How do you know when you’ve really learned something, not just superficially, but deeply? When your face changes from it.

The Torah is not the point, in Rebbe Nachman’s thought, it seems.  The point is the encounter we have – with each other, with the world.  The Torah helps in an essential way in making that encounter happen. We also explore this “intelligence” which occurs in nodes in our world – what is it?

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 [...]

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.

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 [...]

Amazingly, the musician is the one who brings about the shift.  Rebbe Nachman places the musician as the central point in bringing prophecy and all its tributaries.  This is amazing stuff.

The musician can deliver us from the hands of illusion into the realm of prophecy.  S/he sorts the different spirits and chooses the ones that will lift us up. 

Death is the bad eye.  It takes us out of the flow of life and encapsulates us in a sealed world where we are, in fact, in charge.  But of what? The opposite is ‘life’ – epitomized by King David.  King David lives!  How?  He had a good eye.  And he left us his legacy [...]

There are only two ways to look at our world – as a constant flow of communication from G-d or as an opportunity to selfishly grab all we can.  They are mutually exclusive.