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Breslov Efrat - Imagination is the key to true spiritual success; free choice is our imagination!

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BRI Breslov: The Breslov Research Institute

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Everyone, welcome back to Batashem. Another beautiful day here in Israel. We're in the middle of a war with Hashem. It's amazing. It's truly amazing. Unless you're here, you can't understand it. I I really believe that. I mean, I talk to people call me all the time. Are you okay? How do you have how do you give a class? This there's Don't you [laughter] They're all so nervous. dodging me. >> Yeah. Yeah. My grandfather all of a sudden when you walk you go in the rain, if you know the art to walk in between the raindrops, you won't get wet. So here we learned the we learned the way to walk in between the missiles so we don't get hit [laughter] is protecting us. Gracious Hashem is watching us. We feel item. Okay. Uh we're learning. We're learning the laws of making a blessing on something when you smell something and how important it is to the when you smell something and you made the bra. It's it's a it gives the nishama a big boost. It's amazing. And we're learning this idea about mham the madama right the madama is our imagination and really how our lives really are focused around our imagination it's it's amaz it's really truly amazing when you think about it and uh a person will only do something that he imagines will bring him success has he imagines it'll bring him you know happiness tranquility something right people do things they imagine but what you're imagining is not real

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  1. 0:00Everyone, welcome back to Batashem. Another beautiful day here in Israel. We're in the middle of…
  2. 5:41fine difference but it's a big big difference >> go ahead >> visualize it as logic…
  3. 11:58>> The kipas the husks of impurity have their hold on this world of in this…
  4. 18:16Oh, but we learned if I make the braha correctly, I give energy to my nephesh…
  5. 24:04right? Noga is something where you take something you'll eat your garments, right? The person could…
  6. 30:22imagine something of physical of of when I when I when I imagine something in my…
  7. 36:48It's fascinating. as it's brought in all the so this is a wonderful idea that's brought…
  8. 48:54and wisdom and knowledge all people even very wise people It's all connected to their madama…
  9. 55:20own specific relationship with Hashem that no one else has because no one no one's a…

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