Inner Lights Unknown

Niggun Havayah is a journey of the soul wrestling with uncertianly and awakening to the Divine saftey, love, presence and comfort that is Havayah, this moment.

Hayayah is all of us: our deepest selves, our innermost light and our innermost reservoir of healing and wholeness.

As the mind slips into "hayah", the past of what was and "Yiheyeh" the future of what will be, we gently remind the mind to withdraw from the center to allow the soul's timeless light of present moment awakening and wholeness to permeate our being.

In doing so, we land in Havayah.

Here, and only here, do we encounter our innermost selves & innermost light.

Torah on Parshat Metzorah from the sefer Aish Kodesh, the Pieseczna Rebbe's collection of near weekly sermons to his holy flock from within the destruction of the Warsaw Ghetto, on Yom Hazikaron laShoah ve-laG'vurah, a day that celebrates the inner strength of the survivors and those who fought back against the Nazi destruction.

The Rebbe discusses how concealed within destruction is Redemption, and one must try to believe that everything that happens is for the good. We also looked at 2 Torah teachings from Rebbe Nachman of Breslov who reiterated the Rebbe's messages regrading the limits of knowledge and the power of faith in G-d's goodness. (Sichot Haran 3; Likutie Moharan 4:1)

We learned Torah 6 and 8 from Rebbe Nachman's Likutie MoHaran where Rebbe Nachman discusses in Torah 6 how one must embrace from the offset that Teshuva/Repentance/Returning to G-d and our essential selves, is a two pronged process of failure and success, of ups and downs, of doing more but also accepting just being where we are at.

In Torah 8, Rebbe Nachman talks about the importance of the breathe, of breathing, pausing, living in the now and accepting our lack.

A Torah from Reb Natan of Breslov's Likutie Halachot in honor of his Yertzite, on how we need to look for the good within ourselves, why the Jewish people's first mitzvah was to sanctify the moon, and how there's no such thing as a Jew having gone to far.

We learned a piece from the sefer Aish Kodesh on this weeks Parsha, Parshat Cheyei Sarah, while also looking at a piece in Rebbe Nachman's Likutei Moharan Tanyana 12 on screaming out to G-d.

Shiur looking at the story of the heart and the wellspring from Rebbe Nachman as an expression of the finite yearning for that which is infinite. We also looked at a song by Rav Kook where Rav Kook describes the souls desire to move beyond its bodily limitations and boundaries.