When I was 17 years old, my parents and my uncle, the Chazon Ish, worked very hard to find a shidduch for me. Yet, shidduch after shidduch did not come to be…. Now, consider this. When the search for my zivug began, my future wife Batsheva, was not yet bas mitzvah! She was certainly not ready to begin shidduchim. But since she was my “bashert,” Hashem caused those who were suggested for me to not want to proceed…”
~ R’ Chaim Kanievsky zt”l
One who does not waste time will find time for everything. ~ R’ Chaim Yosef Dovid Azulai zt”l
Struggle is not the opposite of growth, it is part of growth. ~ R’ Yitzchok Hutner zt”l
People’s personalities are varied. You must find your own path in Avodas Hashem, through becoming aware of how you can apply your unique personality and character to excel in a life of Torah & Mitzvos. ~ Tiferes Shlomo of Radomsk
There is only the One Above and you below. Everything else is just connections. ~ Chabad.org
Spiritual failures serve the purpose of compelling us to ever greater levels of resolve and commitment to avodas Hashem.” ~ R’ Ephraim of Sudlikov
There are no good times and bad times; there are only happy times when a Jew chooses to be b’simcha, and sad times when we don’t see that everything happens for a reason. All that we experience in our lives is the same will of Hashem — it just depends on how we receive it. ~ Baal Shem Tov
Anything that is important enough for you to do is important enough for you to do better. ~ R’ Yisroel Reisman Shlita
“If a person wants to please everyone, he will end up pleasing no one.”
The Midrash calls the monarchy of Achashvairosh “a monarchy based on flattery.” At first, to meet the demands of his close advisors, the king executed his wife, Vashti. Then, to satisfy the demands of others who felt that this was wrong, King Achashvairosh killed his previous advisers. This is a powerful lesson in the negative consequences of faulty character traits. ~ R’ Yeruchem Levovitz zt”l
A very special moment of Yom Kippur is when we say Keser (in Kedusha).
What a Yid can accomplish by the Keser on Yom Kippur, can be achieved throughout the entire day of Purim!
~ The Arizal
In addition to davening in shul, set aside some time over Purim to be alone and to ask Hashem for anything and everything!
