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Concept Map

Every connection here was written explicitly, points to a passage that exists in the collection, and carries the reason it was made. A connection with a missing end is not shown, so there are no dead links or unsupported claims here.

The topic descriptions and the reason for each connection are written in Hebrew, as are the references.

Hitbodedut

Regular, personal conversation with God in one's own language, as Rabbi Nachman describes it in Likutei Moharan and in his talks recorded in Chayei Moharan.

23 documented connections

Joy

Joy as a spiritual practice rather than a mood: the great mitzvah of always being joyful, where joy comes from, and how to bring oneself to joy, from Likutei Moharan and Chayei Moharan.

17 documented connections

Sadness

Sadness as a harmful trait: its root in a lack of faith, how it differs from a broken heart, and how to turn it into joy.

8 documented connections

Faith

Faith as the foundation: how faith grows, its connection to speech and to prayer, and how to guard it.

14 documented connections

Simplicity

Serving God with sincerity and simplicity, without sophistication: in daily service, in prayer, and in the question of free choice.

7 documented connections

Prayer

Praying even without fervor, a little at a time with intention, stray thoughts during prayer, and prayer as a poor person asking for a free gift.

11 documented connections

Strengthening

When it seems you are being pushed away: persistence in serving God, falls and rises, and the teaching that there is no despair in the world at all.

11 documented connections

The Good Point

Judging every person favorably and finding a little good in oneself, and how melodies and prayer grow from those good points.

10 documented connections

Starting Over

Beginning anew each day: starting again after a fall, why all beginnings are hard, and the heart of a new beginning.

8 documented connections

Fear and Worry

The narrow bridge and not being afraid: fear and a faint heart, fallen fears, and worry.

8 documented connections

Anger

Anger as a trait that costs a person his wealth, anger and the loss of clear thinking, and subduing anger and sweetening it with compassion.

7 documented connections

Teshuvah

Always holding on to repentance, complete repentance, shame and the saying of Psalms, and what to do when the inner awakening fades.

10 documented connections

Will and Yearning

How precious yearning is: expressing longing in speech, longing when one cannot study, and yearning even when it does not succeed.

10 documented connections

Thoughts

A person's thoughts are in his own hands: two thoughts cannot be held at once, bad thoughts need no battle, and stray thoughts during prayer.

5 documented connections

Livelihood and Trust

Thinking only about today, trust in God versus the desire for money, worry about livelihood, and the link between livelihood, understanding and prayer.

7 documented connections

Tikkun HaKlali

The ten psalms that Rabbi Nachman called the general remedy, as recorded in Sichot HaRan.

5 documented connections

Shabbat

Joy on Shabbat, Shabbat as faith and understanding, the Shabbat meals, and carrying the holiness of Shabbat into the weekdays, as they appear in Likutei Moharan, Likutei Etzot and Sefer HaMiddot.

13 documented connections

Niggun and Song

Melody as drawing out the good spirit from sadness, the good points from which melodies are made, melody and prayer, ten kinds of music, and whom to hear a melody from.

9 documented connections

The Tzaddik

What Likutei Moharan, Likutei Etzot and Sefer HaMiddot say about the tzaddik: binding one's prayer to the tzaddikim, three aspects of drawing close to them, and the truth that comes through their counsel.

11 documented connections

Torah Study

Torah study according to Rabbi Nachman: seizing moments for Torah, a fixed daily portion, learning with simplicity, a simple person before the letters of the Torah, and Torah and prayer.

8 documented connections

Rosh Hashanah and Uman

Rosh Hashanah according to Rabbi Nachman: good thoughts, joy and weeping, the blowing of the shofar, traveling to the tzaddikim for Rosh Hashanah, his own Rosh Hashanah, and Uman.

9 documented connections

Rectifying the Traits

The four elements from which the character traits come, and what Sefer HaMiddot says on anger, truth and peace, joy, faith, prayer and thoughts.

15 documented connections