Emuna Daily

When someone suffers trials and tribulations in searching for a mate, the 3rd partner (Hashem) is in pain as well. ~ R’ Shimshon Pincus zt”l

The most transformative moments in your life happen when somebody else believes in you more than you believe in yourself. – Lubavitcher Rebbe

What a great wonder that we should be able to draw so near to God in prayer.  How many walls there are between man and God!  Even though God fills all the world, He is so very hidden!

Yet a single word of prayer can topple all the walls and bring you close to God.  ~ Based on the Chasidic Masters from the book, Your Word is Fire

The patient person is exactly like someone who is carrying a heavy package.  Even though it weighs upon him, he continues to go on his way, and doesn’t take a break from carrying it.  The same is true in all relationships that are between people: we see and hear many things that aren’t according to our will, and still we continue to be good friends. ~ R’ Shlomo Wolbe zt”l

One shouldn’t be stingy with kind words. Words don’t cost money, and they do so much to encourage a fellow man. ~ R’ Elimelech Biderman, Shlita

Just as one is punished for speaking bad words, so is one punished for the good words he could have said but refrained from saying them. ~ Zohar

Be alert, and be brief, even when you pray. ~ The Kotzker Rebbe zt”l

“It states (Tehillim 145:18) קָרוֹב יְהוָה, לְכָל-קֹרְאָיו לְכֹל אֲשֶׁר יִקְרָאֻהוּ בֶאֱמֶת, ‘Hashem is close to those who pray to Him with truth.’ What does it mean, to pray to Hashem with truth? When one knows there’s nowhere to turn other than to Hashem, that is a true prayer. Then
קָרוֹב יְהוָה, Hashem is close and He listens to your tefillos…”

The Leshem told this to his daughter who was crying after being told by doctors that she cannot have children.  A year later she gave birth to a baby who one day would become the gadol haDor, R’ Eliyashiv zt”l.

Now, O Israel, what does God, your God, demand of you?  Only to fear God, your God, to follow all His ways, to love Him, to serve God, your God, with all your heart and with all your soul. ~ Moshe Rabeinu (Eikev 10:12)

The life of a person with emunah will be a life of joy even in situations when others feel sad. ~ R’ Eliezer Zev Luft zt”l