Why is everyone escaping to the forest? The secret of Hitbodedut in nature 🙏

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Shalom Arush’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

Thank you to Hashem, Father thank you, we were privileged to reach the forest, We reached our destination, the forest. Rabbi Nachman of Breslov says: Hitbodedut (secluded prayer) is the highest and greatest level of all. There is a special quality to the forest outside the settlement; the air is clean, a place with no people, among the trees there is a special virtue here. A father loves his children, and Hashem loves me even more. A father wants his children to be well, and Hashem wants me to be well. And sometimes the Creator of the world does something to us just so we will talk to Him, because of the connection. Once you have a connection with the Creator, I am the created and You are the Creator, I am the creature and You are the Maker, no one understands me but the One who made me. And Rabbi Natan says: Wherever I see a lack, it is either because I didn't pray, or I didn't pray enough. A time will come before the arrival of Mashiach when people will go out to the fields and forests; it will be like putting on tefillin, as people do every morning throughout the world today. Our Rebbe promised that whoever does an hour of Hitbodedut every day, he fixes himself in this world and in the next. Our holy Rebbe said that for a person, on a day he does Hitbodedut, when he comes to

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1. 0:03Thank you to Hashem, Father thank you, we were privileged to reach the forest, We reached…
2. 0:34something to us just so we will talk to Him, because of the connection. Once you…
3. 1:04Heaven they will turn the page, they won't judge him for that day. This righteous man…
4. 1:34satisfaction, serenity, I can look at the world differently. >> And what does the forest do…
5. 2:04, because the whole connection is only through speech. The Rambam says that the Torah commandment…

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