Torah 4 Before Uman: Belief Means I Don't Understand | Breslov New Hempstead

Kollel Toras Chaim All Shiurim · Aug 31, 2026 · 14m

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In 1958 a twelve-year-old boy asked his mother if he could daven Rosh Hashana with the Breslover chassidim on the Lower East Side. She said no.

So he went to the Mir, and he closed his eyes, and he imagined himself standing with them. And then he asked Hashem for one thing: that next year he should be by the Rebbe's tziyun.

This was Cold War Russia. There was no getting into the country, let alone to Uman. Nobody was talking about Uman at all. He got there in 1969.

That boy was the maggid shiur's father. The letter he wrote about it — to Moshe Yaakov…