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Topics for this week’s class: Land of Beautiful Women; Land of (Free) Speech, and more, powerfully relevant to what the World, the Jewish people as a nation and each person individually are going through during this unprecedented era.
Please join me for The Master of Prayer this Wednesday, in our live phone class IyH. You don’t have to attend previous classes in order to attend, but if you have time, you can listen to the recordings of previous classes:
class 1 Civilization, Money, Hitbodedut, Desire
class 2 The Land of Money, Chanukah Gelt, Educating and Rectifying, the Power of Imagination
class 3 Money and the Chashmonaim, Money as a Deity (Worshipping Money), The Messiah (Mashiach ben Yosef)
class 4 The Meaning of the Hand, Finding Yourself in Torah, The Priestly Blessing, Using Your Hands in Prayer, The Secret/Manifesting Wealth
class 5 The Sefirot & the Characters, The Wise Man, The Child, Finding Yourself in the Story
class 6 The Turbulent Hurricane, The Child, The Warrior, The Goal of Life, The Desire for Personal Honor, The Nasty Beggar, Finding yourself in the story and the story in you
class 7 The Land of Murder, The Land of Abundant Food, Murder, Soul Murder, Jealousy, Unlocking the Spiritual Nutrition in your Food, Refined Eating
While all the Rebbe’s stories and teachings are relevant for all times, this is one in which the current American and global situation will positively reverberate throughout the tale! We travel with the Rebbe through various lands (the land where they worship money, the land where they worship physical strength, and so on) and meet characters that help us make sense of our own journeys, the Master of Prayer, the Warrior, the King, the Queen, and so on. Of course, it is also packed with psychospiritual exploration for us to delve into personally, and connect to emotionally, as well. See the flyer, below, for more information, class times, and call-in number.
The story will take a few weeks to unfold, and I will do my best to make time for your questions and comments in each class.
If you have never heard this story before: DO NOT MISS THIS PHONE-IN CLASS
With joy,
Chaya Rivka
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This week we discuss the land of murder and the land of abundant (refined) food. Soul-Murder, Jealousy, ad hominem attacks, censorship as murder, killing someone through destroying their parnassah, etc. The Souls in Food and Refined Eating, unlocking the spiritual nutrition of your food. You are your own unique world! You are the monarch of your personal “land.” Protecting and Nurturing your own environment. What can Rebbe Nachman pack into a few paragraphs? More than anyone — instruction for life.
What is your relationship to: Money? Status? Power? Physicality? Join me for Rebbe Nachman’s brilliant allegorical-Kabbalistic tale, The Master of Prayer. Free live call-in at 12:15 EST on Wednesdays.
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This beautiful piece is from the prompt for The Sophisticate and The Simpleton, and the lessons we can learn from them about how we relate to and understand “time.” Shulamit Michal Strassburger is also an award-winning writer, she won an award in the BRI Women writing contest in 2018.
Time
by Shulamit Michal (Susan) Strassburger
I have had arguments with time since childhood; the school year went too slow, Summer vacation went too fast, not enough time to study for the test, the test time flew…… Nothing changed in adulthood – couldn’t something be done about that nine-month long pregnancy? Time moves us along to our various plateaus in life. Arguing with time can lead one to the belief he has some control over it.
At each plateau, I felt the Sophisticate fought time in his unwillingness to accept where he was. Where he was, was never good enough. He always looked to his next step, to the future. Assuming he had time and control of it was central to his character. He admits this when the subject of marriage comes up. “But this is not my concern now. I will have plenty of time for this in the future.”
When the Sophisticate receives the letter from the king summoning him, he begins his conflict with time. The first thing he says is, “Wait”, stopping his progress to his next plateau, trying to stop time. He proceeds to block his summons to the king by questioning the king’s existence with everyone. It is like he grabs time by its throat forcing it to his will. Time retaliates, in the guise of the Devil, by throwing the Sophisticate into a quicksand bog rendering him immobile. There is nothing the Sophisticate can do on his own to get himself out. He is stuck where he is for the first time. There wasn’t an argument that would make a difference, nothing he could control. He must live in the present as we all need to.
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This week we discuss the child, the warrior, the goal of life, the death of Rebbe Nachman’s son, Shlomo Ephraim, The Sword, the turbulent storm wind, fear and awe, lashon hara, and so much more! What can Rebbe Nachman pack into a few paragraphs? More than anyone — instruction for life.
What is your relationship to: Money? Status? Power? Physicality? Join me for Rebbe Nachman’s brilliant allegorical-Kabbalistic tale, The Master of Prayer. Free live call-in at 12:15 EST on Wednesdays.
Listen to previous classes here
Sign up at BreslovWoman.org to receive class announcements via email, or join BreslovWoman Whatsapp for free daily mini-lessons and class announcements:
Follow this link to join the WhatsApp group: https://chat.whatsapp.com/0K6yMTGZyDyBvUI0WMpDQP
Or just call in on Wednesdays 712-770-4598 access code 144097# (If you receive Whatsapp or email notifications, you’ll find out what the topic is and whether or not class is scheduled.)
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