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The late eighteenth-century Hasidic master Rebbe Nachman of Breslov teaches us, “If you want to return to God you must make yourself into a new creation. You can do this with a sigh.”9
Adina Allen • The Place of All Possibility: Cultivating Creativity Through Ancient Jewish Wisdom
Rabbi Shlomo Wolbe (d. 2005)
David Jaffe • Changing the World from the Inside Out: A Jewish Approach to Personal and Social Change
Imitatio Dei: The rabbi of Sasov once gave the last money he had in his pocket to a man of ill repute. His disciples threw it up to him. He answered them: “Shall I be more finicky than God, who gave it to me?”
Martin Buber Tales of the Hasidim
The days of the month of Nissan are days of repentance like those of Tishrei
Rabbi Nathan of Breslov • Advice - Likutey Etzot
The sixth Rebbe deduced from this principle that Israel ben Eliezer (1698–1760), the Ba‘al Shem Ṭov, “master of a good name,” generally abbreviated as the Beshṭ, should be considered the “Moses of Ḥasidism” and Shneur Zalman of Liadi, the “Moses of Ḥabad.”
Elliot R. Wolfson • Open Secret: Postmessianic Messianism and the Mystical Revision of Menaḥem Mendel Schneerson
“The humility of Rabbi Zechariah ben Avkulas caused the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem.”
Alan Morinis • Everyday Holiness: The Jewish Spiritual Path of Mussar
When you judge someone favorably, the Hasidic master Rebbe Nahman of Bratzlav (1772–1810) teaches, you elevate them and bring out the best that they are capable of being.
Shai Held • Judaism Is About Love: Recovering the Heart of Jewish Life
When the founder of Hasidic Judaism, the great Rabbi Israel Shem Tov, saw misfortune threatening the Jews, it was his custom to go into a certain part of the forest to meditate. There he would light a fire, say a special prayer, and the miracle would be accomplished and the misfortune averted.
Later, when his disciple, the celebrated Maggid of Mezri