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Rebbe Nachman's Chess Games

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BRI Breslov: The Breslov Research Institute

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[Music] Rebbe Nachman once advised of nothing to speak to other people about serving God and he suggested them that if you see the person is not so directly interested in speaking about spirituality but there is a possibility of through speaking to the person about mundane issues such as for example today baseball football basketball red cars and sports and everything in fashion and from that conversation you can get to spiritual items it's worth rabbinical Donelson it's worth investing time speaking about even mundane items if you have a feeling that it can eventually lead to spiritual topics about the purpose of life and I mean any stress this idea that it's something very important that every Jewish should should be involved with and you said that this is also the unique greatness of the tsadikim that they are able the highest level to directly connect to people at their mundane 'ti and from there to bring them back the classic example was renowned Himself who in his last year and a half of his life in the year 1810 1809 1810 in the city of oman and the ukraine he befriended three of the leading masculine these were jewish enlightened intellectuals who had began to cast upon them from themselves the yoke of serving a shem of Torah observance it became very you know modernized very open very liberal very not believing god forbid in Hashem in the tour and it's a deacon and yet Rebbe Nachman was able to reach out to them into their inner spark he was

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