Say Along — תיקון הכללי

The Road · 55 readings in order

What is Tikkun HaKlali?

Tikkun HaKlali is a sequence of ten chapters of Tehillim taught by Rebbe Nachman for spiritual repair. These readings explain the practice and why joy matters when a person is trying to return to Hashem.

About 7 minutes per reading. You can pause and continue later.

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What can be repaired?

One long road winds from a stone house with a glowing window, past a hillside and a table in a field, toward a tall forest at dawn.

Begin with the ten chapters and their purpose, then follow the teaching into daily life. Purim and Pesach develop the same ideas before the series turns to the opening of the Seven Beggars story.

A narrow footpath winds over dark hills at dusk toward a small stone house with one glowing round window.The possibility of returnStops 1–8 · 47 minBegin with what the ten chapters are meant to repair, and why saying Tehillim belongs in the work of teshuvah.
  1. 1What can be repaired?What the ten chapters are meant to repair, with teshuvah as the starting point.3 min
  2. 2How the teaching reached usHow Reb Noson preserved Rebbe Nachman’s teaching about the ten chapters.7 min
  3. 3The practice, the promise and its sourceWhat saying the chapters involves, and how the practice differs from the promise at Rebbe Nachman’s grave.6 min
  4. 4Obstacles and the wish to returnWhat Reb Noson’s obstacles teach about wanting to return and trying again.5 min
  5. 5A power meant to give lifeThe life-giving power discussed in this tikkun, and why the circumstances of a failure matter.8 min
  6. 6Speech needs both giving and boundariesWhy the rav connects the words of Tehillim with the repair of personal holiness.5 min
  7. 7Speech coming out of exileHow the Exodus and Yosef’s speech explain the connection between words and the bris.6 min
  8. 8Song, sight and understandingThe ten forms of song, and how seeing beyond the surface belongs to the repair.7 min
A fiddle and bow rest on a plain wooden table beside a cup, with gold morning light across the table.Song in ordinary lifeStops 9–21 · 1 hr 24 minFollow that repair into ordinary choices, and learn why joy gives a person strength for the next mitzvah.
  1. 9The holiness within ordinary lifeHow permitted, ordinary activities can become part of serving Hashem.5 min
  2. 10Work, prayer and the world outsideHow earning a living can remain part of your relationship with Hashem.6 min
  3. 11Marriage, language and the covenantWhy marriage and the use of language belong in the teaching about personal holiness.4 min
  4. 12The same food can lead in different directionsHow the way you eat gives the same food a different purpose, and why joy matters after failure.6 min
  5. 13Regret that helps the next good choiceHow to recognize regret that weakens the next good choice, and give teshuvah its proper time.6 min
  6. 14Finding a way into song and movementHow song and movement can help you begin before you feel ready, while protecting the good that remains.5 min
  7. 15Giving with daasWhy giving needs understanding and limits, and how this connects to the ten chapters.6 min
  8. 16Why a relationship needs a coveringWhat Yosef’s clothing teaches about boundaries that make a relationship possible.10 min
  9. 17Giving the night a directionHow counsel and song can give direction to hours that otherwise slip away.8 min
  10. 18Receiving life and continuing the repairWhy taking the tikkun seriously includes trusting it enough to continue serving Hashem.9 min
  11. 19A daily practice and a particular seasonHow a daily practice of Tehillim relates to the work of Shovavim, and why understanding the words matters.8 min
  12. 20Joy belongs within avodahWhy joy is part of avodah, through the sources and the rav’s picture of people dancing.8 min
  13. 21When the next mitzvah is still possibleHow self-accusation can stop the next mitzvah, and how remembering Hashem’s presence can help.3 min
A wide circle of glowing lanterns on a grassy field at dusk, with one lantern outside the circle and its light reaching toward the others.Bringing the whole person into joyStops 22–28 · 55 minThe next question is how joy can reach the parts of life that still hurt. Learn Rebbe Nachman’s picture of bringing sorrow into the dance.
  1. 22The strength to use what we learnWhy encouragement gives you the strength to use what you have learned after a fall.10 min
  2. 23The value of a small and difficult stepWhy a small good act can matter greatly when the struggle to do it is hard.8 min
  3. 24Making room for the parts that hurtWhat the circle of dancers teaches about bringing painful parts of your own life into teshuvah.10 min
  4. 25Who belongs inside the circle?Why the song at the sea includes the enemy’s pursuit, and how the rav applies this to inner struggle.5 min
  5. 26Asking even the opponent for a blessingHow Rebbe Nachman reads sorrow being drawn into joy, with limits on what can be brought in at each stage.4 min
  6. 27Learning to bring ourselves into joyHow Reb Noson put the teaching into practice on Tu B’Shvat, and why the work extends beyond special days.7 min
  7. 28The ten songs and the life of the whole personRebbe Nachman’s connection between the ten forms of song and a person’s vitality, alongside the place of a broken heart.11 min
A small gold paper kite rises on a long curving string over a quiet hillside into a huge open sky.Making room for playfulnessStops 29–35 · 54 minWhat if you understand the reason for joy but cannot feel it? Learn how clean humor and song can give you a way to begin.
  1. 29Bringing what is outside toward kedushahWhy knowing the value of a mitzvah can still leave you needing a simpler way into joy.8 min
  2. 30A little playfulness can make room for the heartHow permitted playfulness can give the body a part in the joy of serving Hashem.10 min
  3. 31The spark that remains after failureHow a good point that remains after failure can give you strength for the mitzvah in front of you.11 min
  4. 32When even a small joke can helpWhy Reb Noson gives even a small, clean joke a serious place in the work of Tikkun HaKlali.8 min
  5. 33When the reason for joy does not reach meWhat to do when you understand a reason for joy but cannot feel it, through Dovid’s example.5 min
  6. 34Song, laughter and the joy of PurimWhen song can come before the feeling, and how holy joy differs from ridicule.8 min
  7. 35Being happy to belongHow the rav finds joy in belonging to Hashem, including in the ordinary signs of Jewish life.4 min
A table with a white cloth set with round matzah, a silver wine cup and a plate of bitter herbs, with one chair pulled out and waiting.From Purim to the Seder tableStops 36–44 · 1 hr 1 minFollow the same teaching through Purim and Pesach: why the Seder includes both bitterness and freedom, and what that means for return.
  1. 36The path from Purim to PesachWhy the discussion moves from Purim toward Pesach, and how both belong to joy and repair.9 min
  2. 37Matzah, maror and the whole storyWhy matzah recalls both slavery and freedom, and why maror belongs beside it in Korech.7 min
  3. 38Hillel makes room for what seems opposedHow the rav reads Hillel’s approach to understand giving bitterness a place within Pesach’s joy.5 min
  4. 39Freedom that makes room to breatheWhy freedom, a settled mind and the ten forms of song belong in the same discussion.6 min
  5. 40Carrying a song out of EgyptHow Reb Noson connects the repair of Egypt’s exile with song and the life received through food.10 min
  6. 41A mitzvah and a meal received with joyWhy the chance to do a mitzvah is itself a reason for joy, including at an ordinary meal.5 min
  7. 42Return, the past and gratitudeHow teshuvah can change a person’s relationship with the past, with room for gratitude to grow in its own time.7 min
  8. 43Tasting the bitterness and beginning to leaveWhy maror must be tasted, and why leaving a harmful situation can come before deeper repair.5 min
  9. 44Shavuos, thanksgiving and ordinary breadWhy chametz returns at Shavuos, and how thanksgiving carries the teaching into ordinary bread.7 min
A path through a tall dark forest, with a small gold crown resting on a mossy tree stump beside it.The prince and the children in the forestStops 45–55 · 1 hr 19 minRebbe Nachman’s Seven Beggars story returns to the question of beginning again after failure. Learn about asking Hashem for help and taking the next step.
  1. 45The king gives the kingdom to his sonWhat the king tells his son about remaining joyful if he loses the kingdom.7 min
  2. 46Royalty while the throne is missingHow Shlomo and Yosef illustrate belonging to the King while outward signs of greatness are missing.4 min
  3. 47The courage to answer Hashem nowWhy belonging to Hashem calls for effort after failure, through the image of a lost kingdom.8 min
  4. 48Wisdom, simplicity and the good that remainsHow the prince loses his way, and why the good that remains can help him begin again.9 min
  5. 49What to do after the awakeningWhy dwelling on a loss can endanger what remains, through the rav’s story of a hat seller.6 min
  6. 50The beggar teaches us to askWhat the children receiving bread from a beggar teach about asking Hashem for what we need.5 min
  7. 51Ask for home, as well as breadWhy prayer can ask for home and redemption as well as help with today’s needs.14 min
  8. 52Bring the whole sack, and notice the giftsHow to bring your whole life into prayer and notice the help you already receive.7 min
  9. 53Learning to take our own stepsWhy a first taste of closeness can be followed by the work of learning to take your own steps.7 min
  10. 54Seeing and hearing differentlyWhat the blind beggar teaches about seeing beyond appearances and noticing another person.7 min
  11. 55Continuing while a question remainsWhy an unanswered question can remain open, and why it never excuses wrongdoing.5 min