Monthly Archives: April 2021

Don’t wait until you are free to learn, for your special task in life may be to learn while under stress and pressure.  If you wait until the pressures subside, you may wait forever. ~ R’ Mendel of Kotzk zt”l

You don’t need to be perfect to inspire others.  Let people get inspired by how you deal with your imperfections.

If only I could go back in time to Auschwitz and whisper in my grandfather’s ear that his descendants would be in Israel today…

Stress makes you believe that everything has to happen right now.  Emuna reassures you that everything will happen when Hashem wants it to happen. 

Rabbi Tarfon says: The day is short, the task is abundant, the laborers are lazy, the reward is great, and the Master of the house is insistent. ~ Pirkei Avos 2:20

The Brisker Rav asked his son each Shabbos whether he wanted an apple or a pear.  When he asked for a pear, his father gave him an apple.  And each week, he would give him the opposite of what he … Continue reading →

For evil to flourish, it only requires good men to do nothing.  ~ Simon Wiesenthal

When you see the image of God in another human being, God reveals His image within you. ~ The Lubavitcher Rebbe zt”l

I met a teenager, a young man who is growing close to Torah life. “Rabbi,” he asked me, “how can we be expected to be able to watch where we look, to guard our eyes in public…are we angels? That … Continue reading →

Only the Creator of the world knows your path, only Him.  So try and trust Him and Thank Him. ~ R’ Shalom Arush