Emuna Daily

Love cannot be taught. All we can hope for is that we should unlearn all the hatred. Because hatred it taught. Love is from Heaven. ~ R’ Shlomo Carlebach zt”l

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Today, Friday, August 16th Tu B’Av, in just a short time from now, @10:00am, New York Time – Join over 500,000 Jews from across the world uniting in prayer together in merit that all singles in Klal Yisrael merit finding their shidduch.

Tehillim to be recited by participants at exactly 10 AM EST:
32, 38, 70, 82, 121, 124, 127, 128
ל”ב, ל”ח, ע’, פ”ב, קכ”א, קכ”ד, קכ”ז, קכ”ח

http://bit.ly/TuBAVTogether

Let us not attribute to the evil eye what should be attributed to the evil I.  ~ R’ Shraga Silverstein zt”l

Before I pray, I pray that I should pray during my prayers. ~ The Divrei Chaim of Sanz

Hashem gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today.  Have you used one to say thank you?

When you thank Hashem for small things in life, He will send you plenty of BIG things to thank Him for!

The Vilna Gaon asks: Is hatred ever for nothing? Isn’t there always a reason for hatred?  Someone embarrassed him, harmed him, or did something else to anger him, so why is it called sinas chinam?

The answer is, whatever occurred, it was destined.  Nothing happened without Hashem’s decree.

So there is never a valid excuse for hatred. ~ R’ Elimelech Biderman Shlita

Be somebody who makes everybody feel like a somebody. – Meir Kay

People search for segulos (supernatural remedies) and ask Torah leaders for their blessing for a comfortable livelihood….  If they would ask my advice, I would tell them to be extremely careful not to speak lashon hara, steal, deceive or harm others. Then they would receive the blessing, “Blessed is he who does not strike his fellow in secret,” to which the entire Jewish people answered “Amen.” This blessing will surely be fulfilled. ~ Chofetz Chaim in Shemiras HaLashon II, Ch. 9.

The Chofetz Chaim explains that humans communicate with speech or by  sending letters, but Hashem can send a thought or desire into a person’s heart, and thereby communicate His will.

A person often doesn’t know that Hashem planted the thought in his mind; he thinks it was his own idea. But really it was Hashem speaking to him. ~ R’ Elimelech Biderman Shlita

A year from now, you will wish you had started today.