Author Archives: Emuna Daily

We have learned before that when someone speaks Lashon Hara about you, all of your sins are transferred to the speaker and all of his mitzvos are transferred to you.  Quite the exchange! However, halachah teaches that if someone asks … Continue reading →

When a person is in doubt whether something he is doing is good or bad, there is one way he can test this: if he will regret his action, then it is the wrong thing to do. For a person … Continue reading →

It has been a while since we played this game.  This quote, which appears at the end of a certain prayer, made an impression on me recently: “Accept our entreaty and hear our cry, O Knower of mysteries.”  Feel free … Continue reading →

During the war, our people were indiscriminately hated, simply for being Jewish. After the war, we must respond by indiscriminately loving all Jews, simply for being Jewish. ~ The Bluzhover Rebbe

When we look forward to a certain day, we count down the days until that day arrives.  The Sefer HaChinuch famously asks why when it comes to Sefiras Ha’omer and the giving of the Torah, why we count the days … Continue reading →

Stop asking for things to go back to normal!  Ask Hakadosh Baruch Hu for Moshiach to come!  Ask for no more plagues, no more tzarus, no more wars, no more poverty.  Ask for the good times of Moshiach to come. … Continue reading →

It is said in the name of R’ Elimelech of Lizensk, zt”l that the most ideal time to attain emuna sheleima is tonight, the 7th night of Pesach.  In fact, the Beis Aharon zt”l said that “the six days of … Continue reading →

The blood on the doorways didn’t prevent the plague from entering their home.  Rather…whoever believed and trusted Hakadosh Baruch Hu, and wasn’t afraid of Pharaoh and his decrees, and he publicly sacrificed the Egyptian god…he is a tzaddik.  He trusted … Continue reading →

When Am Yisrael stood at the foot of the Yam Suf, Hashem commanded us to start traveling, even before He commanded Moshe Rabbeinu to split it.  The commentators explain that we had to go so far out into the sea … Continue reading →

According to the degree one strengthens himself that the matters that distress him shouldn’t distress him and shouldn’t confuse him, so will Hashem remove this distress from him. ~ Reb Moshe Betzalel zt’l in the name of his father, the … Continue reading →