When we eat matzah, we recline. Then we eat the maror, and we don’t recline. And then we eat matzah and maror sandwiched together, and we recline. Why do we recline? Although there’s matzah, there’s maror there too.
The answer is, when the maror is wrapped with matzah, which is “food of emunah,” he realizes that even the bitter times are for his good. He can now recline for the maror as well. ~ R’ Elimelech Biderman Shlita
If you have problems, see if some flaw in yourself might be responsible. If you find no flaw – you are flawed. ~ The Kotzker Rebbe zt”l
The evil design of the yetzer hara is to make a person think that he has transgressed greatly, when in truth, he really has not. Thus, when a person is discouraged because of negative behavior and actions, his depression prevents him from performing mitzvos and good deeds. ~ The Maggid of Mezeritch
It is impossible to honor one’s parents as much as one should. ~ Rashi in Kiddushin 31.
You cannot do a kindness too soon because you never know how soon it will be before it’s too late. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
I am I and you are you, but if you try to be like me, there is no you, and if I try to be like you, there is no me. ~ The Kotzker Rebbe zt”L
If someone transgressed by speaking loshon hora or r’chilus, the antidote is for him to consistently speak words of Torah. ~ Vilna Gaon zt”l
On chol hamoed sukkos Twenty Two years ago there was a women in an a coma in a hospital in Toronto. The doctors called in the family and said she had just hours left. Her daughter who lives in Lakewood told this to her husband who then called the Skulener Rebbe. The Rebbetzin answered and the situation was relayed to the Rebbe, who was in the Sukkah. The Rebbetzin returned to the phone and said the Rebbe’s reply was that the woman should shake lulav and esrog that Yom tov. The reply was perplexing as she was in a coma but the family left a left a lulav and esrog by her bed. The woman came out of her coma up on Hoshana Raba and shook Lulav & Esrog.
This woman passed away on Monday, hours after the Rebbe was Niftrar. 22 year later.
Before you speak, you are the master of your words. After you speak, your words become your master. ~ Orchos Tzadikim ch. 21
Every man can attain the highest level. It depends on nothing but your own free choice. ~ R’ Nachman of Breslov zt”l
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