The Seven Pillars of Faith and A
Day in the Life of a Breslover Hasid are very early basic introductions to
Bratslav thinking and practice. They were written by Yitzchok Breiter,
who was born in 1886 and died in the Shoah sometime in 1943 in Treblinka.
Both books cover a great deal of
ground, both summarizing and quoting Rabbi Nachman and his chief follower,
Rabbi Nathan. They both read surprisingly like works one would find
today in the Jewish Renewal movement; they stress the “big-hearted” element of Bratslav,
the joy of worship and living and doing for others that is such a wonderful
mark of the movement.
This is a fine book to get your
feet wet in Rebbe Nachman’s teachings. It also bears a stamp of
authenticity, as if was written by a card carrying Bresolver, in the days just
before most of European Jewry was annihilated.
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