🔥 How Far Must You Go to Help Someone in Need? The Torah’s Surprising and Life-Changing Answer

Shalom Aleichem Chevra, so glad you're here with us today! How far would you actually go to help someone who's lost — and what does a prince who thinks he's a turkey have to do with it? In this shiur we dig into one of the most beloved and thought-provoking stories in all of Chassidic teaching: the Turkey Prince, as told by Rebbe Nachman of Breslov. A royal prince goes mad and becomes convinced he is a turkey, sitting under the table without clothes, picking at crumbs and bones. Every royal physician fails. Then a sage comes along and does something completely unexpected — he takes off his robes, climbs under the table, and says, 'I'm also a turkey.' We unpack every layer of that move together, because it completely changes how we think about helping another person. The big question we wrestle with is: how far do you actually go to meet someone where they are? The nimshel, the takeaway, is that every one of us is a prince, a child of the King, who has sometimes gotten so absorbed in our animal self that we've forgotten who we really are. And the sage's job — the rebbe's job, the friend's job — is not to shout from above, 'You're a prince, wake up!' That never works. It's to clim