Rav Shagar
Prayer and the Tzaddik
Rav Shagar • 2007Rav Shagar's shiur on Likutei Moharan 65: on the deep connection between the tzaddik and his chasidim, on the value of true speech, and on the ligh...
Torah 57: Medicine, the Sage's Wisdom and the Tikkun of Eating - Part 1
Rav Shagar • 2008When Rav Nachman speaks of the 'Torah' - he is speaking of a higher Torah, the source of everything that is to be found in reality. Every creation,...
Torah 57: Medicine, the Sage's Wisdom and the Tikkun of Eating - part 2
Rav Shagar • 2008Rav Nachman describes how God’s speech creates the world and from it also the power of healing. Similarly: postmodernism claims that medicine – and...
Torah 57: Medicine, the Sage's Wisdom and the Tikkun of Eating - part 3
Rav Shagar • 2008The third part of the shiur on Likutei Moharan 57: on the relation between language and reality, and on the similarity and differences between the ...
Torah 57: Medicine, the Sage's Wisdom and the Tikkun of Eating - part 4
Rav Shagar • 2008The fourth part of Rav Shagar's shiur on Likutei Moharan 57: on the faith regarding the oral Torah and the authority of science.
Torah 57: Medicine, the Sage's Wisdom and the Tikkun of Eating - part 5
Rav Shagar • 2008 Rav Nachman claims that a flaw in faith in the sages can be rectified through a vow. He likens the wonder of the vow to the wonder present in fait...
Torah 57: Medicine, the Sage’s Wisdom and the Tikkun of Eating – part 6
Rav Shagar • 2008Rav Nachman describes the sages's powers of interpretation as a miracle. He say that the creativity of the Sages is given free reign, but herein li...
Torah 57: Medicine, the Sage’s Wisdom and the Tikkun of Eating – part 7
Rav Shagar • 2008True faith in the Sages is a faith which is active while the Sage’s behavior and advice are realistic, tangible. There is, however, a dangerous kin...
Torah 57: Medicine, the Sage’s Wisdom and the Tikkun of Eating – part 8
Rav Shagar • 2008Rav Nachman presents the chiddush that meriting Shabbat is achieved specifically through eating on Shabbat – “And you will eat/enjoy the inheritanc...
Likutei Moharan 57: Medicine, the Sage’s Wisdom and the Tikkun of Eating – Part 9
Rav Shagar • 2008There is a deep connection between chessed and a rectified eating. An act of eating that lacks generosity and chessed leads - like any other primal...
Likutei Moharan, Torah 8: Spirit, Inspiration and Halacha - Part 1
Rav Shagar • 2005One of Rabbi Nachman’s special traits – as this Torah and others show – is his belief that spiritual problems can be rectified through physical mea...
Likutei Moharan, Torah 8: Spirit, Inspiration and Halacha - Part 2
Rav Shagar • 2005Rav Nachman guiding us away from a fragmented, contracted method of observation, instead
he directs us to learn to breathe deeply - to develop a ...
