The BRI Uman Kollel 5786

Click here to sponsor a shiur or kiddush at the BRI Kollel for Uman Rosh HaShanah 2025.

Rebbe Nachman taught that no matter what—whether you eat or don’t eat, sleep or don’t sleep, pray with focus or struggle with distraction—the most important thing is simply: “Be with me for Rosh HaShanah.”

Over ten years ago, BRI created the Uman Kollel to help people not only come, but also truly connect with why they are there. Through a series of powerful shiurim delivered before and during Rosh HaShanah by leading teachers, participants gain clarity and inspiration to understand the incredible significance of traveling to Uman, even when it means overcoming great challenges—especially in recent years.

We invite you to join us and enrich your preparation for the Yom HaDin, the Day of Judgment, when the destiny of the world is decided. The Kollel is a chance to strengthen yourself with lessons and insights you can carry home to guide your avodat Hashem all year long. Throughout the program, light refreshments and hot and cold drinks will be available.

The classes this year will be as follows:

Shabbos, Elul 28th (at Heichal Hatorah – 19th Pushkina Street):

• 1:00 PM – Reb Nachman Fried – “Chadi (Rejoiced) Rebbe Shimon”: Getting the joy by the Tzaddik (Lesson 61)
• 2:00 PM – Reb Raphael Kramer – Rosh Hashanah Genesis of the creation
• 3:00 PM – Rabbi Nasan Maimon – Breslov Insights on Parshat Nitzavim & Closing the Year Happily
• 3:00 PM – Reb Gil Bashe – A guided tour around within the Uman Starting from the BRI Complex
• 4:00 PM – Reb Mordechai Gottleib – L’etayel BeToraso (Likutey Moharan Lesson 61)
• 5:00 PM – Mr. Gedaliah Fenster – Rebbe Nachman and the Journey to Self-Awareness
• Seudah Shelishis – Third Meal with Reb Elchonon Tauber at the BRI Complex, Perovska Street 7B

Sunday, 29th of Elul (at Heichal Hatorah – 19th Pushkina Street):

• 11:00 AM – Reb Meir Elkabas – Rosh Hashanah: Outsmarting the Chambers of Exchanges
• 12:00 PM – Reb Mordechai Gottleib – L’etayel BeToraso (Likutey Moharan Lesson 61)
• 1:00 PM – Rabbi Nasan Maimon – The Keys to Teshuva & Forgiving Ourselves
• 2:00 PM – Reb Raphael Kramer – “Just come to me” (for Rosh Hashanah)
• 3:00 PM – Reb Baruch Gartner – I Live to Give: Transformative Charity
• 3:00 PM – Reb Gil Bashe – A guided tour around Uman Starting from the BRI Complex
• 4:00 PM – Reb Nachman Fried – The Purpose of Traveling to the Tzaddik
• 5:00 PM – Reb Yonatan Rietti – Waste Not Fresh Tears on Yesterday’s Mistakes Rebbe Nachman on Regret and Shame
• 6:00 PM – Reb Chaim Kramer – Faith in the Sages (Emunat Chakhamim), Likutey Moharan (Lesson 61)
• 7:45 PM – Reb David Yisrael Kalmus – “Reimagine Your Life”

Monday, Erev Rosh Hashanah (BRI Complex – 7B Perovska Street):

• 1:00 PM – Reb Yonatan Rietti – How Yiush (Despair) is an Innocent Misunderstanding of Reality
• 2:00 PM – Mr. Gedaliah Fenster – The Source of Conscious Living and Spiritual Clarity
• 3:00 PM – Reb Chaim Kramer – This Year’s Cursing I’ll End, The New Year’s Blessings Are Coming

Tuesday, the 1st day of Rosh Hashanah:

• Reb Chaim Kramer – Post-Tashlich shiur at the Kloiyz

Wednesday, the 2nd day of Rosh Hashanah (BRI Complex – 7B Perovska Street):

• 5:00 PM – Mr. Gedaliah Fenster – New Year, New You
• Between Mincha and Maariv – Reb Chaim Kramer – “Going Home with Something in Hand”

At the same time, we turn to you, our friends and supporters, to help sustain this special initiative. Sponsoring a shiur or a Kiddush costs only $360, and gives you a share in this meaningful project.

Even if you can’t be in Uman yourself, this is your opportunity to still be part of it.

Click here to sponsor a shiur or kiddush at the BRI Kollel for Uman Rosh HaShanah 2025.

We would be grateful if you could pass along this opportunity to others who may want to take part.