Lost Princess - Enters the Tzadik (ep 3)

Hey friends! What's up Chevra?! What does it mean to lose the princess — and what does it take to actually go find her? In this episode we dive deeper into Rebbe Nachman's story of the Lost Princess, and we're zeroing in on one of the most relatable ideas in the whole thing: the concept of 'episug.' That Yiddish word captures something painful and real — living your spiritual life in the past tense. Not davening, but wanting to have davened. Not doing the thing, just wanting to have done it. We talk about how that creeping feeling of epis is exactly what the loss of the princess looks like in real life, and how so many of us can remember a moment where something of that sweetness, that aliveness in our relationship with Hashem, just quietly went missing. We also get into why the princess disappears at night — what lila, darkness, and the forces of the world have to do with the tzimtzum, with concealment, and with free will. The Chevra knows that in the Torah's worldview we don't start with the day and end in darkness. We start in the night and move toward the light. That's our whole mission. David Hamelech wakes up in the middle of the night and brings the dawn — and that's the