Category Archives: Emuna

How to Utilize Poverty and Suffering

Posted on November 7, 2013 by Emuna Daily

When poverty or other suffering has been decreed on a man, he is wise to utilize the opportunity of gaining the Perfection which is thereby thrust upon him. This then becomes a great good fortune for him: “When a man accepts … Continue reading →

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If it Could, it Would

Posted on October 28, 2013 by Emuna Daily

“Everything a person has is allotted to him by the Ribon Shel Olam.  Don’t think that if something is not going well in a person’s life, it could still be better.  If it could be better, it would be better!” … Continue reading →

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We Don’t Have all the Answers

Posted on October 21, 2013 by Emuna Daily

Hashem tells us through the prophet, לא מחשבותי מחשבותיכם – the human mind is not capable of understanding His ways in this world.  Part of being a Jew is knowing that we do not have to know the answers to … Continue reading →

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It is not up to you

Posted on October 15, 2013 by Emuna Daily

It should be clear to a person that all created things in this world, whether substance or accident, have definite limits.  Nothing can add to, or detract from, what the Creator, may He be exalted, decreed in regard to its … Continue reading →

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Too Hidden and Deep

Posted on October 7, 2013 by Emuna Daily

The Creator’s ways of judgment are too hidden, deep, and exalted for us to arrive at knowledge of their particulars, certainly not of their general principles.  As it says in Scripture: “For as the heavens are higher than the earth, … Continue reading →

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Fate

Posted on September 11, 2013 by Emuna Daily

Az es bashert ainem dertrunken tsu verren, vert er dertrunken in a leffel vasser. – If one is fated to drown, he will drown in a spoonful of water.

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Hashem, Fulfill Our Requests for the Good

Posted on September 3, 2013 by Emuna Daily

Rabbi Avraham Pam related the following: There was a Jew who, in spite of having lived his entire life in dire poverty, remained steadfast in his faith, and prayed with intense concentration.  Someone once overheard this man reciting the morning … Continue reading →

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Like an Operation

Posted on August 29, 2013 by Emuna Daily

The Sage, Nachum Ish Gamzu (the teacher of Rabbi Akiva) is famous in the Talmud as the leading exponent of this insight.  His invariable reaction to whatever befell him, even to seeming disaster, was: gam zu le-tovah – “this too … Continue reading →

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Not a Penny more

Posted on August 19, 2013 by Emuna Daily

“No matter how much effort is exerted, no-one can earn one cent more than G-d has ordained that he – this particular person – shall earn. One must do what is necessary, but one must remember that all his work is … Continue reading →

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Classic Joke

Posted on August 9, 2013 by Emuna Daily

A man was driving down the street, and he had an important meeting and couldn’t find a parking space.   After circling around for a long time, he finally looked up towards the Heaven and said, “Hashem, have pity on me. … Continue reading →

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