In Forest Fields
Breslev Israel is delighted to introduce In Forest Fields, the English translation of B’Sde Yaar, Rabbi Arush’s amazing new book on hitbodedut – personal prayer.
In Forest Fields
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Breaking the Chains
Prayer is one’s personal redemption. One who masters the art of prayer – especially personal prayer – breaks the chains of exile and attains his individual redemption.
Beyond Logic
Talking to Hashem in your own words is a declaration of faith that surpasses all logic, proofs, and explanations. When you speak to Hashem, He is surely with you.
The Main Connection
The connection to Hashem by way of personal prayer becomes beautifully intimate in that each person can determine the time, place, language, dialect, and length of conversation...
Success for Everyone
Everyone can be successful in personal prayer. Even a person on a low spiritual level can speak to Hashem with sincerity and intent about whatever hurts him at the moment...
Silent Shouts
Since personal prayer should be intimate, we would no sooner expose our personal prayers than we would any other intimate act. Our conversations with Hashem are private...
With Prayer, With Hashem
When a person comes home without Hashem, he might need to come home with a policeman instead. Those who rely on their own abilities and aptitudes stand few chances of success...
Secret of the Good Life
Once we strive to serve Hashem as loyal servants, we see how easily our needs are fulfilled. Therefore, we should pray for everything, material or spiritual, big or small...
The Elixir of Life
Without Torah, a person remains an ignoramus; there is no way that he can properly observe Hashem’s commandments, for he doesn’t know what’s permissible and what’s forbidden...
Vessel of Divine Abundance
Prayer is the means whereby we bring Divine abundance from the upper spiritual worlds to our low material world. The words of prayer are vessels of abundance…
The Master of Prayer’s People
It’s not enough to open our mouths and pray. In effect, we have to pray for the privilege of prayer. There are so many internal and external hindrances to prayer…
The Warmup
Imagine how much we’d prepare ourselves before an important sports competition. We certainly wouldn’t come onto the playing field without adequately warming up first…
Don’t Be Smug
Hashem wants us to arouse ourselves and seek His help. In that respect, the evil inclination actually does us a favor in forcing us to seek Hashem…
Start Walking
Many of us want to change, yet we expect it to happen automatically, with no effort on our part. Life doesn't work that way. Every journey begins with a first step…
What Are You Afraid Of?
Fearing Hashem is like one-stop shopping: He who fears One, fears no one. If you fear Hashem, then the IRS, swine flu, Iran, or anything else won’t scare you in the least…
Respite from the Rat Race
A person with no purpose in life doesn’t particularly care where he is or where he’s going. But, once we have a goal in life…