#breslov

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"The Exodus from Egypt occurs in every human being, in every era, in every year, and in every day." - Rabbi Nachman of Breslov Every single moment is a chance to leave our own personal "Egypt" – those things that hold us back from being our best selves.

[adhdnojutsu]

A day in the life of Itachi Uchiha.

Wake up at 5.

Have breakfast. Slowly. You're stalling.

Check assignments.

Get dressed. Slowly. Remember you're stalling. Wonder if the print on your t-shirt is a dark joke about how things ended with Shisui ("Just to see you, one eye").

Walk dog.

Kill people & have a breakdown about it.

Schedule emergency spiritual guidance with Rabbi Nachman, NACHMAN ME'UMAN, NACHMAN ME'UMAN, RABBI NACHMAN ME'UMAN! NA-NACH-NACHMA-NACHMAN ME'UMAN, NACHMAN ME'UMAN, RABBI NACHMAN ME'UMAN!! (sorry this is involuntary)

Cry to your baby brother because he's too young to judge you.

Contemplate quitting the next morning.

Remember the weight of the world rests on your shoulders specifically.

Btw I have no idea what head sculpt that is lol

[2spoonsofsugar]

נ נח נחמ נחמן מאומן!!!!

[judaic-myth-n-mysticism]

An amulet of herbal mixtures + a simple written segulah against the Quilpoth from the Sefer HaMidot I assembled for my brother.

[divinum-pacis]

Why Do Some Jews Visit Uman for Rosh Hashanah? | My Jewish Learning

On Rosh Hashanah, tens of thousands of Jews from Israel and elsewhere descend on the small Ukrainian city of Uman ...

[hiddurmitzvah]

I like soccer very very much and I like judaism and jewish philosophy as much as well, so I thought it would be a great idea to mix the two together. Above you can see the result, which is basically  an “all time national team” of jewish philosophers according to my preferences. Learning the lessons of jewish history, I choosed a clearly defensive team’s formation (3-5-2), but on the contrary with the 5 midfielders we got a flexible squad that can adjust to certain situations in a game.

goalkeeper: Nachman of Breslov

We need someone in the back who could stay calm all time and have the ingredient respect which is needed for this position, and nobody have these two attributes as much as Reb Nachman of Breslov.

centre-back: Nachmanides (Ramban)

Against muslim or christian theologians, Ramban always knew how to defence the truth of the Torah, and with that he earned this key position in the middle of the defense.

right back-left back: Philo and Joseph Caro

There is no place for tender feelings or poetry for side-backs, this positions require toughness and realism, which is exactly what we can expect from the great interpreter of greek philosopy and the author of Sulchan Aruch.

defending midfielders: Martin Buber and Franz Rosenzweig

Worked on the revolutionary german translation of the Tanach together, Buber and Rosenzweig could form an excellent couple, but probably would be the grey characters of the team, and also the hardest-workers.

wide midfielders: Simeon bar Yochai and Baruch Spinoza

Different characters, but both the creative bar Yochai with his mystical dribbles and Spinoza with his exact, rationalist passes and volleys could drive the opponents crazy.

attacking midfielder: Maimonides (Rambam)

No question, Rambam can understand and control the game like nobody else, and he also deserved the role of the skipper.

Strikers: Judah Halevi and Rasi

The pair of the clean mind and the creative freedom would compliment each other perfectly at the front of the goal. Though Halevi could make endless dribbles sometimes or forget about offside, if he got the right mood, he’s unstoppable.

substitutes: Baal Shem Tov, Rabbi Akiva, Sa’adya Gaon, Abraham ibn Ezra and Emmanuel Levinas.

[hyperpotamianarch]

Top 5 niggunim of all time?

That is a very good question! Unfortunately, I have to say that I'm not really a Niggumim expert. I'm not really a very musical person. So I'm going to, instead of ranking Niggumim by quality, list here my favourite 5 Niggunim. Hope you don't mind. I'm not claiming they're the best Niggunim ever - especially since I don't know every Niggun that ever existed - but those will be the ones I like.

Secondly, I have to wonder: what amounts to a Niggun? The literal meaning of the word is "a tune" or "a melody". However, does that include tunes and melodies composed for specific words? Or just the wordless Hasidic Niggunim of the last two centuries? If we go with the latter - which would exclude most melodies of Piyutim - we will find ourselves excluding Hassidic tunes composed to music, such as "Kol Dodi" and "E-li Atah V(e)’Odeka", some of the Alter Rebbe's famous Niggunim. An alternative would be to limit us to Hasidic melodies only, but considering how heavy with Chabad my background is we'll end up with too much of their stuff. So I reserve the right to enter some non-Hassidic melodies as well, for balance.

My number one is actually a Breslov Niggun: Niggun Sipurei Ma‘asiot. I was only once or twice in a Breslov synagogue where it was sung in the context that gave it its name, but I've heard it often enough in other contexts. The context that gave it its name would be before telling one of Rabbi Nachman's stories. I feel that this Niggun is very appropriate for that, and it gives me the feeling of fantasy, where everything is possible. Link to Spotify:

Second would be Shamil. It might be nostalgia talking, as I remember it positively from my time in my highschool-Yeshivah, but it's also a Niggun all about longing, which is clearly felt in it. The Niggun was added to the Chabad repertoire by the last Rebbe during Simchat Torah 5719. According to the Rebbe, this Niggun was actually composed by the Imam Shamil, a leader of an uprising against the Russian Empire in the North Caucasus. The story goes that the Russian misled him into accepting a deal and then imprisoned him far from his home in the mountains. And during his imprisonment, he looked through the windows at the skies and longed and hoped to go back to the open, and this Niggun was his way of expressing that. Whether or not the Niggun really comes from him, that's still a powerful story to remember while singing it - and channeling this longing in other directions, the longing of the soul back to G-d (because it's still Chabad). Spotify link:

At this point I admit I have a problem, because I do know that most Niggunim I can remember are more Chabad stuff, or might keep representing the longing angle, which really is strong. Bur I can't just stop here for no reason. I only gave two Niggunim. Well, let's see what more I can bring.

Putting Niggun HaHistalkut here, because I think it's touching. I thought I remembered the story attached but now I'm not so certain, and don't really have the time to verify it against my more Niggun-expert friends. Anyway, presented here:

Here I start cheating and using melodies with words. This is one tune that I rather like of Mizmor Shir L(e)Yom HaShabbat. Admittedly, a large part of why I like it is just because it continues beyond where most Niggunim stop. Attached here will be what I think might be the original performance of this tune, because I don't really know if it has a name of ita own and that's how I managed finding the right one:

Look. I realize at this point saying I'm cheating again can feel like I'm cheating a bit too much. But I feel like I can't make such a list without including anything from Modzhitz, only I barely know anything of theirs... That is, outside of their Shoshanat Ya‘akov, which is admittedly nice but I don't want it here - and the one Niggun of theirs everyone knows, whether or not they know that they know it: the Modzhitz Ani Ma’amin. The story is famous, really: a Jewish Hassidic composer, rabbi ‘Azriel David Pastag, started singing it on the train to Treblinka, with everyone on the train joining him. After he finished singing, he said thar he promises half his part in the world to come to anyone who would manage to get this melody to his Rebbe, the Rabbi of Modzhitz. Two Jews jumped off the train, but only one of them survived and managed to send the tune to the Rebbe. You know this tune and its story, even if you didn't know it was specifically connected to.the Modzhitz Hassidut. This song was sung on the way to the extermination camps, and it's said that with this melody we shall accept the Mashiach. Link to the Modzhitz performance of it:

An honourable mention goes to one of my favourite songs, Ahallelah E-lohai. Can't say there's a particular story here, I just like this song. Here it is:

[bobemajses]

"An event that is widely known to everyone in Ukraine is the arrival of Breslov (Bratslav) Hasidim in Uman to visit the grave of Tsadik Nachman, which our media and society perceive as the influx of an absolutely foreign culture to the Ukrainian lands, but this is quite a mistaken belief. This tradition belongs to our territories, our history, just like Christian pilgrimages to monasteries."

- Marharyta Yehorchenko