What If Humanity Lived Like Monks Instead of Chasing Success?

Hey friends! What's up Chevra?! Should we all just become monks and retreat from the world — or is there something even more powerful waiting for us when we come back down the mountain? In this shiur we dig into one of the deepest questions a person can ask: is the ideal life one of total spiritual retreat, or are we meant to bring our light back into the world of people? We explore this through the teachings of Rabbi Nachman of Breslov — specifically Torah Daled — and what it means to pursue true, complete holiness, what he calls shleimus of kedushah. We unpack the difference between the world of ayin (pure spiritual light, beyond all things) and the world of yesh — the world of stuff, of people, of Oreo cookies, of everything that pulls at us day and night. The key insight Rabbi Nachman gives us is that real holiness is not staying on the mountaintop. Real holiness is going up, receiving the light, and then coming back down to be with humanity — connected, present, and grounded. We also go deep into the Zohar's teaching on the side of light versus the side of darkness. The dark side does not start outside of God — everything comes from the One. But darkness is what happens wh