The Tale of the Lost Princess
Rebbe Nachman's tale, "The Lost Princess" (Rabbi Arush's book "The Garden of Yearning") has the ability to arouse the heart to the soft voice of the soul that calls from our deepest inner depths.
The Lost Princess (Garden of Yearning)
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Thoughts of Repentance
Repentance is such a powerful gift - in just one moment, we can erase everything and start over, if we just know a simple pointer...
Spiritual Growth
The number seven is malchut, or in other words, the characteristic of emuna. Emuna perfects everything, for we learn...
The Precious Commodity
One who believes that "there is nothing other than Hashem" never blames himself or others for anything, since everything comes from Hashem...
Proper Personal Prayer
Even when we pray for spirituality, the "yes" and the "no" should be identical in our eyes. We shouldn't be disappointed when we don't get what...
Improper Personal Prayer
Translated by Rabbi Lazer Brody - Improper personal prayer means that a person isn't searching for Hashem's will in his or her hitbodedut, but praying for his or her own desires...
Believing in Ourselves
We have to believe in ourselves, namely, that our sincere personal prayer is leading us to truth, to the extent that no one...
Clarifying the Truth
With self-composure, we clarify truth: Such and such is the truth, and nothing in the world can make me deviate from it or give me the slightest..
Fighting for the Truth
Once Adam sinned, he caused a concealment of emuna; for that reason, every subsequent generation and every person must wage a big war to live...
The Ten Journeys of the Shechinah
The ramification of the Shechinah's disappearance is the loss of emuna, as we see in the Arizal's explanation of the Holy Temple's...
Remembering the Fish and the Watermelon
There is no reality of "bad"; one's outlook on a scale from good to bad depends on the level of one's emuna. The more the emuna, the happier...
No Reason for Despair
The search for emuna arouses unlimited Divine mercy, mitigating all severe judgments and turning them into mercy. Mercy is a Divine...
The Most Beautiful Revelation
We wouldn't want to pour a thirty year-old Chateau de Rothschild Cabernet wine in a broken or dirty glass, for the wine would either spill...
The Right Motive
When asking for emuna, one needs a pure motive and not personal interest or gain. As we see in our tale at hand, the king's distress motivated...
A Path to the Side
Our path in life is as unique as our fingerprint, in accordance with our mission in life, former reincarnations, and our individual tikkun (spiritual rectification) ...
The Point of Truth within the Truth
Hashem sends a myriad of messages to us every day. Some are designed to stimulate teshuva for a particular misdeed. Others are aimed at...