worthless. The Rebbe is teaching that every small good we do is extremely important and powerful. I read a maysa that about a ball tshuva who was having a yerida and drove to the beach on Shabbos. He bought a coke and slowly said a bracha on it. His friends made fun of him and said "You're on a beach on Shabbos and saying a bracha!? The baal tshuva's Breslov teacher told him later that he was totally right and one should never allow anything to stop him from doing any ounce of good, especially aveiras.

We should be zocheh to follow in the path of Rabbeinu, in finding the good in others and ourselves.

Tatti Tatti

Sometimes when I ask Hashem for help, I anticipate it being fulfilled through supernatural miracles. Hahsem does not talk or help me through fiery chariots, instead through people.  

When I Daven for patience, Hashem doesn't just give me the trait of patience.  Rather, Hashem puts me in a situation to either attain this quality or to disregard it. For example, there was this nasty lady in front of me in CVS causing a commotion. Instead of being tolerate, I was annoyed and frustrated. Hashem answered my tefilos by giving me a chance to incorporate patience into my life, but it is up to me acquire it (and if i don't, there are always more and more opportunities. A few days later I was in the same situation is a supermarket. I just sang, while the lady was bickering about her coupon. Just don't give up).

THE MEANING OF PRAYER AND MEDITATION:

PRAYER= asking god for things we want

MEDITATION=listening to what god wants us to do.

   

HASHEM IS HERE

“Hashem is Here” by Uncle Moshie.

Hashem is here, Hashem is there, Hashem is truly everywhere.

Hashem is here, Hashem is there, Hashem is truly everywhere.

Up, up, down, down, right, left and all around, here, there and everywhere,

that’s where he can be found.

Most of us were raised singing the awesome song of uncle moshie, “hashem is here.”

For the past year I have been trying to make a correlation of two stories of the Kotzker rebbi (Rabbi Menachem Mendel Morgensztern of Kotzk,1787-1859. He is a talmud of Reb Simcha bunim.His major students were: Rabbi Mordechai Yosef Leiner of Izbict, author of the Mai Shaloach, Rabbi Avrohom Bornsztain, author of Avnei Nezer, The first Rebbe of Ger, Rabbi Yitzchak Meir Alter or the Chidushei Harim. )

Two great stories of The Kotzker.

    When the rebbi was a child, Rav Baruch of Mezibush came to visit the town. Rav menachem was known as a young Eloy (genius, don't know how to spell) and Rav Barach went to test the child. Rav Baruch said the the child, "I will give you a coin if you can tell me where Hashem is?" Rav Mecham answered sharply, "I will give you two coins if you can tell me when hashem is not." 

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n the rebbi's later years he was asked the same question. His response was different. He said to the talmud " Hashem is where ever you let him in."

As humans, we ignorantly think that we control the world. We selfishly forget our creator. We instill in our minds and illusionary concept, "I am in control."

Hashem is everywhere regardless, however when we destroy this imaginary notion of control and give control over to hashem. We can live in reality of being one with Hashem. This can only be done through gratitude and the realization that everything is a gift from Hashem.

"LET GO AND LET HASHEM"

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