Happy Birthday, Rebbe!

Happy Birthday, Rebbe!

Shalom!

Teachings of MOSHE CHAIM EFRAIM OF SUDILKOV

4. Teachings of MOSHE CHAIM EFRAIM OF SUDILKOV

[A grandson of the Ba’al Shem Tov and the author of Degel Machaneh Efraim]

TESHUVAH DEPENDS ON THE GEDOLIM

I received a tradition from the disciples of my holy grandfather the Ba’al Shem Tov that the gedolim of the generation have the ability to purify the souls of Bnei Yisrael that have become sullied.

These souls have become filthy with the vile impurity of their sins, and so all the primary ways of teshuvah (whether confession, fasting, or crying) require the guidance of the leaders of the generation (who serve as a bridge to the upper worlds). DEGEL MACHANEH EFRAIM, TAZRIA

THE LIGHT OF TORAH SHINES THROUGH TESHUVAH

Each and every Jew has his roots in the Torah ­­­– his own letter (that is, there are six hundred thousand archetypal souls, which correspond to the six hundred thousand letters of the Torah). When a person sins, Heaven forbid, he blemishes his corresponding letter in the Torah and dims its light. And when he returns to the proper path he had previously traveled and repents, he shines the light of the Torah anew. DEGEL MACHANEH EFRAIM, KI SISSA

SOWING SEEDS OF TESHUVAH

Our Sages taught that when someone repents out of love, his intentional sins are transformed into merits (Yoma 86b) This can be compared to seeds planted in the ground. When a seed is sown, it must first break down and decompose before a plant can grow from it. The same is true for one who repents out of love. DEGEL MACHANEH EFRAIM, LIKUTIM

BANISHING THE DARKNESS

When a person sins, he blemishes the spiritual light of his soul, which is drawn from the holy supernal light of the Torah, and his light is transformed into darkness, Heaven save us! When he truly repents, the light shines on him once more. As I heard from my holy grandfather the Ba’al Shem Tov, just as the darkness vanishes and is no longer discernible when a person brings a candle into a dark room, the same is true of a person who does teshuvah: although he was plunged into darkness by his sins, when he shines the light of the Torah on himself, the darkness vanishes completely without a trace. DEGEL MACHANEH EFRAIM, LIKUTIM.

PRAYING FOR SINNERS

I heard from my grandfather the holy Ba’al Shem Tov that when a person has sins that are left over from his previous lives (known as gilgulim, or incarnations), when he prays for the welfare of other sinners he rectifies those misdeeds. DEGEL MACHANEH EFRAIM, LIKUTIM.

Returnity – The Way Back To Eternity [Selected Teachings From The Chassidic Masters On Teshuvah] by Rabbi Tal Moshe Zwecker.

Rabbi Tal Moshe Zwecker is a Chassid and teacher in Ramat Beit Shemesh. Translator of Noam Elimelech and other classics of Chassidus in English.

R’ Tal Moshe Zwecker

Director Machon Be’er Mayim Chaim Publishing

Chassidic Classics in the English Language

Website: www.chassidusonline.com

Email: chassidusonline@gmail.com

No LOVE for Evil doers

No LOVE for Evil doers

A lack of love, a lack of love is missing in this world.

A stream of love is a natural source of healing, a stream of love is a natural source of healing.

You could have more hate of Nazi Adolf Hitler if he "was" Christian, or Catholic or Buddhist, or any religion? No, he was an Evil doer, an individual pays for his crimes for what he did, no matter what their preferences and religion, in court the years of the sentence will not be higher than such a person if he or she is an exact religion, judge would say, what is your religion, and after the response, the judge can give a greater or lesser penalty, thought about it?

We live in a world of cultural differences, social classes and various religions, etc.

Let's be honest, there are people who hate each other and are divided on the 'same religion,' God approves it?

Let's be honest, you know people of other religions who do not like your religion, but you know people of other religions who are not against your religion, even without business partnership and/or material gain.

God heals everyone and everything, and all technology, medicine, and what scientists found the cure of some diseases, such Wisdom came from God for them, but these people are part of our religion? We should hate them because they are not of our religion?

Can we hate those who are doing good? The way how the Upper Hand works in this world, with each person, every nation, how can we understand and behave: with judgments or love (in a way similar as brotherly love, motherly)?

World peace is possible, it is the Divine Will, or you will ask, what is religion?

Shalom! Shalom! Shalom!

Gilson Sasson.

God

There's only one way to change ourselves and everything in this world to BEST. It is to do the Will of HASHEM. No less, but completely by His Holy Torah.

Gilson SASSON.

Jornal Mitsvá.

Avraham Was One

Hashmatah: Likutey Moharan Tinyana

The following teaching is not numbered, but was included by Reb Noson at the beginning of Likutey Moharan Part II (“Tinyana”), which he first published in 1811, the year after our teacher Rebbe Nachman of Breslov’s passing. Thereafter, the two parts were published together. We do not know why Reb Noson decided not to include this teaching in the sequence of the lessons, but we may speculate that by placing it at the beginning of Part II, he saw it as a general directive to all who would embark upon the path of Divine service.

“Avraham Was One”

“ Echad hayah Avraham (Avraham was one)” (Ezekiel 33:24).

Avraham worshipped God only because he was “one”—because he considered himself alone in the world. He paid no attention whatsoever to people who turned him away from God and hindered him, or his father or others who would interfere. Rather, it was as if he was the only one in the world. This is the meaning of “Avraham was one.”

And it is the same for anyone who wants to embark upon the service of God. The only way for him to get started is by thinking that other than himself, there is absolutely no one else in the world. He should pay no attention to anyone who would hinder him, such as his father and mother, or his father‑in‑law, and his wife and children, or the like; or to the obstacles that he has from other people who ridicule, instigate against or obstruct his service of God. He has to be unconcerned with them and pay them no mind. Rather, he should adopt an “Avraham was one” attitude—as if he is the only one in the world, as discussed above.

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3. Teachings of RAV PINCHAS OF KORITZ

[One of the primary disciples of the holy Ba’al Shem Tov and the author of Imrei Pinchas]

THE ONLY TRUE TESHUVAH IS THROUGH TORAH

Nowadays, there is no way to do complete teshuvah for our sins without Torah study. This is because some sins can be atoned only through korbanos, offerings. Teshuvah is not enough.

How do we teshuvah without korbanos today? Through Torah study. Our Sages taught, citing the verse “This is the Torah of the burnt offering, of the minchah offering, and the sin offering…” (Vayikra 7:37), that now, when we can no longer offer sacrifices, someone who is obligated to offer a sacrificial offering should study the passages of Torah that correspond to that sacrificial offering (Menachos 110a). When we study those parts of the Torah, it’s as if we brought those offerings. IMREI PINCHAS, ASERES YEMEI TESHUVAH

TESHUVAH CANNOT BEGIN WITHOUT TORAH

Rav Refael of Bershad, the disciple of Pinchas Koritzer, taught that the primary form of teshuvah is intense, increased Torah study. “Without this”, he explained, “teshuvah does not even begin!” IMREI PINCHAS, ASERES YEMEI TESHUVAH

TEMPORARY TESHUVAH: REUNITING THE PRINCE AND THE KING FOR AN HOUR

Once, after returning from a journey, Rav Pinchas Koritzer turned to his disciples and asked them, “What good is it to give mussar and help people do teshuvah if they end up returning to their former misdeeds and carry on sinning as they had before?

He answered his own rhetoric with a parable:

There was once a prince who was captured by the enemy. His father, the king, pined away, wishing only to see his son again. If it were possible to free the prince and deliver him from bondage, how wonderful that would be! However, even if that were impossible to accomplish, and they could only manage to arrange for the prince to visit his father even just for an hour, and then the prince would have to return to his prison, would the king not happily rejoice that he had even just one hour in his beloved son’s presence?

“Similary”, explained Rav Pinchas, “even if we cannot make these people repent fully and do complete teshuvah, if we can just give them a desire for repentance and feelings of regret for just one hour alone, that, too, is of great benefit.” IMREI PINCHAS, ASERES YEMEI TESHUVAH

Returnity – The Way Back To Eternity [Selected Teachings From The Chassidic Masters On Teshuvah] by Rabbi Tal Moshe Zwecker.

Rabbi Tal Moshe Zwecker is a Chassid and teacher in Ramat Beit Shemesh. Translator of Noam Elimelech and other classics of Chassidus in English.

R’ Tal Moshe Zwecker

Director Machon Be’er Mayim Chaim Publishing

Chassidic Classics in the English Language

Website: www.chassidusonline.com

Email: chassidusonline@gmail.com