This file last updated: Wednesday, March 11, 1998
First of all, we are on the verge of updating our web site. All the information and services that are currently available will remain. In addition to the new look the site will have, we hope to add much more new content in a variety of areas. Stay tuned—I mean, wired! :-)
The second piece of good news is that our humble web site has been recognized as one of the top 500 sites on the Jewish web. We received this recognition in Mr. Irving Green's recent book “Judaism on the Web” published by MIS Press.
It is now possible to have a chat and/or "conference" (f2f) session with another Breslover. If you are familiar with how chat sessions work, contact me at the e-mail address below to make a date. If you don't have chat-ware, keep it that way. You'll be better off.
It is a time-honored Chassidic tradtion to give a kvittel to a tzaddik (righteous person). A kvittel is a piece of paper containing one's name and what one wishes to have prayed on his behalf. (See below for further guidelines.) I make no claims or pretenses to be a tzaddik but I will accept an e-kvittel for anybody who cares to send one and pray for them at the Western Wall. Click here to get your e-kvittel to me.
The classic form for a kvittel is to write your full Hebrew name and that of your MOTHER (not father). E.g., Moshe Dovid ben Leah Bracha; Tova Devora bat Rivka Rachel. If you don't know your Hebrew, or that of your mother, write your/her English name.
After that, list what you would like prayed for: health, an improved domestic situation, more faith in God and His Torah, etc. You may include others in your kvittel. To assist the kvittel one should give charity to a worthwhile Jewish cause (a poor family, a Torah institution and the like). See the end of the dvar Torah on parshat Ki Tavo 5756 for more about this. Hoping to hear from you!
A new catalog of works published by the Breslov Research Institute is now available. To order yours:
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Likutey Moharan, volume 5 (Lessons 33-49) is now available. The long-awaited Anatomy of the Soul is coming closer and closer to fruition. With Hashem's help we hope to see it before Chanukkah.
A new anthology and translation of Reb Noson's tefilot has been begun. It will contain a selection of Reb Noson's tefilot and will be arranged by subject.
Yehoshua Starret's new book about the Beit HaMikdash, (the Temple in Jerusalem, may it be rebuilt speedily, in our days, Amen) has undergone an initial editing. If you want to read some of it now click here. I have begun to work on its companion volume. If we get an enourmous amount of siyata dishmaya (Divine assistance) we'll see it Chanukah time. If not, we'll see it later.
THEY'RE HERE! The books that re-tell Rabbi Nachman's stories and parables for children. Available in English and Hebrew. (Hey! All of us beginners can practice our Hebrew when no one is looking!) Head for your local Jewish bookstore and order yours today! Or order it via this homepage. There are now SIX titles in the series and more are being planned. Be the first on your block to own the whole series!
For those of you who have enjoyed The Empty Chair in English (compiled by Moshe Mykoff and published by our friends at Jewish Lights), it is also available in Hebrew, French, Polish, Portugese, South Korean and Spanish. It's small size and brevity make it an easy-to-give gift. Not to mention thought-provoking!
If you have any questions about Breslov, or Judaism in general, that aren't addressed here please contact us. As they say in Yiddish, "Foon a kasha shtarbt min nisht" - From a question you don't die.
If you would like to be put on our list server for a dvar Torah on the portion of the week you have to let us know! Our minyan is getting bigger all the time. Join us. If God smiles on us, we'll soon have a daily minyan. :-)
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