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Live Broadcast Today: You're Good

 

 

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Your soul is completely good - just like Hashem. That's why His love for you is endless. You can encourage yourself with this at anytime -   No matter that you have a yetzer hara - Hashem will never leave you.

This is the subject of today's broadcast entitled "You're Good." It's sponsored by Breslev Israel.

You can see it today Wednesday at 5:00 PM Israel time at our Chut Shel Chessed Yeshiva, 13 Shmuel Hanavi Street, Jerusalem, in the main sanctuary. Everyone is welcome, both men and women so if you're anywhere near Jerusalem, come on by! You can see today's lesson here - the broadcast, as well as our lessons posted from now on - are Mac and iPod compatible. If you tune in too early to the live broadcast link, you'll be sent to the main page of the Breslev Israel website, so try to tune in on time as follows (Israel is still on winter time while the USA is still on Daylight Savings time): 8:00 AM in LA and the West Coast, 9:00 AM Denver, 10:00 AM Mexico and Central Daylight, 11 AM EDT, 4 PM in the UK, 5:00 PM Johannesburg and Capetown, 5:00 PM Israel. As soon as we can, G-d willing, we'll post a link to the lesson for all those who couldn't see it live. If you can't see the broadcast, you might need to download a new version of Flash Media player, which you can do here.

We hope you enjoy the broadcast. I hope you can join me.

With Blessings,

Dr. Zev Ballen

7 Steps To Greater Sanity

 

 

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When Life Seems Impossible

1. Close your eyes. Say: "Hashem, my Father I know you are here. I'm scared and confused. 2. Please hold me and guard me from all harm. 3. Please pull me out of this (situation) and hold me close. 4. Let me feel Your Light, Your Truth and Your Strength. 5. Thank you for reminding me that You are here. 6. I wish to know more about Faith and personal holiness.  7. I wish to breath with an awareness of You all day!"

An Opportunity To Grow

Ultimately we will be reunited with all of our loved ones. There will be a great resurrection of souls. Everyone will return to healed and perfected bodies.

Although we feel the loss of my wife's father, may he rest in peace, we are finding this to be an incredible opportunity for growth. You can continue reading about this in this week's article on Breslev Israel. It's called: Kaddish.

Here's the rest of this week's articles from Breslev Israel:

Giving Our Best - By Rabbi Shalom Arush

Hellenism - Nothing New - By Rabbi Lazer Brody

Shilo - By Tal Rotem

Diamonds in the Dirt - By Racheli Reckles

Great Expections - By Natalie Kovan

Discovering My Childhood - Rivka Levy

See You Later - By Rivka Levy

Our Holiday, Our Land - By Natalie Kovan

Casting Logic Away - By Rabbi David Charlop

With Blessings,

Dr. Zev Ballen

Unlocking Your Real Power

We agree with psychologists that say a vision and persistence are essential for achieving mastery in anything. But if a person tries and tries and still doesn't "succeed" - then what?

This video is about your real power - where it is - and how to access it fast. I hope you enjoy it!

 

Blessings for a great week!,

Dr. Zev Ballen

Piercing The Heavens

Do you ever feel like you're about to burst? The prophet Jeremiah said: " Arise, cry out! Pour out your heart like water before G-d." This is the only path to true Salvation. 

 

Rivka became a psychotherapist in the hope of curing herself from her lifelong battle with low self-esteem. Now in her sixties, she doubts that the teachings of Rav Arush can still help her. See how I answered Rivka in this week's parsha newsletter.  

With Blessings for an extraordinary family Shabbos,

Dr. Zev Ballen

Top-Ranked Scientists Geared To Religion

 

 

The Army's brightest scientists gather at West Point, N.Y.             image credit: RDECOM

Science usually discredits  "creationist purpose-based" explanations of natural events - for the first time, a new study reveals how scientists from top-ranked American Universities really think.

Researchers in Boston University's Psychology Department found that, "despite years of scientific training, even professional chemists, geologists, and physicists from major universities such as Harvard, MIT, and Yale cannot escape a deep-seated belief that natural phenomena exist for a purpose." (Science Daily)

The researchers asked the physical scientists to answer true or false to statements such as: "Trees produce oxygen so that animals can breathe" or "The Earth has an ozone layer in order to protect it from UV light." When the scientists were put under time pressure and had little time to think about their answers they tended to accepted these "Creationist" accounts.

When the researchers asked the same questions to another group of scientists, who were not being rushed, they found that they generally rejected the idea of an underlying purpose to creation. 

Deborah Keleman, the primary author of this research expressed her surprize that even the most vigrorously trained  scientific minds are "more naturally geared to religion than science." They prefered to see nature as purposeful rather than random.

With Blessings,

Dr. Zev Ballen

Live Broadcast - Unlocking Your Power

  

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Everyone agrees that our decisions and rituals shape our lives - that persistence in some area of life is essential for a person to achieve mastery and success. What people disagree about is on what rituals will give them the results that they are looking for. What area of your life - if it changed - would lead you to the greatest boost in your personal performance, productivity, health and happiness?

This is the subject of today's broadcast - it is called "Unlocking Your Power."

You can see it today Wednesday at 5:00 PM Israel time at our Chut Shel Chessed Yeshiva, 13 Shmuel Hanavi Street, Jerusalem, in the main sanctuary. Everyone is welcome, both men and women so if you're anywhere near Jerusalem, come on by!

You can see today's lesson here - the broadcast, as well as our lessons posted from now on - are Mac and iPod compatible. If you tune in too early to the live broadcast link, you'll be sent to the main page of the Breslev Israel website, so try to tune in on time as follows (Israel is still on winter time while the USA is still on Daylight Savings time): 

8:00 AM in LA and the West Coast, 9:00 AM Denver, 10:00 AM Mexico and Central Daylight, 11 AM EDT, 4 PM in the UK, 5:00 PM Johannesburg and Capetown, 5:00 PM Israel. As soon as we can, G-d willing, we'll post a link to the lesson for all those who couldn't see it live. If you can't see the broadcast, you might need to download a new version of Flash Media player, which you can do here. We hope you enjoy the broadcast.

I hope you can join me.

With Blessings,

Dr. Zev Ballen

The Illusion Of Truth

                                                                                                                                                                          

Research suggests that our minds have an easier time processing ideas that are familiar to us than ideas that are less familiar. We also tend to ascribe greater "truth" to those thoughts that come to us more easily. This illusory truth can be quite discouraging for many of us.

What is more familiar to you - thoughts of encouragement or thoughts of despair?

Here are four potent tools,  from Rabbi Arush, that can quickly bring you encouragement and Light whenever you need it:

1. Remember that all thoughts of encouragement are the Truth - they come from G-d; and all thoughts of despair are false and do not come from G-d.

2. Ask yourself: Who do I want to listen to? Do I want to listen to G-d or to the forces of falsehood?

3. Exercise your power of choice to focus on what is really True and not simply on what is familiar.

4. Repeat to yourself: "Hashem loves me. He is with me at all times. Even if I've fallen He will help me start again!"

Have a Blessed Day!

Dr. Zev Ballen

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A Lesson From Uman

I was alone in a field when I was accosted by six Ukrainian youth who were demanding my money. I saw on their faces the same insane hatred that senselessly murdered so many of my ancestors. They came at me throwing rocks. As I ran, I heard the rocks whizzing past my head...

Don't miss the dramatic conclusion in this week's article on Breslev Israel.

Here are the rest of this week's articles:

Empty Handed by Rabbi Lazer Brody

The Sound of Music by Rabbi Shalom Arush

The Beauty Exchange  by Racheli Reckles

The Holy Rebbe Mattia by Tal Rotem

The Loisville Slugger by Natalie Kovan

Discovering My Children by Rivka Levy

The Tougher Test  by Rabbi David Charlop

With Blessings,

Dr. Zev Ballen

Fearless Action

A person can't talk his way into living the life that he really wants - he needs to take action. Bold and focused action is where you soul shines brightest. This video will teach you 4 essentials tools to get you started.

Have a great week!

Dr. Zev Ballen