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A ROSH HASHANAH OFFER!!!

(noon-time recitation of the Tikkun HaKlali in Uman on the Eve or Rosh HaShanah)

Rebbe Nachman made an oath that anyone who comes to his grave-site in Uman, the Ukraine, gives a coin to charity in the Rebbe's memory, recites the 10 Psalms known as the Tikkun HaKlali, and takes upon themselves to become a better person, the Rebbe will intercede on that person's behalf to pull them out of even the lowest depth of hell.

Rebbe Nachman also stressed the paramount importance of being by him for the Rosh HaShanah holiday. This practice continues even after Rebbe Nachman's passing, as thousands of people from all over the world flock to the city of Uman to be by the Rebbe for Rosh Hashanah.

It has become a common conduct among the followers of Rebbe Nachman to combine both directives by reciting together the Tikkun HaKlali at noon-time in Uman on the Eve of Rosh HaShanah.

If you would like to be a part of this collective recitation but cannot make it to Uman, we will be able to recite the Tikkun HaKlali for you there and then, and give out your charity beforehand.

To send your Tikkun HaKlali charity for this noon-time recitation on the Eve of Rosh HaShanah, please follow this paypal link: 

TIKKUN HAKLALI CHARITY IN MEMORY OF REBBE NACHMAN BEN FEIGA.

PLEASE ALSO MAKE SURE TO SUBMIT YOUR FULL HEBREW NAME AND MOTHER'S NAME (IF APPLICABLE).

With blessings for a good New Year sealed in the books of the True Tzaddikim for good life and peace

Sincerely

Meir Elkabas

@: breslovtherapy@gmail.com

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Humility is the Key to Receiving

COLLECTED WORDS OF ENCOURAGEMENT AND INSPIRATION: IYAR-TAMMUZ 2019

BH

 

The following are collected words of encouragement and inspiration based on the teachings of Rebbe Nachman sent to hundreds of people over the three months of Iyar to Tammuz. 

Please share:

1. The vessel needed to receive all blessings is made specifically when a person is truly positive about himself so much so that he sees himself as the means to reflect Hashem's essence. This requires that a person sees his prayers as a simple conduit to be used to praise Hashem. If a person is totally broken and lacks total self-confidence, he will find it very difficult to focusing on the words of the prayers (see Likutey Moharan lesson 73).
2. The key for making a vessel for prayers to be responsive is to firmly believe that you prayers do make a difference and matter very much to Hashem, no matter how low, far and blemished you may feel.
3. With Pesach - the mouth of prayer is opened (Peh Sach in Hebrew = a speaking mouth). And now in the month of May as the fields are filled with life and vegetation, it is good to go out to the fields and "talk" to Hashem.
4. When a person truly believes that Hashem loves Him and only wants to bestow benevolence upon him, there is no stopping the prayer that emanates from such a perspective.
5. This is the way of life, after every test, when we feel so frustrated and alone in dealing with difficult situations, if we do the right thing and sincerely turn to Hashem, He sends at least a minimum amount of relief. And anyways, looking back, a person gains so much from everything that he has gone through in life.
6. Being that the entire month of Iyar is within the Sefirah counting and is also a month of chessed, it is a special time for starting again in life, trying to do things on the right footage. Fortunate is the person who invests properly in the healing effects of this month properly (I'Y'A'R - Ani Hashem Rofekha = I am Hashem your Healer).
7. A person should not at all get distracted and thrown off course by setbacks in life. Just simply get back up and keep going. Show determination in following the advice and guidelines of the tzaddikim.
8. We have no idea what Hashem wants to make out of us. But one thing for sure is that we have to make sure that we are still "on board" when the ship set sails to bring us to our true potential and destiny according to His will.
9. If prayer and hitbodedut is itself difficult to do, then a person should daven for this itself - to be able to daven and express oneself clearly to Hashem. 
10. Pesach Sheni is like a "second chance" to taste of the Pesach=Nachman=148. To enable people who are so far and sullied to experience once again the light of the tzaddikim, and thus make a fresh start in coming back and closer to Hashem.
11. The main thing in life is to continuously call out to Hashem. Even if a person gets further and further away from Him, still He should call out to Him, since that alone is what will continuously remind him that Hashem is out there, and eventually this itself will bring him back.
12. The fact that a person has advanced so much in their Judaism is reflected in feeling much further from Hashem than before. Because the light of Torah shines onto a person the Infinite Light of Hashem, a person begins to see more sharply how really far he is from Hashem. This process continues, the closer you come, the farther you feel.
13. The light and energy that a person feels at the beginning of serving Hashem is a gift exposed to them above their true level. Reb Noson explains that this is sent to a person in order that they taste a little of what is actually out there, in order to give them the incentive to push and advance forward. When Heaven sees that the person is sincere and has started, they gradually take this light away so that a person can toil and earn the experience on their own.
14. The merit and prayers of the tzaddikim is meant to help give us a boost to connect to and reach higher levels of compassion and progress in coming closer to Eternal and True Goodness and Joy in life. They are our lifeline!!!
15. After doing something spectacular in life, such as travelling to a Tzaddik, one would expect positive changes. However in the main, things seem to go in the opposite direction, casting doubts if there was really any benefit in going to the Tzaddik. The real truth is that things have definitely changed for the better, and the initial difficulties and setbacks are just that - initial!! They prepare us for the new ascent and level attained in life.
16. We are now on the last stretch and week of the Omer counting before Chag Shavuot. May this week of Malkhut give us mastery, control and connection to the faculty of speech as it is expressed in prayer - and may we truly connect to the words of prayer, shining into them the 50th Level of Holiness that is revealed on Shavuot. May this in turn lead us to having a complete vessel created by our prayers as a means for receiving all blessings and abundance through it (see more of this in Likutey Moharan lesson 73).
17. The 50th day of Shavuot is meant to bring along with it extreme levels of loving-kindness, compassion, breakthroughs and newer and deeper revelations of Torah. Commensurate to the expression of yearning and desire that a person displays before this very special day, so too does he reap the profits.
18. Now that we are after Shavuot, it is a new beginning, to start anew with fresh energy and yearning to start again with prayer and Torah study, and their connection to each other. It is for this reason that King David - the master of Prayer/tehillim, passed away on Shavuot, to show the connection between true sincere prayer and receiving revelations of/from the Torah (see Likutey Moharan lesson 73).
19. After reaching the climax of Shavuot - the 50th day/gate on the maximum of levels. we now start from scratch, which means setbacks, disappointments, failures etc. However, since it is after tapping into this high level of holiness of Shavuot, we have what to fall back upon and simply start again every time with hope, power and joy. 
20. From now until the end of the book of Bamidbar - which will coincide with Tisha B'Av - the weekly Parshahs deal with constant strife and dis-accord between the Jewish nation and Moshe, with the Jews being punished for lacking faith in Moshe. This specifically all takes place after we re-received the Torah on Shavuot and tapped into the 50th Gate of Holiness. For the main test of a Jew to maintain Torah observance and holiness at the level of the 50th Level is specifically maintaining total and complete faith in the True Tzaddikim. For this reason we are going through the Parshahs dealing with this ordeal as a reminder to us as to what is the source of our difficulties in coming close to Hashem and maintaining true happiness in life - faith in the true tzaddikim.
21. While we go through all these Parashiyot dealing with the strife and conflict against Moshe Rabeinu, may we use this to remind us how much we need to have unswerving and solid faith and trust in all of the True Tzaddikim, and that this Faith and vessel to receiving all other blessings in life.
22. May we be extra strong in these upcoming weeks which deal with strife and conflict in almost every Parshah, to develop a true love and respect for the True Tzaddikim, and to take seriously all of their powerful advice, encouragement and inspirational teachings.
23. We need constant encouragement to hold on and keep on davening, since this is really the only thing you can really do in the meantime, until the crack in the dam slowly opens more and more and eventually the water of salvation starts gushing forth.
24. The summer heat is doing a good job in making us feel "out of it". However, with the light and emunah in the tzaddik, we have what to hold on to, the strengthen and encourage ourselves to go on despite all the difficulties we face in trying to serve Hashem with joy and complete emunah!!
25. Prayer is like the water dropping on the stone until it eventually makes a whole. This means that no prayer, no matter how dead and lacking enthusiasm, makes a difference in the end. It is just a matter of patience.
26. There are times that a person is going through so many setbacks and obstacles that he feels he can do absolutely nothing. However the submitted attitude generated is so amazing that it lets a person simply start again with freshness and real humility.
27. If we keep our eyes open we can see so many miracles in life literally every moment. But this eye "prescription" comes from the Holy Land, which means connecting as best as possible to the Holy Land.
28. Thank God for Rebbe Nachman and his teachings - the depth, clarity and guidance are so profound and powerful that they penetrate every area of life for Jew and gentile alike.
29. For the Jews to survive throughout all tests and tribulations unswerving faith in the tzaddikim (i.e. of the caliber like Moshe Rabeinu) is a necessity for survival and continuation.
30. When a person is feeling to overwhelmed and stressed coupled with the feeling that Hashem doesn't care about a person anymore (because if He really did He wouldn't just throw them away into such misery), it is all meant to squeeze enough a person so that the right tone and pressure in words and prayer come out.
31. When we feel so out of it - out of Emunah, out of Simcha and out of true Service of Hashem, it is simply a sign that the light of the Tzaddikim have been dimmed in our lives and that is the main area that we must work on. This is done by getting up at midnight to cry over the death/passing/concealment of the Tzaddikim and by going to daven by their holy grave-sites.
32. It is not by coincidence that the book of BaMidbar corresponds to these months of the early summer, when people begin to be and feel slackening in all areas (which is probably why this time is also known as "vacation time). The strife and conflict found in most of the book of BaMidbar show us the main cause and reason why we are still alone, like someone walking in a "desert". What is needed by us is our reaffirmation and commitment to following Moshe Rabeinu and all other subsequent Tzaddikim- true leaders of the Jewish nation.
33. Hashem doesn't look at the bad of a person like other people think He does. We may see ourselves as negative, but that doesn't mean that Hashem also looks at us in a negative manner. Hashem's way is always to look at the person's good!
34. Reb Noson writes that there are times that a person is so overwhelmed that he cannot even express what he is going through in speech before Hashem. What a person normally does then is lift up his hands towards Heaven as if to say "I cannot do or express myself any better than this". This, itself, is what then leads a person to activate the faculty of speech and then be able to properly express himself before God.
35. We are seemingly getting older and the challenges are much more serious and impacting in life. Things are no longer superficial as when we were teenagers. However the weapon through all this remains the same - prayer, prayer and more prayer. 
36. Rebbe Nachman teaches in several places that there are levels of holiness and purity that can only be attained through strife and conflict. He gives the analogy of a broken tree lying on the ground. If the tree becomes engulfed with water, the tree is elevated from the ground. So too, he says, strife in a sense is called "turbulent waters", and when a person (likened to a tree) is engulfed by this strife it elevates him and brings him closer (Rebbe Nachman used this to express why he himself remained silent and accepted the strife and conflict against him, as it was necessary to bring him to the higher levels that he then reached in life).
37. As the challenges of life get bigger and bigger, we realize more and more how we need much more Divine assistance and intervention in getting through matters. For this, Hashem has sent us Tzaddikim - more specifically the graves of Tzaddikim - to help us like a shepherd would help his flock.
38. No one can honestly say that they serve Hashem properly and are living their life the way it should be. So, then, what is left for us to do if perfection and doing things right seem beyond us due to the surmounting levels of obstacles? The main devotion and key to getting things done in life is by intense yearning and longing to do the Will of Hashem according to what He actually wants. This pang is what gets things forward in life.
39. During these 3 Weeks leading up to Tisha B'Av we are expected to go through relatively tighter and more constricted tests, which are meant to bring us closer in recognizing how much we need and rely on Hashem's kindness in life. The expressions and recitations of mourning are simply meant to bring out that yearning, built up from throughout the year and finally being able to come out verbally.  
40. The true tzaddikim - of the caliber of Moshe Rabeinu - know all the secret doors and strings attached to get a person around and bypass the attribute of strict judgement. This is the light and power of connecting to the 50th Gate of Holiness/Compassion/Understanding.
41. We have so many ups and downs in life and they are so imbalanced. We have such lofty highs but then we have major crashes. What is needed is to go through the process with a passive attitude since this is the way to come to Hashem, and not to be discouraged from the experience. 

A ROSH HASHANAH OFFER!!!

(noon-time recitation of the Tikkun HaKlali in Uman on the Eve or Rosh HaShanah)

Rebbe Nachman made an oath that anyone who comes to his grave-site in Uman, the Ukraine, gives a coin to charity in the Rebbe's memory, recites the 10 Psalms known as the Tikkun HaKlali, and takes upon themselves to become a better person, the Rebbe will intercede on that person's behalf to pull them out of even the lowest depth of hell.

Rebbe Nachman also stressed the paramount importance of being by him for the Rosh HaShanah holiday. This practice continues even after Rebbe Nachman's passing, as thousands of people from all over the world flock to the city of Uman to be by the Rebbe for Rosh Hashanah.

It has become a common conduct among the followers of Rebbe Nachman to combine both directives by reciting together the Tikkun HaKlali at noon-time in Uman on the Eve of Rosh HaShanah.

If you would like to be a part of this collective recitation but cannot make it to Uman, we will be able to recite the Tikkun HaKlali for you there and then, and give out your charity beforehand.

To send your Tikkun HaKlali charity for this noon-time recitation on the Eve of Rosh HaShanah, please follow this paypal link: 

TIKKUN HAKLALI CHARITY IN MEMORY OF REBBE NACHMAN BEN FEIGA.

PLEASE ALSO MAKE SURE TO SUBMIT YOUR FULL HEBREW NAME AND MOTHER'S NAME (IF APPLICABLE).

With blessings for a good New Year sealed in the books of the True Tzaddikim for good life and peace

Sincerely

Meir Elkabas

@: breslovtherapy@gmail.com

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COLLECTED WORDS OF ENCOURAGEMENT AND INSPIRATION - ADAR/NISSAN 2019

BH

The following are collected words of encouragement and inspiration based on the teachings of Rebbe Nachman sent to hundreds of people over the last three months:

1. As Adar is a month of Chessed, and Rebbe Nachman teaches that a person can rebuild his life and world anew with this attribute of Chessed, so it goes to say that this month is propitious enough to activate this Chessed. The main thing, he says, is to fix a place for your davening daily and to also clap your hands joyfully which also activates the light of Avraham - the personification of chessed. What this of course requires is the proper level of faith in these teachings.
2. In most cases the walls and separation that a person faces in life is what specifically builds up that persons yearning and desire to come closer to Hashem more than anything else.
3. Remember this rule because it is always true - before every breakthrough there has to be some type of obstacle/hardship/difficulty. This was also expressed in what Avraham Aviinu had to go through before discovering and revealing the inner holiness of the Land of Israel, which is one of the biggest breakthroughs in history.
4. As today (7th of Adar) is Moshe Rabeinu's Hiloula it is also propitious again to reconnecting to the tzaddik and to remember that we constantly need his help, prayers, strength and advice to make it through all the challenges of life, since without him we don't really stand any chance at all to even stand on our feet and continue walking the path of true life.
5. As we are now within the 40 day period before Purim it is a very propitious time for setting out your yearning, desire and requests before Hashem, all a major preparation for the day when "all those who outstretch their hands are given alms but also whatever they request from Hashem.
6. These 30 days before Purim are so special in that they serve as a preparation to receive the light and salvation of Purim.
7. As now is the month of Adar it is uplifting with a lot of chessed/kindness. This means that a person also has to believe that the kindness is in the air and ready to interact with a person's life.
8. The main message of Purim is that there is always hope, even in the most darkest situations, as long as a person continues to daven and yearn for salvation, there is hope to transform the darkest dead end situation to the biggest light.
9. When the push comes to shove and you have no idea what to do or what Hashem wants of you, know that this is the scheme of Haman-Amalek. Just knowing this is a consolation and strength as it takes the challenge to a higher level, pushing you to pray and daven more.
10. The light of Purim is meant to help activate within a person a permanent connection to the Holy Land of Israel, so that it's light can continuously permeate a Jew and help him to have a positive and optimistic perspective in life that there is always hope when a person turns to Hashem for salvation.
11. When you are too stressed out and frustrated in life, just let go and let Hashem run things for you.
12. Knowing that Haman-Amalek is the one behind your feeling down and out of it is already half of the consolation and solution, since at least you know it is not you who is the bad guy.
13. The light and influence of Mordekhai is itself the light of the Holy Land, which means that the power and belief that prayer works - which was the whole scoop about Mordekhai's influence - is the mentality and attitude of the Holy Land which a person can draw to himself wherever he is.
14. The basic message of the Purim miracle is that there is always hope for those who turn to Hashem and put their trust in Him.
15. When a person is sick and under the weather, that is a time when a person's faith and trust in Hashem really come out. It is a barometer to measure how much more a person has to work on himself.
16. A test is meant to make you feel abandoned by Hashem. This is meant to see what you will do then: Will you still put your trust in Him and cry out to Hashem, or give up trying and just accept the failure.
17. If a person just views his tests in life as purely physical, they lack motivation to overcome. However, when a person sees everything from the spiritual perspective, being an attack from Haman-Amalek he knows that it is only prayer and emunah that have the final word in a person's "physical" condition.
18. The whole message of Purim - to see the salvation generated through prayer and faith in Hashem and His unending Compassion which can reach every recess and fold of a person's life. He just has to keep on pushing to activate it, by feeling that there is nothing else to rely upon in life except for Hashem's endless and unlimited Compassion.
19. As we are getting older, things are getting a bit rusty, and we need more WD-40 for all the squeaks. BH davening and Torah study are the keys to implement this. Mordekhai connotes Torah study, while Esther connotes prayer. We need both to make it in life.
20. After all said and done, we need Divine Assistance, the merit and strength of the True Tzaddikim and the Holy Torah to get us through even basic life existence. Because commensurate to the amount of darkness and impurity out there in the world we don't stand a chance facing them on our own.
21. May we merit drawing the light of Mordekhai and Esther onto the entire year and may it lead us the way to Pesach and the salvation within.
22. The thing now is to draw the light of Purim - which is the light of Eretz Yisrael - into our daily lives wherever we are and in whatever situation and darkness we may be in - and to shine this light there so that we can open our mouths - Peh Sach - in true prayer. Since, as Rebbe Nachman teaches, the place of true davening and connection is only in Eretz Yisrael. So that is the gift of Mordekhai and Esther, the gift of Purim.
23. As Purim now is a new beginning for reaching the next levels awaiting us in life, we have have the merit of Mordekhai and Esther to stand up against any types of Haman-Amalek who try to stand in our way.
24. The opening of Purim is to enable us to receive the holiness of Pesach properly. This means that even if we continue to have setbacks and frustrations in life, the light of Purim ensures us to have enough strength and stamina to hold on and to keep on pressing forward, until we are truly worthy of being a part of the Pesach legacy and message.
25. Purim is the prerequisite for Pesach in that it connects a person to the sanctity of Eretz Yisrael. When a person has this, he can then enter the world of prayer and emunah. This in turn leads to a person tapping into the secrets of the Torah and life, which are represented by the Pesach offering which was a sheep. The sages teach that sheep refers to the secrets of the Torah.
26. May we merit to have our mouths truly opened this Pesach with true words of thanksgiving and prayer to Hashem, until we totally master the art, technique and ability of prayer.
27. We are not worthy to receive Hashem's Kindness and that He actually listens to our prayers and considers our good deeds as being worthy. As a result we slack in our devotions due to the lack of belief that they have any true value. But the real truth is the exact opposite - because we are so far and low, it is specifically then that Hashem considers and values our prayers even more. But to ingrain and remember this point we need a true tzaddik to always be out there for us and to remind us of all this.
28. The light generated in the month of Nissan is the light of the Tzaddik, which means that we have this extra energy, hope, joy and positive attitude from a level truly above our own personal level. What is needed is to keep this light and draw it out to the entire rest of the year. This is the idea of Pesach and immediately after, the Sefirah counting all the way into the month of Sivan.
29. The biggest miracle of Pesach is that we are given the power and ability to tap into true prayer and attachment to Hashem (this is Pesach which is similar to Peh SaCh- a speaking mouth), this being the main tool to tapping into the secret and hidden true meaning of the Torah, which is essentially the secret meaning behind our life and existence.
30. On Pesach we can merit to experience such a closeness and warmth to Hashem, and if only we would merit to remember this throughout the entire year, since this closeness is what is necessary to believe that Hashem is always there for a person, He has not given up on a person, and that He listens and takes into consideration every word of prayer said, no matter how heavy and down a person may feel about this connection to Hashem.
31. Rebbe Nachman teaches that the vessel to receive all blessings and goodness is done by joining one's thoughts to the words of prayer. Words represent the letter Nun=50 and thoughts represent the letter Yod=10. The 10 plagues culminating to the plague of the firstborn on the night of Pesach, plus the commencement of counting down the Omer until Shavuot is meant to join this 10 and 50, so that the goal of Shavuot is reach complete prayer with total concentration, thus bringing down all the complete blessings.
32. The main light of Pesach is the feeling of freedom. Meaning, to know that Hashem is the One really in charge of our lives and the pressures of the evil desires are what keep us away from Him. Pesach is an experience of this freedom, but we must see to channel it into the rest of the year. This is the idea behind the Sefirat Omer counting period, to draw down this light of freedom gradually into our lives.
33. Positive attitude is so necessary that without it a person cannot even begin to daven. To attach the thoughts to the words of prayer requires major belief that a person is a tzaddik. Otherwise he cannot even lift his head up to daven (see Likutey Moharan lesson 73).
34. The key for making a vessel for prayers to be responsive is to firmly believe that you prayers do make a difference and matter very much to Hashem, no matter how low, far and blemished you may feel.

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Rebbi Shimon bar Yochai's grave shrine in Meron, northern Israel

Lag BaOmer is a special day in that it marks the passing of the great Rebbi Shimon bar Yochai. Thus, it is a propitious day for prayer and celebration, especially by his gravesite in Meron, since his merit and power to help and pray for the Jewish nation on this day is immense.

Reb Noson teaches that the more people who demonstrate their faith in Tzaddikim by travelling to their graves, the more power and strength this gives them to help the Jewish nation as a whole (for more on this subject please listen to: LIKUTEY MOHARAN LESSON 66).

Thus the ancient custom of travelling to Meron for Lag BaOmer.

To help a family get to Meron on Lag BaOmer to pray and participate in the celebration, please follow this link:

SUPPORT FAMILY PILGRIMAGE TO MERON

As a token of appreciation for your support, your name will be mentioned and prayed for by Rebbi Shimon's grave.

Thank you
Meir ben Aliza Elkabas

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COLLECTED WORDS OF ENCOURAGEMENT AND INSPIRATION - TEVET/SHVAT 2019

BH



The following are collected words of encouragement and inspiration based on the teachings of Rebbe Nachman sent to hundreds of people over the last two months:

1. We must be strong and wait out everything, even if everything is going against us. "And my soul should be like earth to everyone". this is the only way to bypass and override everything going against us.
2. As we go through these weeks called "Shovevim" and re-live the bondage and eventual redemption from our personal Egypt, we must remember the advice called "patience" to properly wait out all difficulties, frustrations, etc., just hoping in Hashem in the meantime, until eventually breakthroughs in life come along our way. It is especially important now to train ourselves in being happy with our portion, so matter how seemingly insignificant.
3. Rebbe Nachman's advice for dealing with strife and opposition is to eat well and abundantly at the 3 meals of Sabbath, which I am trying to enhance too due to so much tension, strife and death happening in the world. Shabbat Peace invested in the food of Shabbat has in it's power to resettle everything. That is how far-reaching it is. Truly amazing.
4. As a person gets more and more into his life, he sees much clearer the abundant unearned kindnesses and miracles from Hashem that his life is filled with. What is left is to give thanks and appreciate it all, and to remember that it is all pure unearned kindness.
5. Now that we are going again through the process of leaving our personal Egypt - in line with the Parshahs of the week - it is important that we maintain simple and complete faith in the words, teachings and encouragement of the true tzaddikim, similar to what the Jews needed to have in Moshe in order to properly leave Egypt too.
6. Reb Noson writes that the month of Shvat - the 11th month - is propitious for subduing the evil forces and for allowing new beginnings and breakthroughs to take place. So it is no coincidence that it always coincides with the parshas of Beshalach, Yitro and Mishpatim which deal with receiving the Torah - a new beginning and purification step.
7. With the advent of the Parshah's development of the Jewish nation leaving Egypt, we also personally can feel a type of boost in our devotions, pushing us forward to leaving our own Egypt too. This however requires complete faith in Hashem and Moshe, the epitome of all true tzaddikim, that there is still hope for us no matter how old or how much we have gone through in life..
8. It is not that Heaven forbid, Hashem has abandoned us to be all alone. Rather He is testing our tolerance level of emunah and bitachon, to see how much we can hold on, and at the same time, open our hearts even more in prayer and teshuvah. In the end Hashem always comes through, but in the meantime we must wait. We are doing our best and what we normally do in life, so it is just a matter of patience and emunah.
9. The recounting and reminding daily of Shirat HaYam and the miracles that it brought are to remind us clearly that Hashem is in charge and He alone controls nature and can change any course of nature as He wishes and whenever He wants. What is needed from us is to simply stay with that belief at every stage of life, and not to fall into the trap of desperation.
10. Reb Noson writes that the month of Shvat - the 11th month - corresponds to the 11 fragrances of the Ketoret, and as such has a special power in subduing the evil forces, allowing for new and fresh breakthroughs in life.
11. There are times in life when we are just overwhelmed with the physicality of this world, feeling not enough time or no time at all for davening and learning Torah. Those times are meant simply to build and develop a persons desire which then shape and become a vessel for eventually having more quality and quantity davening and Torah study.
12. Setbacks and failures should not be looked at as being futile and despairing. Rather, they are a sign from Hashem that we have to get back up and try some other approach to achieving our goals. The "cards never run out" so there is a lot to do and try, until we find the right address bringing us into the direction of true satisfaction and delight in whatever we do to try and come closer to Hashem.
13. Hopefully with the splitting of the Red Sea we too shall see openings and breakthroughs in life. Our re-living the parshas of the week is meant to help us get through the new challenges before the new level that we must reach in life. On one hand, we may physically seem to be getting older and weaker, but with the mind, neshama and spiritual in-depth feeling for Hashem, we are just getting closer and closer. So there are levels to reach and connect with.
14. One of the benefits of a leap-year is that it gives us an extra month of utilizing the golden night hours from after midnight until dawn to connect to Hashem at a much deeper and far-reaching level. This again is in line with Rebbe Nachman's words that the main service of the Jewish person is in the winter to wake up at midnight and serve Hashem then.
15. May we receive the Torah with the light of Moshe's hands with which he received the 2 tablets, so that we are able to shine the Ten Commandments into our 10 fingers too, so that we can activate holiness and purity into our davening while/when clapping our ten fingers together!! (see Likutey Moharan lesson 44-46).
16. By clapping our hands in davening, may we constantly draw upon ourselves the holiness and eyes of Divine Providence found in the Holy Land whenever and wherever we daven, so that our prayers can more effectively rise up and bring delight to Hashem.
17. The entire world has hidden within it the holiness and purity of the Holy Land, Wherever a Jew davens, if he feels overwhelmed with the distractions and confusions due to the impurity of the Diaspora, he can simply reconnect to the hidden holiness found there by clapping his hands while praying (see Likutey Moharan lesson 44).
18. By transforming the air quality around you into Eretz Yisrael air waves, your prayers go up much clearer and bring tremendous delight to Hashem. This is such an important feat for this is ultimately the goal of Mashiach, to restore the entire world into the sanctity of Eretz Yisrael. (see Likutey Moharan lessons 44-46 for more on this).
19. Hashem is always and ready to help us to get through everything we need to get through. It is just that He is patiently waiting for us to open our hearts sincerely and simply in order for the gates of bounty and blessing  to descend.
20. As we approach the month of Adar, the first of the four months of Chessed (Adar, Nissan, Iyar and Sivan) with an additional month of Chessed (Adar I), may we merit to arouse Hashem's benevolent kindness which is the only way to survive and bypass the harsh judgements that we generally confront on a daily basis. The holiness of these months emanates from the holy air of the Land of Israel, which is more present in these months than any other time of the year.

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Rebbe Nachman states that the best time to send support to families residing and struggling in the Holy Land of Israel is in the month of Adar, and that by giving charity to such families one actually becomes absorbed in the air/atmosphere/holiness of the Land of Israel (see Likutey Moharan lesson 44).

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Meir Elkabas

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