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The Sweetness of Tough Conversations (Sichos Haran #142-145)

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Rabbi Yaakov Klein

A shiur on Rebbe Nachman's Sichos HaRan, exploring teachings on the Yetzer Hara, spiritual fever, nature, and Torah as prayer.

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Okay, fantastic. So with Hashem's help, um I hope everybody had the most wonderful sh and we jump back on this Monday into our series exploring Rabbi Aman's our class trip with Rabbi Akmed discovering many of the anecdotal teachings and biographical comments about this incredible Jew and and his wisdom and his everything that he comes to to teach us. And we begin. I'm just going to share my screen with jumping back into 142 kuf and here just give me one more second okay so here we begin says it's actually talking and says the following because we're still in that section where we're talking about different teachings that are like adding in information that weren't given over in the actual teachings in but they're related to them. So we begin with the teaching that is related to which is on the says I will make known my faith with my words with my mouth says over there that the essence of a person's faith relates to a person's words how a person speaks And Ra gives the um advice over there that if a person sinks into struggles with amuna and a person falls into a lack of amuna, he says that person should go and and speak words of amuna and and speak to Hashem and say, "Hashem, I'm having a hard time believing in you today. Please help me have amuna and and somehow through the debour in and of itself so that amuna is strengthened." And that's what the Reb says over there. So here says, "I found says a similar um teaching that was recorded by the were those students of Nakman that had been by the Reb before Rabbasen discovered Rabbi Nakman, before he came close. Those were called theim. And they

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