FAQ

Click the round play button on any row. The player opens at the bottom of the screen and keeps playing as you move between pages.

Yes — the player floats and continues across the whole site. You can also minimize it to the top bar.

The 15-second buttons in the player, or click and drag on the timeline.

Yes — the speed button in the player cycles between speeds.

Yes — pick a time in the player and playback stops by itself when it ends.

Yes — every shiur is saved with its stopping point, and you continue exactly from there.

Personal progress tracking: which shiurim you have already heard, and what percentage of each folder or rav.

The 'Play all' button at the top of the list. You can also add individual shiurim to the queue and build your own sequence.

Refreshing the page almost always solves it. If it persists — write to us via the contact page.

The download button on the row or on the shiur page — the file is saved to your device. You can also mark several shiurim in selection mode and download them all at once.

Audio shiurim are mostly MP3; there are also PDF documents that open for viewing right on the site.

The size and duration are shown on every shiur row.

Yes — enter selection mode, mark the shiurim you want (or all of them) and download together.

The search field in the top bar, or the Ctrl+K shortcut. Search for a rav, series, folder or shiur name.

Search filters: 'Exact' finds only the phrase as-is; 'Paths' also searches the folder names along the way.

Hides results you have already heard in full — only the ones new to you remain.

The 'Rabbis' page — typing in the filter field shows results instantly; every rav has a page with his recently-added shiurim and all his folders.

The gateways of the Otzar by language: Hebrew, Yiddish, niggunim and Torah Hazmanis.

The 'New at the Otzar' page — everything added, grouped by week and month. Updated all the time — sometimes several times a day.

No. Everything is open without registration. Signing in (with a Google account) is only for syncing your saved items and playlists between devices.

Your saved shiurim, playlists, followed rabbis, and listening history.

The follow button on the rav page. When a new shiur of his is added — you get a notification in the bell at the top bar.

The star on every row. The list waits in 'My Saved'.

The '+' button on the shiur row — add to an existing list or start a new one.

On your device. If you signed in — it syncs between devices, and you can manage it on the history page.

Hebrew, Yiddish and English — both the interface and the shiurim themselves.

The globe selector in the top bar. Your choice is remembered.

Yes — 'content adaptation' shows only the shiur languages you chose, across the whole site.

Visitors from abroad whose browser is not in Hebrew get Yiddish by default. Switch to Hebrew (or English) in the selector — the choice is remembered.

The 'Send a shiur' page: fill in the details and upload the files right from the browser.

Every submission is reviewed under the supervision of Breslov rabbanim, and published after approval.

The allowed file types and sizes are shown on the send form itself.

Contact us with a link to the shiur — we will check and correct it with the archive.

Certainly — write to us via the contact page and tell us what you are missing; we will try to locate the recordings and add them.

No. The Otzar runs free of charge, l'zikui harabbim.

The site was established by avreichim of anash in the USA to spread the wellsprings of Rabbeinu HaKadosh, the Nachal Novea Mekor Chochma, to all who thirst for the word of Hashem.

As the rabbanim's clarification on the site states: the site grants no legitimacy whatsoever to internet use, and is meant for those already online — so they may find there all Breslov shiurim in a good and clean way.

Yes — the site meets accessibility standards (WCAG 2.2 and Israeli Standard 5568), including an automatic dark mode for users with accessibility settings. The full statement and contact options are on the accessibility page.