I am a writer. My bread and butter is copywriting and social media management, but I am trying to get more exposure for my poetry. I’ve been writing poetry off and on over the last 30 years or so, but over the last year, I’ve been quite prolific, releasing dozens of new poems.
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Rabbi Shmuel Braun is a teacher, mentor and lecturer, especially known for his ability to take the loftiest concepts in Jewish mysticism and connect them to everyday life in a way that students from any background and level of knowledge can appreciate. Rabbi Braun sends out "Today's Heavenward Gaze", a daily WhatsApp message, fusing the profound thought of Kabbalah, Chassidism, Philosophy, Literature, Poetry and even Pop Culture in order to elevate the lives of hundreds of listeners with mea ...
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Today’s Heavenward Gaze 1430 – Why You Need To Meditate
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Today’s Heavenward Gaze 1429 – Reb Elimelech of Lizhensk’s Mikva Consciousness
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Today’s Heavenward Gaze 1428 – Shavuos Transformation: Skull Of Our Soul
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Today’s Heavenward Gaze 1427 – The Plumber’s Warning: Smashing The Idol Of The Vengeful God
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Today’s Heavenward Gaze 1426 – Lag B’Omer-The Secret Of Praising God
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Today’s Heavenward Gaze 1425 – King Menashe and Our Unbreakable Bond
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Today’s Heavenward Gaze 1424 – Maybe Not Pleasure, But Happiness
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Today’s Heavenward Gaze 1423 – How To Do The 10th Commandment
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Today’s Heavenward Gaze 1422 – Taiva-Eating Hot Chili Peppers
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Today’s Heavenward Gaze 1421 – Those Who Gave All—Yom HaZikaron
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Today’s Heavenward Gaze 1420 – Beauty Of Beauty-לכתחילה אריבער
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Today’s Heavenward Gaze 1419 – The Messiah Suffers From Our Sins
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Today’s Heavenward Gaze 1418 – The Eternally Constant Now Of God
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Today’s Heavenward Gaze 1417 - Meditation In Our Time: The Red Horse Of The Ba’al Shem Tov
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Today’s Heavenward Gaze 1416 – Sad Adar – A Love Note To The Depressed
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Today’s Heavenward Gaze 1415 – Let Your Heart Exalt You
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Today’s Heavenward Gaze 1414 – But They’re Hungry-A Story Of Laughter And Tears
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Today’s Heavenward Gaze 1413 – “I’m Not A Chassid”
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Today’s Heavenward Gaze 1412 – Prayer Must Precede Torah Study
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Today’s Heavenward Gaze 1411 – Sir Isaac Newton And The Snotty Seven Year Old
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Today’s Heavenward Gaze 1410 – Terumah-The Theme Of Reality
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Today’s Heavenward Gaze 1409 – Near, Far, Wherever You Are
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Today’s Heavenward Gaze 1408 – Born Again, Each Day
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Today’s Heavenward Gaze 1407 – Silence And Noise – From Desolation Peak To Sinai
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Today’s Heavenward Gaze 1406 – The Kabbalistic Analogy of Stain-Glass Windows
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Today’s Heavenward Gaze 1405 – Songs Of Fire And Clouds
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Today's Heavenward Gaze 1404- Feeling God in Hell
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Today's Heavenward Gaze 1403- Light Of EinSof Above And Below
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Yud-Tess Kislev Farbrengen- Kuntres Inyana: On the Essence of Chassidus
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Today’s Heavenward Gaze 1402 – The Key To The Heart
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Today’s Heavenward Gaze 1401 – Dveykus-The Alter Rebbe’s Tikkun HaBris
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Today’s Heavenward Gaze 1400 – God Does Not Exist
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Today’s Heavenward Gaze 1399 – The Maimonidean Controversy
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Today’s Heavenward Gaze 1398 – The Foundation Of All Foundations
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A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel BraunRambam, Foundations of Torah Chapter 1, Halacha 1“The foundation of all foundations and the pillar of all wisdom is to know that there is a Primary Being who brought into being all existence. All the beings of the heavens, the earth, and what is between them came into existence only from the truth of…
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Today’s Heavenward Gaze 1397 – Until Shiloh Arrives-Maharal On Christianity’s “Proof”
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Today’s Heavenward Gaze 1396 – Swords Of Iron – Asara B’Teves and the War
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Today’s Heavenward Gaze 1395 – Ayin Mi-Yesh All Just A Ray
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Today’s Heavenward Gaze 1394 – Yesh Mi-Ayin Ex Nihilo
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Today’s Heavenward Gaze 1393 – Dust Of Liminal Holiness
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Today’s Heavenward Gaze 1392 – When We’re Lost
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Today’s Heavenward Gaze 1391 – Praying With No Kavanah – Part 2
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Antisemitism, like everything else in the world, has to be a vehicle for us to experience God even more.By Rabbi Shmuel Braun
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Today's Heavenward Gaze 1390- Mission Of Marriage
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A Daily Dose of Chassidus with Rabbi Shmuel BraunThe story of creation is the story of a marriage.By Rabbi Shmuel Braun
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Today's Heavenward Gaze 1389- Praying With No Kavanah
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Today's Heavenward Gaze 1388- My Sister, My Bride
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Today’s Heavenward Gaze 1387 – Sunrise, Sunset
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Today’s Heavenward Gaze 1386 – The Munkatcher Rebbe’s Message
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