The Treasure
I have succeeded in instilling in you a principle, said Rabbi Nachman: Do not deceive yourselves!
Rabbi Israel Isaac Besancon
I have succeeded in instilling in you a principle, said Rabbi Nachman: Do not deceive yourselves!
Wherever we happen to be, there is something important for us to do, even if we don't know exactly what it is.
From then on, He renews the world in order to offer to those who wish it, at each instant, a new opportunity to unveil His Presence. For each new day...
By turning joy into a duty and not an optional ideal, he taught us anew the precondition to any step towards good...
When anyone, even a person lying at the bottom-most rung of the ladder, in the mire, wishes to pull himself up even a little, he will find himself...
"I will sing! (Azamra)" It goes on to explain that from all the good points that a man collects, a melody will be composed that will allow him to sing...
Even if one has fallen to the greatest depths, he should not abandon the idea of progress; one must not despair. Even if we are in some kind of...
We are really unique. It would be absurd to take pride in this, just as it would be incongruous, in the other extreme, to minimize our importance...
One should protect his mind from impure thoughts, for all actions derive from our thoughts. Just as transgressions are the result of evil thoughts...
Each of us, at our own level, dreams more or less of knowing the secrets of the world. But, simplicity of thought, simplicity of action...
An unlimited will for the absolute, for perfection, harmony and truth, inhabits our upper soul. It is literally Divine, even though mostly unknown...
How sad, how unnecessary! This is the absurd reasoning of “all or nothing” that uses the fantasy of the maximum as a trampoline and casts its victims...