People have been cherry picking passages from Rebbe
Nachman’s writings for a long time. We see this in Outpouring of the
Soul, called in Hebrew Histap’kuth HaNefesh. It was complied in 1904 by Rabbi Moshe Yehoshua
Bezishianski, known as the Reb Alter of Teplik.
Reb Alter combed through Rabbi Nachman’s writings and found passages particularly
suited to meditation, and its allied pursuit according to the Bratslaver Hasidim, prayer.
What we get in this small distillation of the Rebbe’s
work is the rock hard center of his thinking about mediation and prayer. How to do it, how to keep it up, and what to
expect from it. Translated by the noted
expert on Jewish mediation, Aryeh Kaplan, this small book is really indispensable
for an understanding of Jewish meditation in a condensed form.
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