Emuna Daily

We are not physical beings living a spiritual life.  We are spiritual beings living a physical life.  We do not have souls, we are souls!  ~ Mrs. Miriam Swerdlov citing the Alter Rebbe

All this talk about the good old days is the work of the yetzer hara.  He wants people to speak like this to make us suffer and worry all the more about our livelihoods.  He would like to make us feel that there is no hope at all now, heaven forbid.

This is all false.  God continuously sustains the world and people rise and fall in every age.  If you look carefully at the past, you will find that it also contained much poverty and suffering.

The opposite is true.  God now directs the world better than ever.  ~ R’ Nachman of Breslov zt”l

At least once every day, try to feel the joy of being alive.  Appreciate the gift of life.  All who have already died can no longer elevate themselves, but you are still alive and can continue to grow spiritually. ~ Chinuch V’edum Hahergeshim

I would rather stand with God and be judged by the world than stand with the world and be judged by God.

R’ Moshe Cordovero zt”l (the Ramak) was given a special segulah directly from Eliyahu Hanavi, that when one wants to get rid of impure thoughts, he should say the following verse several times until they are gone:

Aish tamid tukad al hamizbayach; lo tichbeh

An eternal fire shall remain burning on the altar; it may not be extinguished. (Leviticus 6:6)

The idea is that each one of us is a miniature Beis Hamikdash, a dwelling place for Hashem’s Shechinah, within which a flame burns eternally and therefore foreign fires such as impure thoughts must be kept out.