Category Archives: Mussar

Where Your Life Really Is

Posted on July 31, 2017 by Emuna Daily

The past is only memories. The future is but illusory hopes. Focus on the present. For that is where you your life really is. And it consists only of tests.  ~ Michtav MaiEliyahu

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Physical Pleasures

Posted on July 28, 2017 by Emuna Daily

Physical pleasures, more than they nourish the heart, they nourish the eye of one’s fellow. ~ The Kotzker Rebbe

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Repeating Inspirational Aphorisms

Posted on July 25, 2017 by Emuna Daily

R’ Yisroel Salanter stressed the importance of memorizing inspirational aphorisms and passages and repeating them constantly.  Little by little they will have a positive effect on your personality and emotions. ~ Tnuas Hamussar as quoted by R’ Zelig Pliskin

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“I Can’t Get No Satisfaction”

Posted on July 24, 2017 by Emuna Daily

One who worries about the future will never find satisfaction. When the future becomes the present, he will worry about a later future. ~ Madraigos Haadam: darkai habitachon

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Regardless of Wealth

Posted on July 20, 2017 by Emuna Daily

We should show honor and respect to every person we meet regardless of whether they are wealthy or poor. The only difference between a wealthy person and the poor person is the amount of money they have.  Both are created … Continue reading →

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Grow Each Day

Posted on July 13, 2017 by Emuna Daily

Don’t live the same year 85 times and expect to call it a life.

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Much More Beneficial!

Posted on July 12, 2017 by Emuna Daily

It is easy to condemn others. It is not as easy to assist them to improve, but much more beneficial. ~ R’ Zelig Pliskin

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The Blink of an Eye

Posted on July 11, 2017 by Emuna Daily

There is an old saying: The past is no more, the future is not yet, and the present is as fleeting as the blink of an eye. ~ Chochmah Umussar

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I Do Not Know

Posted on July 4, 2017 by Emuna Daily

Many times Rashi writes in his interpretation: “I do not know what this teaches us.”  Would it not have been preferable for him to have written nothing?  We learn from this, if you do not know the meaning of something … Continue reading →

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Idolatry

Posted on June 28, 2017 by Emuna Daily

The Torah’s prohibitions of making statues and bowing down to them additionally apply in contemporary terms, expressed today through submission to the forces that one perceives as controlling one’s sustenance, be it one’s employers, the larger system of powers that … Continue reading →

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