The Piaseczner Rebbe’s words from Tishrei 5693 (Oct 1932) land like they were written this morning. On the Piaseczner's 81st Yahrtzeit, Rav Shlomo Katz opens the Aish Kodesh and the Rebbe’s diary and invites us to a sacred, audacious posture the Piaseczner models so uniquely: holy chutzpa—crying out to Hashem and, when needed, at Hashem—while refusing to sever the relationship.

Through nigun and short, searing teachings, we ask: “What will You do with all these tears?” We learn how to hold protest and trust together, how to daven without going numb, and how to turn Jewish pain into clarified love and courageous gevurah.

When all is said and done, what can strengthen the Jewish heart?

On the 80th yahrzeit of the Piaseczner Rebbe—the Aish Kodesh, HY”D—Rav Shlomo Katz learns his sefarim inside and brings them straight into our moment, days after Oct 7. The Rebbe gives us language for the dance we’re living: crying out to Hashem, and at times at Hashem, while refusing to sever the relationship.

We explore the Piaseczner’s radical guidance to invite Hashem into our pain, to sense His pain with us, and how that awareness can “sweeten judgments” and open a door to revelation.

This shiur also marks the crucial difference between then and now: we are not helpless; Am Yisrael is awake and acting. Rav Shlomo speaks about holy gevurah, teshuvah of clarity, and restoring the Jewish heart without going numb. If you’ve wondered how to daven, protest, and trust all at once, this is a tender, unsparing roadmap from the Rebbe’s words to our reality.

Dedicated to the fallen and wounded of Am Yisrael, HY”D, and to those protecting us in body and spirit. May the Aish Kodesh be a melitz yosher for us all.

“We suffered the toughest hit of our whole generation. We have never been stronger.”

In the raw days after Oct 7, Rav Shlomo gathers the chevra to sing, weep, and find the strength to daven. Through niggunim (including the original “Oran” melody) and living Torah from the Piaseczner Rebbe—the Aish Kodesh, HY”D (may Hashem avenge his blood)—he speaks to the exhaustion, the waves of emotion, and the holy refusal to go numb.

This shiur leans on the Rebbe’s teaching that pain itself can become Torah, and on Tehillim’s promise: “On the day I call, You answer me; You embolden my soul.” We hear why learning gives koach while doom-scrolling drains it; why documenting who we are now will strengthen who we’ll be later; and how Am Yisrael’s awakened heart is restoring courage to the world.

Dedicated to the fallen and the wounded of Am Yisrael, HY”D, and to those protecting us on the front lines. May our tefillah grow stronger, and make us stronger, day after day.