Category Archives: Humility

Talking about Your Successes

Posted on June 20, 2017 by Emuna Daily

Be careful not to tell others about your successes when this would imply that the person you are talking to is inferior to you.  This could easily create negative feelings in the other person, and arguments and quarrels might ensue.  … Continue reading →

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Always be Right

Posted on May 3, 2017 by Emuna Daily

As I was once putting my children to sleep, my six-year-old daughter remarked aloud to the other kids, “Abba is always right, because even when he’s wrong, he knows he’s wrong, and so he’s still right.” We can live our … Continue reading →

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In the Face of Controversy

Posted on April 5, 2017 by Emuna Daily

“He hangs the earth on nothing” (Job 26:7).  Rabbi Iylah said, “The world exists only in the merit of people who make themselves nothing in the face of controversy.” ~ Chulin 99a

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Zing

Posted on March 8, 2017 by Emuna Daily

Don’t be humble.  You’re not that great.  ~ Golda Meir

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Anger

Posted on January 11, 2017 by Emuna Daily

When a person gets angry, he brings harsh judgments upon himself. ~ R’ Nachman of Breslov zt”l

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Forget it

Posted on November 8, 2016 by Emuna Daily

A good deed is best remembered in Heaven when it is forgotten by the man who performed it. ~ R’ Yisrael of Rizhin zt”l

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Partners

Posted on November 24, 2015 by Emuna Daily

Know that calmness and humility are partners, just as their opposites, anger and pride, are partners. Generally, what stirs anger is inward pride, while what causes calmness is inward humility. ~ R’ Avraham Ben HaRambam

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Envious Wives

Posted on August 6, 2015 by Emuna Daily

Envious wives will ruin their husbands ~ Vayikra Rabbah

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Essentials

Posted on July 22, 2015 by Emuna Daily

If people would only be satisfied with essentials and if they’d only try to improve everyone else’s wellbeing and share in their common concerns, they’d conquer the world and have more than they ever wanted. ~ R’ Bahya Ibn Paquda … Continue reading →

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Ego

Posted on July 15, 2015 by Emuna Daily

If a person worships himself, it is as if he worships idolatry.  For what difference is there if a person worships another or himself? ~ The Kotzker Rebbe

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