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Rabbi Shmuel Braun
Rabbi Shmuel Braun is a teacher, mentor and lecturer, especially known for his ability to take the loftiest concepts in Jewish mysticism and connect them to everyday life in a way that students from any background and level of knowledge can appreciate. Rabbi Braun sends out "Today's Heavenward Gaze", a daily WhatsApp message, fusing the profound thought of Kabbalah, Chassidism, Philosophy, Literature, Poetry and even Pop Culture in order to elevate the lives of hundreds of listeners with meaning, thoughtful insight and inspiration.
Yud-Tess Kislev Farbrengen- Kuntres Inyana: On the Essence of Chassidus by Rabbi Shmuel Braun
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel BraunRambam, Foundations of Torah Chapter 1, Halacha 1“The foundation of all foundations and the pillar of all wisdom is to know that there is a Primary Being who brought into being all existence. All the beings of the heavens, the earth, and what is between them came into existence only from the truth of His being.”רמב״ם יסודי התורה פרק א, הלכה איְסוֹד הַיְסוֹדוֹת וְעַמּוּד הַחָכְמוֹתלֵידַע שֶׁיֵּשׁ שָׁם מָצוּי רִאשׁוֹן. וְהוּא מַמְצִיא כָּל נִמְצָא. וְכָל הַנִּמְצָאִים מִשָּׁמַיִם וָאָרֶץ וּמַה שֶּׁבֵּינֵיהֶם לֹא נִמְצְאוּ אֶלָּא מֵאֲמִתַּת הִמָּצְאוֹ:
Antisemitism, like everything else in the world, has to be a vehicle for us to experience God even more.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel BraunThe story of creation is the story of a marriage.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
You have been rebellious with God from the day that I have known you.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
One has to know how to look at negativity…
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel BraunThe first step of prayer is to know Who you really are.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel BraunThe need to internalize a peak experience.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel BraunThe most important preparation to receive the Torah.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel BraunUnderstanding the sequence of Pesach, Sefiras HaOmer, and then Shavuos.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel BraunEach and everyone of us spends our life serving God.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel BraunHow to love another as much as oneself.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel BraunRebbetzin Denah Weinberg’s a”h prayer.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel BraunThe world says if you cannot go under, go over; but I say, immediately go over!
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel BraunAfter the fire of prayer is ignited only Torah can quench it.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel BraunI am the Lord your God that took you out of Egypt. Why not “that created heaven and earth“?
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel BraunThe more you know about God, the more the pain from the distance…
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel BraunAn anecdote marking his 30th yahrtzeit.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel BraunChoosing God for no benefit, only because He is king.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel BraunCreated being. Glimmer. True Existence.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel BraunGod made something from nothing so we can turn the something back into nothing.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel BraunTwo times in our history, a tragic event occurred and then repeated itself on the same day years later.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel BraunWorshiping God in the deepest way through the seemingly irrelevant details of Torah.
A Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel BraunA glimpse at the way the fully righteous live.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel BraunOne thing that can never be elevated is chutzpah
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel BraunReligion is not just about who you are, thankfully.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel BraunWorshiping God by spending time with family.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel BraunJust as there are laws to music, there is music in the law.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel BraunThis moment never has been before, be fully present to it.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel BraunEven before you wake up, He’s waiting for you.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel BraunGod is giving the Torah through your mouth right now.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel BraunWhat if I feel unworthy to connect to God?
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel BraunThere’s something even greater than seeing God.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel BraunThe deeper meaning of this spiritual food.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel BraunIn the future, we will pray Shmoneh Esrei loudly.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel BraunThe essence of prayer is encounter with and subsequent absorption into God.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel BraunHalachah and Kabbalah debate about whether or not to hear one’s own voice during prayer.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel BraunMultiplicity, versatility and details of reality are still within God’s Simple, Infinite light.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel BraunShould we use our own effort to make a vessel for God’s blessing to manifest?
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel BraunChassidus is about you having God consciousness.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel BraunThe spiritual meaning of keeping Shabbos.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel BraunWhat does it mean that the Patriarchs kept Torah?
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel BraunHe is in everything, but everything is as if naught before Him.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel BraunOur actions cause much more than we do.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
The transformation of your food into holiness
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
Every power and force in the world is only in God’s hand.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
The reason we make so many Brachos every day
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
The reason we make so many Brachos every day
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
The whole earth is full with ways of seeing Him.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
If only we could feel and see Who is revealed to us.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
Paganism begins with an incorrect view of nature.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
Let us be silent that we may hear the voice of God.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
Let us be silent that we may hear the voice of God.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
The link between Hoshanna Rabba, Shmini Atzeress, and Simchas Torah
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
The date to eat the most, more than any other day of the year.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
God’s declaration of the purpose of creation.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
The day of joy is the day of true repentance.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
What should be the focus of our Rosh Hashanah?
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
If at first you don’t succeed, try try again as many times as necessary because that is success.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
Absence of the soul from God makes the heart grow fonder
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
Fight as a soldier of the House of David.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
The scream might take up less time but is the most significant.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
Obedience together with passionate love.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
The month that’s a microcosm of Torah
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
The nagging feeling we have that something needs to change
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
To change the world we have to begin with ourselves.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
Never underestimate your preciousness.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
Sweetening negativity by seeing its source in it.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
How to transport the ark of the covenant
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
The sickness of not being in love with God.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
Before studying and learning, be still.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
An hour upon the stage and heard from no more.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
The greatest thing to be thankful for.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
Keeping the spirit of the law, not just the letter of the law.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
No matter one’s present, one needs to be aware of the after…
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
Only God exists but the world is not an illusion.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
Inside us there can already be redemption.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
Flesh and blood can conquer fire only with the help of the light of God.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
Maintaining sexual purity is impossible for a human being, unless…we're not just human.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
The deeper reason for why God split the Sea for us.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
What’s the bottom line of the exodus in your heart?
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
What’s the bottom line of the exodus in your heart?
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
Unite in God with the world is the ultimate goal.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
Redemption is not just something of the past or future…
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
A meditation to live in an atmosphere of God.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
The marriage dynamic of Torah and mitzvos
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
The way the snake tries to capture us
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
Within the masks of your life is God.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
If you’re not enjoying your Judaism, you’re not doing it right.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
God is constantly calling you to Him.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
Serving God quietly, or with a lot of noise…
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
How God contracts Himself to enter a physical structure.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
Like a parent, Gods love causes His contraction
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
No impurity in the world can touch a Jews essence.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
A divine perception of the world we live in
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
The ultimate purpose of creation is fulfilled in your house.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
The meaning of the third section of the Shema
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
The many languages through which we have God in our mouth.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
The most important ingredient of prayer
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
The most important moment of the year is right now.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
The deep connection between the first redeemer and the last.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
Sighing and complaining about one’s circumstance is a failure to perceive the infinite nature of God‘s love and compassion for us.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
The deepest bond with God is even when love cannot be felt.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
he deepest part of who you are loves God like the Patriarchs did.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
he deepest part of who you are loves God like the Patriarchs did.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
When things can still be rectified, don’t cry.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
The 5th of Teves and the lesson we can derive from it.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
Living with the redemption, yet yearning for it actualizing.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
The candles can still shine in our hearts if we know the secret of eight.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
Living a contradiction does not mean living a lie.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
All of reality is waiting for you to fix it.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
The two names of our greatest patriarch corresponds to two ways of our being.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
A super imposed harmonizing light of peace; and the peace that comes from within.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
The unfathomable depths of every word of Torah
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
Fluctuation is only external; inner connection is constant.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
Why belief in Redemption is a prerequisite of our faith
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
The dichotomy of the Jew in the modern world
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
A day that’s about rain has much to teach us…
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
A day that’s about rain has much to teach us…
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
What it truly means to become a servant of God
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
Science now says that reality is a Unity.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
Science now says that reality is a Unity.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
Being able to experience what once was only believed in.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
The Zohar equates the emergence of secular wisdom with divine wisdom…
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
The day after Yom Kippur we can first begin serving God.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
Getting satiated and pleasure from the fast of Yom Kippur
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
Getting satiated and pleasure from the fast of Yom Kippur
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
The return into God must be, can only be, with joy.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
Shema Yisroel conveys most accurately God’s kingship.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
The great worship of working on loving God.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
A Talmudic story with a Chassidic twist
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
A Talmudic story with a Chassidic twist
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
An extraordinary supernatural anecdote and Chassidic teaching.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
Only one thing is greater and holier than Torah, you.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
The true place of every Jew, our true existence, is oneness with God.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
The beginning of the end of the Torah, about our relationship with God.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
True prayer can only happen with real belief that God is listening
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
True prayer can only happen with real belief that God is listening
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
The messianic revelation of God’s unity
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
Is God closer to you than your own breath, or ultimate transcendence?
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
The truth of God‘s providence is radical nearness
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
Within each of us is the ultimate declaration of God’s unity.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
The surprising truth about what caused Moses to be humbled
A tangential explanation of the Reshimu, Imprint, that remained after Tzimtzum, God's ability to manifest not as revealed Self.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
We are being asked to wake up to a less easier circumstance… With God close.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
When it comes to your core being, there is always a second chance.
The parable of the ray of the sun that can only be seen as an entity only outside the actual sun.
Prophecy enclothing itself in human minds, like creation, means God does not just remain Infinite.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
The holiness that will resolve Bob Marley’s song “war”.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
Making peace with this world depends on knowing where holiness is found.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
Holiness is not the same thing as feeling spiritual.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
The story you tell yourself about yourself matters most.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
The world is not an illusion just because the Torah says it’s not.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Braun
God is closer to you than your own breath and farther away from you then the distances of the universe…
Every detail in created reality is another Divine Utterance-a Godly revelation tailored to become it
Introducing the foundation of the Ba'al Shem Tov's teachings--Yichuda Ila'a and Yichuda Tata'a ( the higher and lower levels of Unity)
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
We must not try to be unitary but rather show that we are infinite.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
To change the world, and deeper, to change your perspective.
Don't wait for inspiration...the purpose of the world is to train yourself to inspire yourself by contemplating on God's Unity.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
True humility is not thinking ones self unworthy to do what God says to. It’s doing it.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
Divine Providence proportionate to how much one opens up to God.
Three understandings of the relationship between finitude and Or Ein Sof.
The fundamental work of the Rebbe Rashab, Rabbi Shalom DovBer of Lubavitch, "a testament to the wide spreading of the Torah of Chassidus" (Rebbe Rayatz) "in which the foundations of Chassidus are explained clearly with the breadth and order for which he is known, but incomparably more than before" (Lubavitcher Rebbe).
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
Embraced and encompassed like fish, but on dry land.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
As long as we are alive it’s up to us to accomplish.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
Might be all you can afford is a paupers gift, but if it’s authentic, it’s your soul.
Understanding the deeper meaning of the ten plagues, matzah and the essential Galus of the Self.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
Salvation comes from knowing what you are inwardly.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
When you don’t feel your hand being held, you learn how to walk.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
We don’t feel much when praying—that’s why we can.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
The way we are building the third temple.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
If you tried to connect to God, you did.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
The sweetest smell comes from transforming our wildness and impurity.
The maamar that deeply reveals and explains the three levels of Ohr Ein Sof before tzimtzum.
The fundamental work of the Rebbe Rashab, Rabbi Shalom DovBer of Lubavitch, "a testament to the wide spreading of the Torah of Chassidus" (Rebbe Rayatz) "in which the foundations of Chassidus are explained clearly with the breadth and order for which he is known, but incomparably more than before" (Lubavitcher Rebbe).
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
Idol worship begins when one needs something special to connect to God.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
There is a deep connection between the blessings we make each day and the golden calf…
A parable filled exposition of the difference between using the words "light" versus "flow" in relation to Godliness.
The fundamental work of the Rebbe Rashab, Rabbi Shalom DovBer of Lubavitch, "a testament to the wide spreading of the Torah of Chassidus" (Rebbe Rayatz) "in which the foundations of Chassidus are explained clearly with the breadth and order for which he is known, but incomparably more than before" (Lubavitcher Rebbe).
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
Prayer is recognition of the air you breathe.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
Lack of self-confidence is the source of much of our downfall
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
As Holy that humility can be, so can it be destructive.
An in depth Chassidic pilpul proving the Alter Rebbe's (based on the Arizal) doctrine of the Or Ein Sof
The fundamental work of the Rebbe Rashab, Rabbi Shalom DovBer of Lubavitch, "a testament to the wide spreading of the Torah of Chassidus" (Rebbe Rayatz) "in which the foundations of Chassidus are explained clearly with the breadth and order for which he is known, but incomparably more than before" (Lubavitcher Rebbe).
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
The face you present to the world is not the one of Shabbos.
A Daily Dose of Torah with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
Don’t just escape “from“, have where to escape “to“.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
Judaism is not a religion, it’s a relationship.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
Judaism is not a religion, it’s a relationship.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
Creating space for God‘s providence in your mind.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
Seeing the beloved in the details, or only seeing the beloved as all of Judaism.
Today's Heavenward Gaze 1127- All Is God - God Is All (R’Akiva&R’Yishmael) by Rabbi Shmuel Braun
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
We really cannot do more than one thing at once, if you want to really do that thing.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
We crossed the Red Sea when we left Egypt; much greater will be the crossing of the river…
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
For your life to be yours, it has to be about you.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
Not with strength, not with force, but with the spirit of God.
The holiest souls from the world of Atzilus reflec God; Lowly souls might not, but through their struggle they fulfill the ultimate purpose of creation
The fundamental work of the Rebbe Rashab, Rabbi Shalom DovBer of Lubavitch, "a testament to the wide spreading of the Torah of Chassidus" (Rebbe Rayatz) "in which the foundations of Chassidus are explained clearly with the breadth and order for which he is known, but incomparably more than before" (Lubavitcher Rebbe).
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
A baby in its mothers arms doesn’t have anxiety. We should try to be like that.
The most challenging yoke is bringing God down to earth after arousing the desire to ascend above
The fundamental work of the Rebbe Rashab, Rabbi Shalom DovBer of Lubavitch, "a testament to the wide spreading of the Torah of Chassidus" (Rebbe Rayatz) "in which the foundations of Chassidus are explained clearly with the breadth and order for which he is known, but incomparably more than before" (Lubavitcher Rebbe).
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
We may not yet see miracles, but we are in their Source.
The songs and praises of the angels as a preface to Kriyas Shma
The fundamental work of the Rebbe Rashab, Rabbi Shalom DovBer of Lubavitch, "a testament to the wide spreading of the Torah of Chassidus" (Rebbe Rayatz) "in which the foundations of Chassidus are explained clearly with the breadth and order for which he is known, but incomparably more than before" (Lubavitcher Rebbe).
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
Ein Sof is most manifest when he feels exactly what we do.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
The question all that suffer ask about God.
Our efforts during prayer open us up to receive Divine Lights beyond what we can acheive on our own
The fundamental work of the Rebbe Rashab, Rabbi Shalom DovBer of Lubavitch, "a testament to the wide spreading of the Torah of Chassidus" (Rebbe Rayatz) "in which the foundations of Chassidus are explained clearly with the breadth and order for which he is known, but incomparably more than before" (Lubavitcher Rebbe).
Sometimes we might see ourselves as a monster, but at the end of the book we know that’s why we’re alive.
A Gaze Into Tanya -Chapter 1d- The One In The Holy And The Wicked by Rabbi Shmuel Braun
Although we need God to arouse us to serve Him, the real change must come from within
The fundamental work of the Rebbe Rashab, Rabbi Shalom DovBer of Lubavitch, "a testament to the wide spreading of the Torah of Chassidus" (Rebbe Rayatz) "in which the foundations of Chassidus are explained clearly with the breadth and order for which he is known, but incomparably more than before" (Lubavitcher Rebbe).
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
The two worlds of Joseph and Judah are two ways of going through the world that we alternate between.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
Darkness is an added element to creation and so it has to end.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
The month to prepare ourselves to become the ultimate candles is Teves.
A Dailly Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
May we feel God more, so any pain can be triumphed over.
Like a flame, our souls rise to God and descend with Him, assisted by the awakening of God's Spirit within us.
The fundamental work of the Rebbe Rashab, Rabbi Shalom DovBer of Lubavitch, "a testament to the wide spreading of the Torah of Chassidus" (Rebbe Rayatz) "in which the foundations of Chassidus are explained clearly with the breadth and order for which he is known, but incomparably more than before" (Lubavitcher Rebbe).
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
May God hear those yells that we don’t know we need to yell.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
The essence of your soul seize the world without God as a stable of horses.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
The essence of Torah is God with no garments.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
You can meet the righteous in their books
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
God by any other name would not smell as sweet.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
With closed or open eyes know that this is not reality.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
Two perspectives on what the light should do to us.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
Never remain with the garments of religion, get naked with God.
The Simple Essential Pleasure of God in Self that is felt through the inner pleasure of Torah, and the subsequent ascension of the Jewish souls to the Simple Pleasure that cannot be felt though Teshuva from a distance
The fundamental work of the Rebbe Rashab, Rabbi Shalom DovBer of Lubavitch, "a testament to the wide spreading of the Torah of Chassidus" (Rebbe Rayatz) "in which the foundations of Chassidus are explained clearly with the breadth and order for which he is known, but incomparably more than before" (Lubavitcher Rebbe).
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
Sometimes you have to lose what you thought was your place to find your Place
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
There is one way to always get God’s attention
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
Make space for your difficult feelings because that’s where God wants to dwell.
The Song of the unadulterated bliss of pure consciousness
The fundamental work of the Rebbe Rashab, Rabbi Shalom DovBer of Lubavitch, "a testament to the wide spreading of the Torah of Chassidus" (Rebbe Rayatz) "in which the foundations of Chassidus are explained clearly with the breadth and order for which he is known, but incomparably more than before" (Lubavitcher Rebbe).
Torah's Essence reached through Moshe's hitting of the rock, his breaking of the tablets, and other sins, darkness and descent.
The fundamental work of the Rebbe Rashab, Rabbi Shalom DovBer of Lubavitch, "a testament to the wide spreading of the Torah of Chassidus" (Rebbe Rayatz) "in which the foundations of Chassidus are explained clearly with the breadth and order for which he is known, but incomparably more than before" (Lubavitcher Rebbe).
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
Find God from the place that most feels like He’s absent.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
There’s something deeper than illuminating the world. Somehow sanctifying the darkness.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
Never underestimate the power of a Jewish child.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
Being successful can happen in the privacy of your own room.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
Only by being content can we be happy
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
An overflow of love also needs combing.
The mechanics of deep cognitive (Torah) thinking through which one is able to reach new revelations of mind.
The fundamental work of the Rebbe Rashab, Rabbi Shalom DovBer of Lubavitch, "a testament to the wide spreading of the Torah of Chassidus" (Rebbe Rayatz) "in which the foundations of Chassidus are explained clearly with the breadth and order for which he is known, but incomparably more than before" (Lubavitcher Rebbe).
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
Only the Transcendent can know what thorns we must endure to reach completion.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
When the drudgery of daily life gets to you, you know you can now really become who you need to be.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
You are never too young to cry for God to appear to you.
A deep psychological analysis of the interplay between pleasure and will of the soul as an analogy for the deepest dimension(s) of mitzvos—God’s Essence within Self and God's Essence revealed.
The fundamental work of the Rebbe Rashab, Rabbi Shalom DovBer of Lubavitch, "a testament to the wide spreading of the Torah of Chassidus" (Rebbe Rayatz) "in which the foundations of Chassidus are explained clearly with the breadth and order for which he is known, but incomparably more than before" (Lubavitcher Rebbe).
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
Never pretend to feel something you don’t.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
Plant God in your heart— don’t overwhelm yourself.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
A day without some kind of kindness is not a day.
The three loves of God- with all your heart, with all your soul and with me'odecha- and their place in the order of davening
The fundamental work of the Rebbe Rashab, Rabbi Shalom DovBer of Lubavitch, "a testament to the wide spreading of the Torah of Chassidus" (Rebbe Rayatz) "in which the foundations of Chassidus are explained clearly with the breadth and order for which he is known, but incomparably more than before" (Lubavitcher Rebbe).
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
Only from where you are and from where you came from can you get to God.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
After being conscious of God, go higher.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
Predatory animals inside your head can coexist with you in peace with Messianic faith.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
The deepest secret of Torah is your own.
Contraction of the Infinite to emanate worlds/Compression of Himself into finite, physical mitzvos.
The fundamental work of the Rebbe Rashab, Rabbi Shalom DovBer of Lubavitch, "a testament to the wide spreading of the Torah of Chassidus" (Rebbe Rayatz) "in which the foundations of Chassidus are explained clearly with the breadth and order for which he is known, but incomparably more than before" (Lubavitcher Rebbe).
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
You are living through a flood, get into the ark we have.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
God always takes our circumstances into consideration.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
God loves you so much that he makes you feel insecure.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
Right before the messianic revelation, we need to know the holiness of the body.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
Causing God to flow into us, and much higher than that…
Being and Time... and the infinite Kesser Light that transcends them
The fundamental work of the Rebbe Rashab, Rabbi Shalom DovBer of Lubavitch, "a testament to the wide spreading of the Torah of Chassidus" (Rebbe Rayatz) "in which the foundations of Chassidus are explained clearly with the breadth and order for which he is known, but incomparably more than before" (Lubavitcher Rebbe).
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
After doing all the mitzvos of Tishrei, it’s time to just BE with God.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
Daas, Emunah, and the need for seeing above what’s in front of you.
Practically fulfilling mitzvos down here below reaches Essence, beyond the Kabbalistic levels of Transcendence.
The fundamental work of the Rebbe Rashab, Rabbi Shalom DovBer of Lubavitch, "a testament to the wide spreading of the Torah of Chassidus" (Rebbe Rayatz) "in which the foundations of Chassidus are explained clearly with the breadth and order for which he is known, but incomparably more than before" (Lubavitcher Rebbe).
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
Be resilient by knowing that your Space and Place is the Sukkah of God.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
Returning to the source of all by perpetually being ready to become.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
The Sukkah has to be the experience of the holy of holies.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
We all need to go into the holy of holy‘s this year.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
God might be right but cannot ask the impossible…
Teshuva and Simcha are the essence of the soul revealed
The fundamental work of the Rebbe Rashab, Rabbi Shalom DovBer of Lubavitch, "a testament to the wide spreading of the Torah of Chassidus" (Rebbe Rayatz) "in which the foundations of Chassidus are explained clearly with the breadth and order for which he is known, but incomparably more than before" (Lubavitcher Rebbe).
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
When nothing left is real, one can see Truth.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
True fear of God must make you feel serene and peaceful inside.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
Fear God and not people, because the crowd is untruth.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
Forgetting about asking for one’s own needs on Rosh HaShanna is the best way of getting them.
The most Supernal Thoughts and Will of God result from His Pleasure in Self, through you doing a mitzvah.
The fundamental work of the Rebbe Rashab, Rabbi Shalom DovBer of Lubavitch, "a testament to the wide spreading of the Torah of Chassidus" (Rebbe Rayatz) "in which the foundations of Chassidus are explained clearly with the breadth and order for which he is known, but incomparably more than before" (Lubavitcher Rebbe).
Crossing the river that runs from Aden... crossing from God's Thoughts to His Pleasure in Self
The fundamental work of the Rebbe Rashab, Rabbi Shalom DovBer of Lubavitch, "a testament to the wide spreading of the Torah of Chassidus" (Rebbe Rayatz) "in which the foundations of Chassidus are explained clearly with the breadth and order for which he is known, but incomparably more than before" (Lubavitcher Rebbe).
The Chassidic explanation of malchiyos, zichronos and shofaros
The fundamental work of the Rebbe Rashab, Rabbi Shalom DovBer of Lubavitch, "a testament to the wide spreading of the Torah of Chassidus" (Rebbe Rayatz) "in which the foundations of Chassidus are explained clearly with the breadth and order for which he is known, but incomparably more than before" (Lubavitcher Rebbe).
The purpose of the creation of the world
The fundamental work of the Rebbe Rashab, Rabbi Shalom DovBer of Lubavitch, "a testament to the wide spreading of the Torah of Chassidus" (Rebbe Rayatz) "in which the foundations of Chassidus are explained clearly with the breadth and order for which he is known, but incomparably more than before" (Lubavitcher Rebbe).
Introduction- Chabad Chassidism is the theology of the Baal Shem Tov
The fundamental work of the Rebbe Rashab, Rabbi Shalom DovBer of Lubavitch, "a testament to the wide spreading of the Torah of Chassidus" (Rebbe Rayatz) "in which the foundations of Chassidus are explained clearly with the breadth and order for which he is known, but incomparably more than before" (Lubavitcher Rebbe).
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
The most important thing we ever do for God.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
This year, make the space you live in Divine.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
The courage to be authentic to one’s inner self is the search for God.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
Focusing on the positive relationship with God that you need to develop inside is the truest repentance.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
Breathe in the pure faith of the two great luminaries of our people.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
Within your heart is what your mind needs to reveal…
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
Even after all the miracles, only one thing indicates authenticity…
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
We dream of suddenly being discovered as royal… Because we are.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
You might not feel anything when serving God but loves deepest romance and passion is in the dark.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
An important philosophical speculation shows how God is closer to you than your own self.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
No thought can grasp God, but ours has to. How?
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
Feelings of alienation and distance are necessary for passion.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
Don’t look at Shabbos as a day of don’ts.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
My grandfather of blessed memory was “simple“… If only we could be.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
A fundamental understanding of the way our Torah works.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
Patrilineal descent is only temporary when it comes to serving in the temple.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
Stand up for what you believe God to be in, even when unpopular.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
Whatever name you call anything by, you are also referring to God.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
Love God by wanting Him through his creation.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
Allow the inner part of who you are to shine.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
A story of miracles and how we can be part of them.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
A story of needing to know the secret to accomplish, but doing more when staying simple.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
Those that know the secret, know to show God at the most perfect confluence of events, which is… Now.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
Connection to God is dependent on humility, not brains.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
Pray to God especially when you are not feeling holy and good.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
Even God did not plan for the ways you can connect to Him.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
The secret of the breath of life is prayer
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
It’s never too late to beg God for mercy.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
A Talmudic story about a king and a prophet.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
Hear God’s voice from Sinai every day.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
Where you are right now can be Israel.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
If you believe God is in this moment now, you must be there fully.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
Wherever you are, be there completely.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
With God we are “sexual” as His wife and “blameless” as His baby.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
Very soon we will all be dancing in the holy of holy‘s.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
Looking at someone and seeing them is two different things.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
We have to grow up, but not ever totally in God’s eyes.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
The journeys of our lives to join the ground of being with our form.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
Every person has a point of beauty in God’s Eyes that no one else does.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
Ascending up to God; bringing God into challenges.
The Kabbalistic doctrine of God’s contraction revealed to be a further manifestation of His Essence.
Today’s daily Torah is for the sake of the ascent of the soul of Rabbi Shmuel Yaakov Weinberg, of blessed memory, the Dean of Ner Israel Yeshiva in Baltimore. He passed on the 17th of Tammuz.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
Children (like us) cannot be trained by beating, only by being in a rapture of love of God.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
Hear the truth that you are within God already.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
God looks at the world through your eyes; try to look at the world through His.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
Your perspective is your reality. But then there’s deeper than that.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
God and the highest spiritual worlds are physically here.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
Inner peace in the body can be achieved only through balance which for a Jew is wanting the spiritual and then returning to the physical.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
Don’t trade Infinity for a little cheap trinket.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
Finding the good in the call for perpetuating a rebellion.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
Grounded and centered in God and letting go of all else.
A virtual Farbrengen with R' Shmuel Braun, and R' Joey Rosenfeld moderated by R' Moshe Tzvi Weinberg elucidating and clarifying concepts within Chassidus, Kabbalah, and the Psychology of the Soul.
A response to the article by Rabbi Aaron Lopiansky "Sometimes Mashiach is Not the Solution"
Let’s learn together an incredible essay written by Reb Ro’ee Horen, of Ben-Gurion University in the Negev. It’s from his Hebrew book “The Baal Shem Tov: The Man That Came From The Forest.” In the essay he says many things I have been thinking for a long time, including summarizing -in his opinion-the main three spiritual-growth-goals that the Baal Shem Tov introduced...Something we all need to focus on if we truly want to facilitate the change that this time calls for.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
The white of the parchment is much holier than the black letters. Same with you.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
The ocean of your (un)consciousness is only the “foot” of (the “body” of the) levels of consciousness that even surpass eternal human bliss and redemption.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
The Kabbalah taught Jung to seek deeper than Freud
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
It takes a lifetime to discover the greater part of who we are.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
As beautiful as the day we were married…
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
The climate of your life is decided by your mind.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
Torah is not (primarily) about the words, it’s about the breath of Whom you’re kissing.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
Shma Yisroel-never forget who you really are.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
A hero lies in you, but only in the darkest places.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
One can’t spend a whole lifetime looking for Lollipops.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
Not an “easy” recording—But probably the most important.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
The most important Kabbalistic and Hasidic meditation to get clear.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
The concept of a world – spirit, and beyond…
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
Every moment of life as an invitation and the revelation of God’s kingship at the same time.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
Can one cleave mystically to the divine and still love as a human being?
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
A story of suffering, and relating to God through the suffering.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
Belief in essential goodness is the only (non)path to change.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
Radical subjectivity necessitates radical ownership of one’s person.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
All the sins were placed upon the goats head and it was destroyed.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
All the streams of wisdom are pointing in One Direction.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
Don’t forget to ask God for the most important thing.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
Taking individual responsibility for what you can do to change the world.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
he loneliness you’re experiencing is a vessel for His Infinite Aloneness.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
An abstract geometric figure becomes a new way of living.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
A leaf on a branch outside your window is not less God than the highest spiritual world.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
Living with being disappointed by God.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
The whole world wants to be slaves to love…
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
The most insidious slavery is to an internalized system of which one is not aware.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
Only by validating the full range of who we are can we sing a song of redemption.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
For a Jew, hoping for the Messiah is our lifeline.
"The thing I dread most is not to be worthy of my suffering" -Dostoevsky
A Yud-Aleph Nissan Farbrengen/ Shabbos HaGadol Drasha/ A Preparation for Passover Class
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
Your perspective on this bizarre period must change your approach to its reality.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
A story about someone who thought he had the worst Seder of his life…
Haggadah Highlights- A Virtual Preparation for the Passover Seders by Rabbi Shmuel Braun
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
A guided imagery meditation for relaxing into God.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
God is close to the poor and downtrodden...which is all of us now.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
I’m no prophet but this seems to me like Purim all over again…
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
This is the time to bring your inner Self from exile.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
Every human being carries a burden on their shoulders, but your choice is what that burden will be.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
We have to be extra special careful about fighting with those we love when we are all on such edge.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
God‘s majesty needs to be felt in our bodies.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
This is the time to make sure absolutely nothing stands between you and God.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
The ingathering of our own inner exile is the order of the day.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
The experience of fear is inevitable but our choice is what to do with it…
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
Sometimes you have to be alone to find the parts of you that really need to pray to God.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
Take the opportunity that many are being given to spend deep, fully present time with God.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
It might sound like partying, but listen better and you’ll hear the inner sadness.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
For a people that make up way less than 1% of the worlds population, why is everyone so obsessed with us?
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
The ultimate secret of the irrational, drunk holiday.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
The lottery thrown by the wicked Haman, above “the name” of God, and Yom Kippur.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
As Stalin was about to launch a murderous libelous campaign against the Jews, he was killed by the Lubavitcher Rebbe on Purim.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
The most important moments of our day, that will last for all eternity…
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
Realizing the profound significance of each of our actions.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
Looking forward to the time when we will never rise up again…?
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
The reason of our constant joy becomes increased in this month.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
Our devoted Lover wants to either be hugging us all the time, or -even more-to let us hug Him.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
Only by fusing holiness into physical objects can one touch the Divine Essence.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
Only God, transcendent of any definition of materiality or spirituality, can penetrate physical touch.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
Sexual union as the ultimate metaphor for the Messianic redemption.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
The famous medieval debate about whether sexuality can be holy.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
Healing of the mind and spirit comes through touch of the body, especially when it’s God doing the touching.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
When your clothing actually sanctify…
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
There’s a reason we need to tell ourselves every day to Shma.
A response to Allan Watts and all others that feel God cannot be found in you now as you are.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
Each word you say to God, and each here now are handles to grasp onto everything God is.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
Judaism is about uniting the Infinite with the totally mundane and uninspiring.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
Reaching the rock-bottom of one’s soul when no illumination shines forth.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
Living life seeking others approval is being a slave to many masters.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
Whether Moses is teaching you or some guy or the internet or some book, if it’s Torah it’s God.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
Allow your mouth to be the conduit through which God enters each place.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
Is your “place“ the space that surrounds you or the space you fill?
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
Trying to feel at home in this world without God is like trying to build a home on quicksand.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
Feelings of worthlessness and insignificance are the ultimate exile.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
All of reality began first rising up in God on this special day…
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
One could lose anything and survive, unless they lose their courage…
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
The greatest pleasure we can have is to know how much pleasure we give to God.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
So much disappointment comes from expecting a feeling to be something that it’s not…
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
In times of trouble, hear words of wisdom whispering to let yourself be in God.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
Make sure you listen deeply to what’s being sung in the words.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
It is in this world that God wants to be most vulnerable, expressed, and intimate.
A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel Braun
Only God can fully hear you and see your subjective experience.