Articles on "Breslev Chassidut"

Feige the Prophetess

Date of passing: 19-Adar. Rebbe Nachman honored the women of his family. Due to his mother's great spiritual merits, the Rebbe asked that we refer to him as “Nachman Ben Feige.”

I Can’t Be BRESLEV!

Breslev does NOT involve dancing on cars, nor changing any of your external dress or customs. The life changing advice is where it’s at, and the proof is in the pudding…

I’m Not a Breslever!

People like to tell themselves, “I’m not a Breslever, so all that stuff about talking to Hashem and having emuna really doesn’t apply to me...”

When Hollywood Met Uman

Hollywood director Paul Mazursky directed his final movie, Yippee, about the annual Breslever Rosh Hashanah gathering in Uman. Yippee was  one of the only films in Hollywood history that’s actually an act of teshuva (repentance).

BTs, Breslev, and Brainwash

You'd be hard-pressed to find a baal teshuva (newly observant Jew, or "BT") who hasn't been accused of being 'brainwashed' at some point in their life...

The Real Breslev Chassidut

You should know something about real Torah, and real Breslev chassidut, and that is that it only and always promotes peace, harmony, love and humility...

The Wicked Generation

This is a 'wicked' generation - it's a generation where people aren't going to play along just to make people happy, or from a false sense of obligation...

Getting Up Early

The Evil Inclination wants to kill us. So what do we do? We get up early and kill him before he has a chance to kill us; getting up early is the essence of Breslev...

The Hard Questions

She tried to find the ‘hole’ in the Breslev teachings and hashkafa; the situation where it just didn’t work; the argument that really didn’t stand up...