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What’s covered:

• Reb Nosson’s “Breslov burns a fire—burn it in my heart” as a model of praying what you learn.
• Core yesod: “Ha-chipus atzmo hu metzi’ah” – the act of searching is itself a finding.
• Why inner gains often can’t be seen, so they require emunah (e.g., “I’m not there yet”).
• Concrete applications: setting small kabbalos, hitbodedus, showing up to minyan, keeping heart-sense during crisis.
• Asara B’Tevet lens: we’ve “lost” things (taste, tenderness, presence) — keep searching and trust the increments.

Rav Shlomo Katz reflects on Reb Nosson’s lifelong courage to walk the narrow bridge of Emes — truth. Drawing from Reb Nosson’s writings and tefillos, the shiur explores what it means to live with honesty before Hashem, to pray from within confusion, and to keep moving even when we feel small or uncertain.

Through stories of Reb Nosson’s break from his earlier path, his devotion to Rebbe Nachman, and his teaching that the bridge of life itself is called Emes, Rav Shlomo shows how hitbodedus, emunah, and Azamra become tools for staying real and connected in a complicated world.

The evening closes with niggunim and heartfelt tefillah inspired by Reb Nosson’s own words:

“To be brave enough to walk the bridge of truth, even when it shakes.”

If you’re still getting to know yourself, who are you judging when you judge yourself?

Standing beside Reb Nosson’s resting place, Rav Shlomo explores the depth of “אל תדין את חברך עד שתגיע למקומו” — not only about others, but about oneself.

We don’t yet know our makom, our full place or story — across lifetimes, struggles, and moments of light — so how can we condemn the unfinished soul we’re still discovering?

A moving Breslov journey through self-compassion, divine patience, and the lifelong work of Azamra — finding the good even within ourselves.

Recorded as preparation for a journey to Uman, this shiur opens the world of Breslov: Rebbe Nachman’s lineage, his brief but world-shifting life, his arrival in Eretz Yisrael, and his bond with Reb Nosson — the pen through which all of his Torah was preserved.

We learn what it means to “believe in Hashem and in Moshe His servant,” the role of the tzaddik emes in every generation, and the depth behind Rebbe Nachman’s words: “My Rosh Hashanah is greater than everything.”

Through history, questions, and heartfelt reflection, Rav Shlomo invites us to approach Breslov not as followers of a movement, but as seekers of Hashem - through the light of those who built bridges between heaven and earth.

Rav Shlomo Katz shares the life story of the one who never stopped climbing — how Reb Nosson transformed despair into devotion, confusion into prayer, and running from into running to.

Through song and story, from his dream of the ladder to his meeting with Rebbe Nachman, from the cry “בברסלב בוער אש, הבער אותה בליבי” to his lifelong avodah of perseverance, we learn how to return to Hashem even when we feel furthest away.

A heartfelt journey through mesirus nefesh, tefillah, and the fire that still burns in Breslov.

We explore Reb Nosson’s practice of turning Torah into prayer, asking Hashem for a matnas chinam to reach and keep rising in קדושת ארץ ישראל.
 
Brief reflections on the day’s depth (Reb Nosson’s yahrzeit and the Chasam Sofer’s note on geulah) round out this redemptive, heart-opening shiur.

When everything feels overwhelming, Reb Nosson teaches: don’t take on the whole battle at once. Create space. Divide your “camps.” Grab (lachtof) even one small moment of tefillah, of simcha, of clarity — even if all you can manage is to whisper “Hoshia.”

This shiur invites us to breathe between the burdens, to write our own tefillos like Reb Nosson taught, and to rediscover strength not by fixing everything, but by holding one spark at a time.

Featuring the nigun “There’s a fire burning in my heart — Breslov.”

Reb Nosson teaches that in the Land, holiness consumes us, not to erase who we are, but to reveal our truest selves. To live here is to be absorbed into emunah, into kedusha, and into the essence of the tzaddikim. Yet it requires a deep patience with ourselves and others, a tolerance born of emunah.

Rav Shlomo weaves Reb Nosson’s words with the Chasam Sofer’s teaching that Asara B’Tevet is a Yom HaDin shel Geulah, the “day of judgment for redemption,” urging us to notice the signs Hashem sends, to hold on to faith, and to let the Land itself teach us how to wait with grace.

Why is Maariv reshut (optional)? Reb Nosson explains: Yaakov saw the long, bitter darkness of galut and gave us permission, and power, to daven even when we feel mute and confused (na’alamti dumiyah). In that place, obligation can backfire; permission opens the gate.

With the strength of the tzaddikim, we discover how to cry out to Hashem in the night, not run away. Themes include: praying from darkness, no–ye’ush (no despair), turning “running from” into running to Hashem, and giving a friend a drop of chizuk that flips everything for the good.

In this shiur, we hear Reb Nosson’s fatherly voice urging his child, and us, to grab moments of holiness each day, to add a little more light, daas, and kedusha. Reb Nosson warns against the bitterness of coveting money, calling it mar m’mavet — more bitter than death — and reminds us to always run to Hashem, not away.

Through Reb Nosson’s teachings, we discover how to sweeten life’s confusions, live with gratitude, and find the strength to pass on blessings to our own children.