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148 West » davening http://148west.com NEVER EVER DESPAIR! Tue, 28 Jul 2015 15:16:59 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.37 Why I Go to Uman for Rosh HaShanah http://148west.com/rabbeinu/why-i-go-to-uman-for-rosh-hashanah/ http://148west.com/rabbeinu/why-i-go-to-uman-for-rosh-hashanah/#comments Tue, 28 Jul 2015 15:16:59 +0000 http://148west.com/?p=530 Why do I go to Uman for Rosh HaShanah? Let me count the whys. First of all, I go because the Rebbe said to come to him for Rosh HaShanah. This alone is sufficient reason to go. I need no other. If you have any inkling of the chassidic mind, you understand that if “the […]

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]]> http://148west.com/practice/anchors-aweigh-away-way/feed/ 1 Shabbos Night (2 of 10) http://148west.com/practice/segue-maariv/ http://148west.com/practice/segue-maariv/#comments Thu, 24 Jul 2014 12:10:17 +0000 http://148west.com/?p=432  (In memory of Chaim Barukh Yehudah ben Dovid Tzvi zl) K’gavna  (In chassidic shuls, this piece of Zohar is said right before the start of Maariv, the nighttime prayer.) Just as the six points of the sefirot unite Above to become one, the Shekhinah, too, unites her six points, Below. The two are aligned perfectly, in harmony, face […]

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]]> http://148west.com/practice/segue-maariv/feed/ 0 Don’t Be Inferior http://148west.com/weekly/inferior-dont/ http://148west.com/weekly/inferior-dont/#comments Thu, 05 Jun 2014 18:47:26 +0000 http://148west.com/?p=376 One of the biggest challenges we face in our quest to live Jewishly, is the feeling that we can’t measure up, that certain “levels” or accomplishments are just beyond us. This is not a feeling that only a baal teshuvah might have. Many who are born and educated in even the most “religious” and/or spiritually […]

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]]> http://148west.com/weekly/inferior-dont/feed/ 0 for Rosh Hashanah 5774 http://148west.com/weekly/rosh-hashanah-5774/ http://148west.com/weekly/rosh-hashanah-5774/#comments Tue, 27 Aug 2013 13:49:04 +0000 http://148west.com/?p=354 Some words as we get closer to the sunset of 5773, and the opening of 5774. Once, at the beginning of the year, Rebbe Yochanan ben Zakkai (a Mishnaic sage who was a teacher of one of Rebbe Akiva’s teachers) had a dream. He saw that that year, his nephews were to lose 700 dinarim. […]

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]]> http://148west.com/weekly/rosh-hashanah-5774/feed/ 0 Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door http://148west.com/topical/knockin-on-heavens-door/ http://148west.com/topical/knockin-on-heavens-door/#comments Mon, 08 Jul 2013 19:56:07 +0000 http://148west.com/?p=329 In honor of The Nine Days, the first nine days of the month of Av, which culminate with Tisha b’Av (9th of Av), the anniversary of the destruction of the holy Temple in Jerusalem, let’s talk peace. Rebbe Nachman says in Likutey Moharan II, Lesson #96: It is possible to whisper that a gun should […]

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