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Article: How's your hisbodedus?(JEWISH WORD)
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- January 1, 2009
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"I have been having real problems with my hisbodedus lately," reads a post from a user who calls herself Yiddishe Mama on the Breslov Hasidic group's web forum. "Every time I try, I lose my thought, get distracted, fall asleep(!), feel totally overwhelmed. As a consequence, my hisbodedus has trailed off ... Help please :)"
Help came quickly. "Shalom dear Yiddishe Mama," one hisbodedus authority begins. "Take a nice shower, eat a good breakfast, put on some good Jewish neshama music--maybe the Breslov radio--get up and start to sing and dance, and you will soon feel Hashem giving you new strength." Another user, who has posted a Rabbi Nachman excerpt about the ...