Category Archives: Spirituality

A Miracle

A blade of grass is a miracle, it’s more complicated than a skyscraper. Imagine a skyscraper would grow in your backyard; a blade of grass makes a skyscraper into nothing, it’s so complicated. A skyscraper can’t grow. This can grow … Continue reading

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Alacrity

Alacrity is not only in the feet, but also – and perhaps mainly – in the mind. ~ R’ Avraham Grodzinsky zt”l

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Darkness

Darkness is not chased away with sticks, not even with cannons.  One simply lights a small candle, and the darkness flees before it. ~ The Chofetz Chaim

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GPS

When you get lost, the GPS doesn’t tell you  to go back to your starting point, rather it recalculates and fixes your route via  satellite from above…so too in life, when you get lost, trust the Torah map from above to get right back on track! … Continue reading

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Only Human?

Every human being is due honor and respect just by virtue of being human, which means embodying a divine soul, made in the image and likeness of God.  Because we are only human, we are scarred and marred, but those … Continue reading

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The way to know if HaShem loves you

HaShem expresses His love for an individual Jew not by material gain, for there exists the concept of “rasha vetov lo’ – an evildoer who enjoys a good life. But rather by presenting to a person the opportunity to perform … Continue reading

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“But I daven better at home”

With regard to one who tries to justify davening at home without a minyan because he claims he can concentrate better… “That is a mistake…One of the many reasons it is important for men to pray in a synagogue with … Continue reading

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Tied to the Past

A Jew who is not tied to the past has no hope of being connected to the future. ~ R’ Elazar Shach zt”l as quoted by R’ Paysach Krohn

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Your Immutable and Perpetual Companion

All people you will meet in your lifetime will at some time enter into your life and exit it, and you will enter into their lives and leave. Parents, spouse, children and friends each one in turn will enter and … Continue reading

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Shines as it melts

A candle’s light shines as its wax melts. So too, a person’s light shines as he overcomes the desires of his body.

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