Emuna Daily

There are days when Hakadosh Baruch Hu bestows His goodness to His nation, Yisrael, and reveals His love to them. The most mesugal day for this is Pesach. ~ The Kedushas Levi

The Ahavas Shalom zt’l teaches that people lack parnassah because they pray to Hashem for parnassah on Rosh Hashanah, but they don’t realize that they need to pray to Hashem on Pesach and Shavuos as well.

The passuk in Vayikra 6:0 states “Eat matzah in a holy place.”

What is that holy place?

The Tiferes Shlomo answers that it is the mouth. 

One should make his mouth a holy place, fitting to eat the matzah. We do so by undertaking to refrain from speaking lashon hara and other forms of forbidden speech, and by not consuming non-kosher foods.

When we burn the chametz, it’s a very special time. Chametz represents the yetzer hara and sins, so when the chametz is burning, the world is being cleansed from these impurities, and the tefillos we say at this time are answered. ~ R’ Elimelech Biderman Shlita

“Whoever says the…Haggadah with happiness, without any anger, without laziness, and without feeling that it’s a chore, chas veshalom…the Shechinah spreads out its wings on him to save him in all places and in all travels, and he merits miracles…” ~ The Yesod Yosef (85)

The Rema (Darkei Moshe) writes that when we tell the story of yetzias Mitzrayim at the Seder, it is like a tefillah, because we are praising Hashem. He says that this is the reason we wash our hands for Urchatz, because “just like we wash our hands before we daven” we also wash our hands before we say Hashem’s praises, which is a form of tefillah.

I once heard a beautiful line, which so accurately depicts the night of the Seder. “The world tells their children stories to put them to sleep; Jews tell their children stories to wake them up.”

~ R’ Daniel Staum

Sometimes we believe, but it is without clarity, without certainty. The month of Nissan, and especially during Pesach, and even more so, at the Seder, we should be thinking and talking about emunah, because these are days when we have a greater potential for attaining clarity in emunah.

~ R’ Elimelech Biderman Shlita

Each one of us is a neshamah, a soul, placed in a body.

That body, with the neshamah, was born to this man and woman, at this time, in this place, with a specific role, one that will take a precise amount of years, days, hours, minutes, and seconds.

What a shame it is that some of us don’t show up for our own lives.

Stop focusing on Hashem’s domain – how we would like things to be – and start focusing on your own domain, doing what you’re meant to do.

Let Hashem be Hashem and you be you.

In the powerlessness comes power, when we admit that we’re not in control of the world, but we are in control of our own lives, and we’re here to make the right choices.

That’s what it means to show up for your own life.

R’ Shais Taub

Dovid HaMelech was a great Rebbe. His counsel for hatzlachah was to study Torah.  As it says in Tehillim 1, “He only desires Hashem’s Torah…whatever he does, will succeed…” 

This isn’t solely a brachah, it’s a guarantee!

If you study Torah, you will succeed in everything you do.

~ R’ Yochanan Twersky of Rachmastrivka