Simplicity & Joy

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The opening of this shiur, in BRI Breslov: The Breslov Research Institute’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

[Music] Rebbe Nachman warned not to be over stringent he said if only I love I that we can keep the code of Jewish law to the minimal requirement already that is an accomplishment to keep torah law to normal not under minimum but what's required and not to be overly stringent and he warns what's the danger of and he warns what's the danger of becoming overly stringent is that if a person develops following stringent opinions so then when life gets more difficult as he gets older so because it took too much upon himself and he has to begin to cut from what he's doing his commitments he the guilt feeling is so strong I'm now having to give up these items that he took upon himself out of stringency that he has he's at risk to drop everything altogether god forbid he says the person sometimes it's so stringent if you cover sometimes it's so stringent if you cover the stringency is he will drop everything altogether if only a Jew would just keep even what's the minimum requirement of Torah Jewish law that is already something great and it's understood that people have this attitude because normal people are young and their blood is boiling that's the expression in the 20s and 30s so a person has energy and strength and it's only a distal that people want a maximum especially people who discovered the value and importance of serving a Shem and putting all the energy and effort

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1. 0:01[Music] Rebbe Nachman warned not to be over stringent he said if only I love I…
2. 0:33and he warns what's the danger of becoming overly stringent is that if a person develops…
3. 1:03sometimes it's so stringent if you cover the stringency is he will drop everything altogether if…
4. 1:33and putting all the energy and effort into that and all the strength so it makes…
5. 2:03earlier the guilt feeling is so strong that a person begins to say it's all or…
6. 2:35the mitzvot with joy with sincerity with simplicity of honesty that's what counts it's how you're…
7. 3:06make it you can go on but as a person when he's young and he's process…
8. 3:36fulfill what's required of him minimal and not to look for over two engine seized because…

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