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Maybe the reason kids nowadays don't respect their parents is because they learn in school that their great grandparents were orangutans.

Tonight - Monday night - is Passover Seder night. Seder night is a family affair when children, parents, grandparents and great grandparents get together to refresh our awareness that we are descended from holy ancestors whom Hashem delivered from bondage in Egypt. The more we go back in time, the closer we get to our monumentally holy great grandparents. That's why we have so much regard for previous generations. Have a look:

Anger - the Real Chametz

Hashem's Mercy

Rebbe Nachman of Breslev teaches (Likutei Moharan I:64) that Hashem created the world in order to reveal His mercy, because if He hadn’t created the world, He would have no one to whom He could reveal His mercy.

What do we learn from Rebbe Nachman’s teaching? We come to the conclusion that if Hashem created the world and all the creations therein in order to reveal His mercy – and you and I are His creations – then Hashem created us in order to have mercy on us and to show us His mercy.

With this in mind, each of us has to tell ourselves:

1)Hashem created me in order to have mercy on me and to show me His mercy;

2) Everything that happens in my life from A to Z is a result of Hashem’s mercy on me.

3)Since everything Hashem does is mercy for me, I have to thank Him for everything that happens in my life.

Look what happens as soon as we live our lives with this one tiny but amazingly important bit of information that Rebbe Nachman of Breslev teaches us...

Continue reading Hashem's Mercy in this week's issue of Breslev Israel web magazine.

Also this week:

Meet the Golden Dome, our cherished friend and London's upcoming musician and composer, David Dome.

Rav Shalom Arush gives tells what to do about a Broken Heart.

Rabbi Pinchas Winston talks about the meaning of getting rid of chametz in A Lesson of Responsibility. You'll find loads of quality reading for Pesach here, as well as the Breslev Israel Seder Overview, a guide to the Passover Seder that will make life much easier for you.

The Melitzer Rebbetzen talks about the Jewish home in Tent of Jacob.

Hardboiled Eggs is our new series for Breslev Kids.

Rivka Levy advises us to Choose Happy. Chaya Ovadia says that there's Proof in the Pudding.

Snakes & Scorpions is Part 10 of Warriors of Transcendence by Rabbi Erez Moshe Doron.

Have a wonderful week and make sure to prepare for Pesach with a smile on your face.

This week is Shabbat HaGadol and Parshat Tzav.

The Upside Down World

Rebbe Nachman of Breslev warned us not to let this world fool us. The Yetzer (Evil Inclination) is a master in making Passover - our joyous freedom holiday - a dreaded misery, especially during preparations this week. The Yetzer tells us to be stringent when we should be lenient, and he tells us to be lenient where we should be stringent. We hope you enjoy today's emuna talk, Upside Down. 

Women's Wisdom: Your Dream is Within Reach

To order Women's Wisdom online, click here. Have a wonderful Shabbat and weekend!

To Live or not to Live: with Mom-in-Law...

Dear Rabbi Lazer,

I need your urgent advice. I'm engaged, and my wedding date is in 6 weeks (Lag B’Omer). My fiancé, a fresh honors graduate from med school, had been accepted for internship in a reputable Colorado hospital, and promised me (before our engagement) that right after the wedding, we'd be moving out West. Now, he's been accepted to intern in a very prestigious hospital in his home town of NYC, which I utterly can't stand. To make matters worse, he wants to save money by us living with his parents, since they have a tremendous house, and all their other kids have moved out already. I feel like I'm getting a raw deal, my stomach summersaults with nerves, and I'm having second doubts about the marriage, with a guilty conscience to boot. Rabbi Lazer, am I being selfish? My fiancé promised me that we'd be living in Denver; NYC is bad enough, but am I expected to live with his parents? I feel like a lamb being set up for slaughter, and I don't like it. As a rabbi, would you allow me to break off the engagement? Please answer me as fast as possible. Thank you so much. Betsy from Pennsylvania 

Read my answer to Betsy in Living with Mom-in-Law in this week's issue of Breslev Israel web magazine.

Rav Shalom Arush presents us with two wonderful articles this week: The Poor Man's Prayer and Moment of Trial, which is the final part of his wonderful series on Family Purity.

If you feel like you're the only one that's talking to Hashem, Rivka Levy tells you that You're Not Alone.

Four Shadows is Part 9 of Rabbi Erez Moshe Doron's gripping Warriors of Transcendence.

I'll bet they never taught you about Aristotle's Confession in your ancient history class...

The Melitzer Rebbetzen suggests that we try looking at life through The Rosy Glasses.

Tal Rotem gives practical guidelines to Shmirat Eynayim (Guarding our Eyes) in You can Too, My Brother.

Bracha Goetz is Getting Rid of Chometz, like the rest of us.

Breslev Kids can read the final Part 5 of The Grouchy Grizzly.

This week's Torah portion is Vayikra.

Great News: Guess which new book went to print today...

Hold On!

Our weekly 60-minute emuna lesson will give your spiritual preparations for Passover a completely different dimension. Click here to see Hold On! Blessings for a wonderful weekend; may that smile never leave your face.