English Breslev learning with practical emuna.
Breslev Israel Podcast is a large English-language library of Breslev teaching, moving between translated classes, book study, holiday preparation, and practical emuna. The tone is devotional and direct, with speakers connecting Torah portions, Uman questions, Shabbat observance, singles, family life, and gratitude to everyday choices.
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Breslev Israel Podcast is a broad English-language channel for Breslev teaching, emuna practice, and community shiurim. It does not present religion as background inspiration. It treats Torah learning, prayer, gratitude, family obligations, and personal discipline as the shape of daily life. Many episodes sound like live classes, with greetings, dedications, WhatsApp questions, book references, and reminders to share the teaching. The center of gravity is emuna. Speakers return again and again to trusting Hashem, saying thank you, and choosing blessing over complaint. A weekly Q&A may begin with Parashat Re'eh, move into Rashi and Sanhedrin, and then answer questions about Uman Rosh Hashanah during war in Ukraine and Russia. The advice is practical. It weighs marriage, children, livelihood, work hours, and service of Hashem in the same breath. Other episodes carry the energy of traveling classes, especially Gedale Fenster's LA teaching on attracting better things by living from a blessed state rather than a stressed one. The show also makes room for seasonal urgency. Shavuos preparation, Purim joy, Pesach flow, Rosh Chodesh, Nisan, and Mashiach language all appear as living calendar moments, not decorative references. Some installments are mystical and intense. Others are slow book study, including Breslev Book Club readings from Rav Arush's work on the Chacham and the Tam. The format is rarely polished in a studio sense, but that is part of the texture. It preserves the feeling of people gathering, learning, asking, dedicating merit, and trying to stay connected across Israel, New York, Los Angeles, Thornhill, and online platforms. For the right listener, that immediacy matters more than slick production. The show is best understood as a working archive of English Breslev life: devotional, communal, direct, and constantly returning to joy, thankfulness, Torah, and closeness to Hashem.
Made for: This show is for listeners seeking English Breslev shiurim, translated Torah classes, emuna guidance, and holiday-centered Jewish learning. It especially suits people comfortable with devotional language, Hebrew terms, and live-class pacing.
What sets it apart: Its strength is the mix of translated Rav Arush Q&A, travel-based classes, book study, and highly immediate community updates. The episodes keep theology close to lived questions about marriage, work, Uman, stress, gratitude, and family life.
Excited to Introduce the Emuna Podcasts! We have a great lineup from our beloved center and studio in Holy Jerusalem, Israel from Rabbi Shalom Arush shlita. We look forward to special guests like Rab Yonatan Galed, Eli Goldsmith, Gedale Fenster, Nissim Black, and many more :) For the inspired year 5782 2022 we will please G-d, continue our online and in person tour together beyond with Rabbi Arush called "Emuna is Our Future". Please contact [email protected] for #love #soul #joy - #EmunaisourFuture #tour!
A struggling shoemaker becomes your case for dropping the master plan and taking the next faithful step.
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A live Torah class that connects blessing, gratitude, and the pressure of Uman and work.
PlayNext's Religion & Spirituality feed presents a practical, question-led shiur on Parashat Re'eh, where blessing and curses, gratitude, and listener concerns all sit in the same frame.
A move from Yerushalayim becomes a gentle reflection on finding closeness to Hashem through change.
Moving out of Yerushalayim gives this single episode its central spiritual image. A sudden, costly, and emotionally loaded change becomes a way to think about finding new closeness to Hashem, even when life seems to be pulling a person away from what feels most sacred.
A live Purim class that ties Moshe, Mordechai, and inner joy into one urgent devotional push.
The piece braids platform housekeeping with the title "Amuna is our future" and a teaching that returns to Moshe Rabbeinu as a living source of soul.
Daily halacha, case by case.
Parsha questions carried into serious Torah argument.
The host announces his move from Jerusalem and details Rabbi Shalom Arush's upcoming US tour, including sold-out events in Brooklyn.
A Torah study session from the Breslev Israel Podcast, continuing a lesson from Rav Arush's book on page 88, discussing a story about a Chacham's journey.
A preparation talk for the Jewish holiday of Shavuos, featuring Rabbi Shalom Arush discussing spiritual readiness and faith.
Eli Goldsmith hosts a weekly Emuna class focused on Purim, dedicating it to two recently killed brothers, Hillel and Yehudah Yanev.
Rabbi Shalom Arush opens with Parashat Re'eh, quoting "blessing and curses" and saying Hashem places the choice "before you" every day.
Eli Goldsmith’s Breslev Israel Podcast class connects Amunah, Jewish unity, Tisha B’Av, and the planned expansion of his media work beyond Breslov platforms.
Rabbi Shalom Arush explains that listeners should cry for the Temple not only because it was destroyed, but because the third Temple was not built today.
Breslev Israel Podcast examines Rabbi Nachman’s story of the Tam through Rav Nissen David Kivak’s interpretation, following a simple shoemaker who struggles with limited livelihood.
Eli Goldsmith's 113th Amunah class connects Shabbos Chazan, the nine days of Menachem Av, and visualizing the Third Temple with developing a personal vision.
Rav Shalom Arush, translated by Rav Dayan Elgrod, opens the Emuna Weekly Q&A by linking the start of the month of Av and the destruction of the two Temples to the people of Israel's "crying in vain" over the spies' report.
Eli Goldsmith opens the Breslev Israel emuna class by tying the 42 journeys of Parshat Matot-Masei and the Three Weeks to the theme of "eternal world." He reads pages 320-322 of Rav Shalom Arush's "A New Light," where Rabbi Nachman says attaining joy is harder than any other work and requires half an hour of daily focused prayer.
Rav Shalom Arush opens the Breslev Israel Q&A class, translated by Rav Dayan Elgrod, with three reasons from the Chovot Levavot why people are not grateful, and illustrates gratitude with a student's clicker counting each "thank you." He tells of a wealthy Baltimore man who said thank you for 15 minutes a day for having no children, after which his wife became pregnant.
A Breslev rabbi teaches how to attract better things in life through spiritual discipline and faith, emphasizing a blessed state over a stressed state.
A religious class discussing the concept of Mashiach flow and the power of prayer, dedicated to healing and Torah study.