Rabbi Nachman’s lesson about the “good points” was the first piece I ever learned from his master work, Likutey Moharan. This was over thirty years ago in the summer 1977, when I was just embarking on my Torah pathway – a 27 year-old secular intellectual working as a BBC radio commentator...

Will the real Israel please stand up © Rabbi Avraham Greenbaum I was in my mid 20’s when back in 1974 I began my slow trek home to my Torah roots. I thought I was alone in no longer feeling satisfied by any of the “truths” and “realities” on which I had been nurtured in...

Nobody human brought me back to the Torah. In retrospect, it was as if I was dragged there despite myself, by a hidden power that somehow succeeded in overcoming my own stubbornness. Estrangement from Torah Not long after my Bar Mitzvah, I rejected the mish-mash Judaism with which I was brought up, just...