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Overcoming negative character traits is the essence and purpose of life.  Therefore you need to continuously strengthen yourself.  If you do not work on overcoming your faults, what is the purpose of your life?  ~ The Vilna Gaon

When you clarify your real needs to keep alive, you will see that minimum requirements for food and lodging are relatively inexpensive.  Hence when you worry about financial problems you are usually worrying about what can be defined as luxuries. … Continue reading →

I agree with Harry Potter’s Professor Dumbledore that it is the decisions we make, rather than the intellectual gifts with which we are endowed, that are ultimately the measure of the human being and the life that one lives.  ~ … Continue reading →

Everybody likes it when God does miracles for him. The question is, do you understand that you are a miracle, that your life is all miracles, that everything is a miracle? If you’re living on the level where miracles are … Continue reading →

No city in the world, not even Athens or Rome, ever played as great a role in the life of a nation for so long a time, as Jerusalem has done in the life of the Jewish people. ~ David … Continue reading →

Lag Ba’Omer marks the passing of the great sage, R’ Shimon Bar Yochai who taught that three people who eat together at a table and share words of Torah, it’s as if they ate at God’s table. If you happen … Continue reading →

Why was the Torah given in the desert? For if it were given in the Land of Israel, the residents of the Land of Israel would say, “It is ours”; and if it were given in some other place, the … Continue reading →

If we held a moment of silence for every victim of the holocaust, we would be silent for eleven and a half years.