Emuna Daily

Awe inspired by God’s magnitude, exaltedness, and awesome power never leaves a person or parts from him all the days of his life.

It is the gateway to pure love and intense yearning. ~ R’ Bachya Ibn Paquda zt”l

We humans have a tendency to always want more.  Therefore it is easy to forget to feel grateful and happy with what we already have.

We should strive to feel a joy that is complete. Lack of joy with what we have is destructive both physically and spiritually. ~ R’ Mordechai Gifter zt”l

The Beis Avraham zt’l would tell those who needed a shidduch, parnassah, or a refuah to say the entire Tehillim on Shevi’i shel Pesach, because it’s a day of salvations.

The Beis Aharon zt’l (p.93:) writes, “The six days [of Pesach] are a preparation for

the seventh day, for the primary day is the seventh day of Pesach, since that is

perfection, the day they said shirah.” Rebbe Mendel of Riminov zt’l said, “I

heard from a gadol, a student of Rebbe Elimelech of Lizensk zy’a, who repeated

in the name of his Rebbe that the time most mesugal for attaining emunah is the

night of Shevi’i shel Pesach.

True belief means giving oneself over to God, trusting in Him totally and never doubting Him, no matter what the circumstances.  This is the concept of faith – to cling to Him completely and unequivocally.  Such attachment brings a person to complete wholeness. ~ Maharal of Prague

Truth is one of the very foundations upon which the world stands.  As this is so, when you speak falsely it is as if you are nudging at the world’s foundation.  ~ Ramchal

Every home uses more or less the same type of matzos, as they are all made from the same recipe – flour and water and nothing else. When it comes to challah, every home uses a different recipe. Some use sweet challos, some eat egg challos, and so on. This suggests that on Pesach, everyone is the same: resha’im, tzaddikim, people of high levels, people of low levels, they are all equal in the sense that they can all gain from the Seder. ~ R’ Elimlech Biderman Shlita

Be stringent [to be clean from chametz on Pesach] with all their laws and details, and whoever spends a lot of time with these matters, he will be granted long life. ~ The Shaalos v’Teshuvos min HaShamayim (71)

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