Deep Breaths

Deep Breaths – My Journeys through the Days of Mercy invites you to touch the hidden depths of the author’s spiritual world. The book sails through the depths of the “Days of Awe”, which with age and maturity have been transformed into “Days of Mercy”.

…There are unique intuitions that awaken in me already in the days of Menachem Av, which know how to recognize the first light of dawn of the moments of mercy, reconciliation and compassion, in the thick darkness of the chaos of destruction and collapse in the days of the month of Menachem Av…
The Days of Mercy awaken an infinite longing for lost worlds, for the source from which we came…

This work seeks to awaken the heart and soul to days full of meaning and fateful significance, which shape human and religious identity, and asks us to carry this meaning into the everyday days “after the holidays” as well.

This book dives not only into the religious meaning of the Days of Awe, but also into the depths of the soul, on a path of emotional and spiritual searching towards finding the self. Its words allow those who seek meaning in this season of soul-searching to see the dawn of the year in a new way.

Rabbi Yair Dreyfus, born in Jerusalem, heads Yeshivat Siach Yitzchak.
In his work the author moves between different languages that speak to one another – an expression of our being citizens of many worlds.

The author has published many articles in various forums and is the author of the books:
Touches in the Language of the Heart – the author’s life journey alongside Rabbi Shagar
A Wedding of the Lost – a new reading of the Tale of the Seven Beggars by Rabbi Nachman of Breslov
Deep Breaths – My Journeys through the Days of Mercy is his second book of sermons,
after Beloved Friends – Wedding Sermons, published together with Rabbi Shagar.