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Filling Your Head with Torah

You have to learn seforim that enlighten your mind. It’s of utmost importance to learn seforim like Mesillas Yeshorim. You must learn the Rambam Hilchos Dei’os and Hilchos Teshuva, Sha’arei Teshuva d’Rabbeinu Yonah and Chovos Ha’levovos. Seforim like that put so … Continue reading

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Always Connected

A Jew is connected with Hashem, not only while he Davens or engages in a mitzvah,  but during every moment of his life.  The moment he opens his eyes in the morning and recites Modeh Ani, he declares that he is aware that he is in Hashem’s presence. … Continue reading

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Menorah on Your Face

Every person has an image of a beautiful menorah on his face. If we draw imaginary lines between a person’s two ears, two eyes, two nostrils and mouth in the middle, we have a beautiful drawing of a menorah with … Continue reading

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Live Comfortably

The Tikkunei Zohar states that lashon hara can reduce one to poverty, chas v’shalom. Therefore, if a person wishes to live comfortably, he should guard himself from speaking or accepting lashon hara. ~ Shmiras Halashon

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מי כעמך ישראל

“You didn’t shampoo your hair so we can’t operate!” This shocking statement was made by a nurse to the wife of the head of a Day School in Minneapolis who had not been given instructions on how to prepare herself … Continue reading

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Want to Want

A Bachur came for an acceptance interview to Yeshiva Shor Yoshuv. The Rosh Yeshiva Harav Shlomo Freifeld asked him “Do you want to learn?” “No” replied the boy “but I want to want to learn.” Rav Shlomo loved the answer and warmly accepted the boy , who today is … Continue reading

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Complete Teshuvah

At what point does a person attain complete teshuvah? When a person is faced with the same situation in which he originally sinned, with the ability and desire to repeat the sin, yet refrains from sinning on account of his teshuvah – this … Continue reading

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A Student and Child

When a Jew studies Torah he is as a student before G‑d, his teacher, Whose wisdom he is studying. When a Jew prays, he is as a child before his father. ~ R’ Yosef Yitzchak Schneerson zt”l

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Excuses are What You Find for the Other Guy

As thinking human beings, we have an unlimited capacity to find excuses, to discover ingenious and innovative ways to distance the perpetrator from the act. We can blame it on youth, on old age, on parents, on children, on financial … Continue reading

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Seize the Moment

If you have an impulse to do teshuvah, don’t dismiss it.  That impulse is a message from Hashem Yisbarach.  Surely no one would disregard a message that comes directly from the King of kings.  Can there be a greater contempt of G-d … Continue reading

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