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148 West » Torah 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 Tell the Truth! http://148west.com/practice/tell-truth/ http://148west.com/practice/tell-truth/#comments Wed, 03 Sep 2014 14:48:35 +0000 http://148west.com/?p=487 (In memory of Chaim Barukh Yehudah ben Dovid Tzvi zl)   The fourth of the Ten Commandments is, “Remember the Shabbat day” (Exodus 20:8). Its parallel is the ninth commandment, “Do not give false witness against your countryman” (v. 13). [One sense of “parallel” is that when the Ten Commandments are written in two columns of […]

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]]> http://148west.com/practice/tell-truth/feed/ 0 Be Delighted. Keep Shabbos. http://148west.com/practice/delighted-keep-shabbos/ http://148west.com/practice/delighted-keep-shabbos/#comments Fri, 20 Jun 2014 10:39:24 +0000 http://148west.com/?p=389 On Shabbat the tzaddik delivers lechem mishneh. (The term lechem mishneh refers to the “double bread,” the two loaves of challah on which the homotzi blessing is recited at each of the three Shabbat meals.) This lechem mishneh is Mishnah Torah which gives you the privilege of generating new Torah insights that are “two for […]

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]]> http://148west.com/practice/delighted-keep-shabbos/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 One-Eyed Jacks are Wild http://148west.com/rabbeinu/one-eyed-jacks-are-wild/ http://148west.com/rabbeinu/one-eyed-jacks-are-wild/#comments Tue, 25 Jun 2013 19:56:02 +0000 http://148west.com/?p=323 Today (Tuesday, June 25, 2013) was the fast day of the 17th of Tammuz marking (among other things) the 3000th–something anniversary of the breaking of the Luchot, the tablets which had the Ten Commandments engraved into them. None other than Moshe Rabbeinu, aka Moses the Lawgiver, broke them. Why did he do that? Because when […]

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]]> http://148west.com/personal/what-is-teshuvah/feed/ 0 Got Torah? http://148west.com/practice/got-torah/ http://148west.com/practice/got-torah/#comments Tue, 14 May 2013 11:31:44 +0000 http://148west.com/?p=308 Although we’ve been given the Torah, even now God still has it. He’s the only one who knows the Torah’s core depth, its roads to be walked and how to instill Torah-living into humankind. How much of the Torah any of us receives is directly related to how much he is willing to sacrifice for […]

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]]> http://148west.com/practice/got-torah/feed/ 0 Chosen Person http://148west.com/weekly/chosen-person/ http://148west.com/weekly/chosen-person/#comments Mon, 13 May 2013 11:10:34 +0000 http://148west.com/?p=303 We’re on the threshold of receiving the Torah, again. As we wrote earlier, one of the reasons we stay awake all Shavuot night to learn Torah, is to awaken our desire for living Torah, despite any obstacles we may face in life. And face obstacles we will. Rebbe Nachman talks often of the desire to […]

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]]> http://148west.com/weekly/chosen-person/feed/ 0 Behar-Bechukotai http://148west.com/weekly/behar-bechukotai/ http://148west.com/weekly/behar-bechukotai/#comments Thu, 02 May 2013 21:58:52 +0000 http://148west.com/?p=223 Dvar Torah for Parshat Behar-Bechukotai 5773 All Beginnings Are Difficult   Well now. 148West’s maiden dvar Torah. Very exciting, for me at least. After writing “a weekly column” for someone else, I’m doing it for someone else—me. The exciting part is, that no longer working as “an official spokesman” for Breslov Research Institute (blessed be […]

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]]> http://148west.com/weekly/behar-bechukotai/feed/ 0 Saving Money http://148west.com/practice/saving-money-2/ http://148west.com/practice/saving-money-2/#comments Mon, 15 Apr 2013 16:46:47 +0000 http://148west.com/?p=109 Q. I wanted to know what the frum [i.e., ultra-Orthodox] world and the Breslov world thinks about putting away money in savings/401K plans. I remember reading in Rabbi Nachman’s Wisdom (aka Sichot HaRan) #247, that the more money one has, the further his wealth is from him, with money in the bank being among the furthest away.  I thought, money […]

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