Rabbi Nachman Quotes

If a person kills a tree before its time, it is like having murdered a soul.-Rabbi Nachman

If you are not going to be any better tomorrow than you were today, then what need have your for tomorrow?

Life is a very narrow bridge between two eternities. Be not afraid. Rabbi Nachman of Braslav

Rabbi Nachman of Breslov said, “The day you were born is the day God decided that the world could not exist without you.

Ne demande ton chemin a personne, tu risquerais de ne plus pouvoir te perdre.

Rabbi Nachman lived two centuries ago,” Rabbi Yosef said. “He taught that we are forbidden to lose hope. No matter what we did in the past, today—every day—we start our lives anew.

Make efforts to only allow positive thoughts. Then miracles will occur within you.” Rabbi Nachman von Bratslav

Never ask your way from someone who knows it. You might fail to get lost.

So all things turn over and revolve and are changed . . . and in the transformation and return of things redemption is enclosed.

As the hand held before the eye conceals the greatest mountain, so the little earthly life hides from the glance the enormous lights and mysteries of which the world is full, and he who can draw it away from before his eyes, as one draws away a hand, beholds the great shining of the inner worlds.

There are leaders who go by the name of "rabbi" but whose learning has been picked up from the "superficialities" and "waste" of Torah. They are unable to control even themselves, let alone other people. But they still have pretensions to greatness and seek to lead and guide the whole world. You should be very careful not to accord them any recognition whatsoever, so as to not add in any way to their power or authority. They themselves can be forgiven for what they do: they are no more than victims of a strong lust for power. The people who give them credibility and power and who are prepared to accord them the title "rabbi" will have a heavy penalty to pay (LM I, 61:2).

You must have enough faith in God’s goodness to believe that you are important to Him. Have faith that you too are precious in God’s eyes. So great is God’s goodness that each and every person is great and important in His eyes. Being humble does not mean you must put yourself in a state of constricted consciousness. Constantly ask God to bring you to true humility and to have faith in yourself. Some Tzaddikim suffer opposition only because they do not have faith in themselves!

The Hasidic Rabbi Nachman of Bratslav (1772–1810) taught, ‘If you are not going to be better tomorrow than you were today, then what need do you have for tomorrow?’ To which Telushkin has added: ‘And if no one feels comfortable criticizing you, the likelihood that you will be better tomorrow is most probably nonexistent.

Chaque jour il faut danser, fût-ce seulement par la pensée.

Every day," said Rabbi Nachman of Bratslav, "the glory is ready to emerge from its debasement.