Tisha B'Av with Rebbe Nachman (shiur on behalf of BRI)

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

Sitting here on yet another Tisha B'Av, facing the devastation and the darkness that the Jewish nation has so often encountered throughout Jewish history. It behooves us to reflect upon a crucially important fundamental teaching of Rabbi Nachman in a few places in Sefer Sichot Saran most specifically and explicitly about the distinction between atzvus, depression, depression, and lev nishbar, a broken heart. And the Rebbe draws a mighty line of distinction between these two things, even though on the surface they look quite similar. And the Rebbe says there's a huge difference between atzvus, which we'll translate here as debilitating sadness or depressiveness, and this experience of brokenheartedness, lev nishbar. While atzvus is something that the Rebbe writes in Likutei Moharan a very strong lashon about feeling a very strong lashon about feeling atzvus, he says atzvus hu Atzvus is an experience of the other side. It's contrasting to the side of kedusha, the antithesis of being able to connect to Hakadosh Baruchu. And he goes so far as to say that Hakadosh Baruchu sone ota. Hashem hates atzvus. Hakadosh Baruchu soyne oysa. A person who is in a state of atzvus is A person who is in a state of atzvus is engaging in something that Hakadosh Baruchu he he just cannot stand. It is the contrast, the the the the antithesis to what it means to live a life of connection to Hakadosh Baruchu in that moment. While atzvus is something that is seen as so antithetical to holiness. Lev Nishbar, Rebbe Nachman says, is something that is incredibly precious.

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1. 0:02Sitting here on yet another Tisha B'Av, facing the devastation and the darkness that the Jewish…
2. 2:05something that is incredibly precious. What's the distinction? The distinction is that when a person is…
3. 4:41not been working out for me and I'm in the dark and I'm in the mud…
4. 7:13sh'ol, right? To to get to a point of such darkness and loneliness where it becomes…
5. 9:44out to do what I need even that there's nobody else to rely on. I've already…
6. 12:24at least as real to me as everything around me that he created that I take…
7. 15:00"Karov Hashem l'chol kor'av." Hakadosh Baruchu is close to whoever calls out to him "l'chol asher…
8. 17:32parts of my life, and then the rest of my life and it is is fundamentally…
9. 20:06whoever has das, it's like the base hamikdash was rebuilt in their days, to be able…
10. 22:39uses the word "I shall leave." This I shall believe. I have allowed the following idea…

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