Rebbe Nachman calls upon us to engage with the Mind, the purpose, the source of all things by raising us up to our own Source, our own reason.  When we do, the Mind that we find illuminates our journey through the world, well beyond that encounter. The mind is the life-force.  When the mind is [...]

Tosefot wonders about R’ Yehoshua b. Levi’s backing down from cursing his heretically annoying neighbor by accessing the moment (1/58,888 or 1/88,888 or 1/8888/hour) of G-d’s wrath.  Why not persist, wonders Tosefot?  There is, after all, precedent on gemarra AZ 26b for throwing heretics into pits and leaving them there… All this overlaps quite nicely [...]

Amazing that listening to music, when done right, can help us organize our orientation in the world, away from confusion/illusion and toward clarity/connection.  Here’s how it works.

G-d gets angry for 1/58,888 of an hour every day.  When, exactly is it?  How can we access it?  And what is really happening at that time?  Join us on a psychedelic journey.

In this last installment of Torah, we explore the tzaddik as the one who has refined his/her own ruchot to the point where s/he can bring it out in others; also, looking at hitbodedut as the practice of discerning between spirits by finding the good points, which are actually surfacings of a spirit that is [...]

Today we started a new lesson in Likutei Moharan – Lesson I in the first section.  We explore the concept of chen – what is it?  How do you get it?  And we enter into Rebbe Nachman’s suggestion that we engage the “intelligence” of each thing – what it means, what problems come up around [...]