April 5, 2012
Blog ArchivesFeel Joy
BRI’s NarrowBridge.Org sends out twice weekly inspiration providing a regular dose of hope, meaning and courage. These emails include small doses of Rebbe Nachman’s wisdom, enabling us to get through the week in a more spiritual way. If you would like to receive these emails click here. Rebbe Nachman of Breslov taught… When a person’s voice … Continue Reading
Pesach Stories
The Stories Of Our Lives Man is incapable of a sudden confrontation with his Creator. The overwhelming experience of such awareness is just too awesome. Truth, the stark Truth, must be camouflaged. Only then can the soul gradually absorb it. God, so to speak, camouflaged Himself in stories. These are the stories of the Creation … Continue Reading
Make It Real
Now, I don’t know how it is at your Seder. Maybe the highlight is eating the matzah or the meal; maybe it’s negotiating the return of the afikoman or singing all those fun songs at the end of the Haggadah. I do know that for many of us, it’s the actual telling of the story. … Continue Reading
Use Your Freedom Of Speech
BRI’s NarrowBridge.Org sends out twice weekly inspiration providing a regular dose of hope, meaning and courage. These emails include small doses of Rebbe Nachman’s wisdom, enabling us to get through the week in a more spiritual way. If you would like to receive these emails click here. Rebbe Nachman of Breslov taught… Speech remains in exile until … Continue Reading
Be Happy!
BRI’s NarrowBridge.Org sends out twice weekly inspiration providing a regular dose of hope, meaning and courage. These emails include small doses of Rebbe Nachman’s wisdom, enabling us to get through the week in a more spiritual way. If you would like to receive these emails click here. Rebbe Nachman of Breslov taught… “Always remember: Joy is not … Continue Reading
Dvar Torah for Pesach
What to do when irresistible question meets immovable intellect? Based on Likutey Halakhot, Pesach #9 Let’s see. For all of Pesach we may not eat bread, cake and cookies and other leavened foods (and beverages, like beer). Everything has to be “kosher for Passover.” Not even an itsy-bitsy speck of leaven! Not so easy to … Continue Reading
Questions—and Answers
Part of the freedom process that culminates in the existence and celebration of Pesach is asking questions. You’ve got to ask! The son “who doesn’t know how to ask” is not, according to the Maharal of Prague, someone who is unwise. He is someone who is indifferent, someone who is criminally negligent. Rebbe Nachman teaches … Continue Reading
The Joy of Matzah
Dvar Torah for Pesach Based on Likutey Halakhot, Pesach 2 What is matzah? It’s a simple type of bread made from flour and water and nothing else. It’s so simple that it does even rise, meaning, it doesn’t become leavened. It’s a bread that we Jews are commanded to eat at the Seder. As with … Continue Reading





















