What is the Purpose of Your Life?

Posted on June 19, 2017 by Emuna Daily

Overcoming negative character traits is the essence and purpose of life.  Therefore you need to continuously strengthen yourself.  If you do not work on overcoming your faults, what is the purpose of your life?  ~ The Vilna Gaon

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Mid-Sentence

Posted on June 18, 2017 by Emuna Daily

If one began to speak and realizes that by concluding his point, he will speak loshon hara, he must stop in mid-sentence and change the subject. ~ Chofetz Chaim

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The Shining Sun

Posted on June 17, 2017 by Emuna Daily

Rabbi Moshe Rosenstein related that Rabbi Yisroel Salanter often expressed his feelings of great joy on the benefit he has from the shining sun which helps mankind in so many ways. Rabbi Rosenstein would ask why don’t other people also feel the same joy as Rabbi Salanter? The main reason is that people feel happier when they have something others are missing. When everyone else in the world has the same thing, they do not feel they have anything special. Rabbi Salanter felt great love for other people. Therefore, the fact that others also benefited increased his pleasure. Just as a person feels more pleasure when his children also have pleasure, so too, one who sincerely loves other people feels increased pleasure when others also benefit. ~ R’ Zelig Pliskin

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A Cure

Posted on June 16, 2017 by Emuna Daily

A person who has mastered being in a joyous state will be able to cure himself of disease.  Even though he might become ill, his joy will heal him.  But sadness is such a heavy burden, who can carry it?  ~ The Vilna Gaon zt”l

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Poison

Posted on June 15, 2017 by Emuna Daily

Anger is a deadly poison not only for the soul, but even for the body.  We should flee from anger as we would from the worst torture. ~ R’ Yeruchem Levovitz zt”l

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Minimum Requirements

Posted on June 14, 2017 by Emuna Daily

When you clarify your real needs to keep alive, you will see that minimum requirements for food and lodging are relatively inexpensive.  Hence when you worry about financial problems you are usually worrying about what can be defined as luxuries. ~ Michtav MaiEliyahu

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Many Other Ways

Posted on June 13, 2017 by Emuna Daily

If you are not able to obtain the money you want in the manner you originally expected, the Almighty has many other ways and means by which you can acquire that money. ~ Chovos Halvovos

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Prof. Dumbledore

Posted on June 12, 2017 by Emuna Daily

I agree with Harry Potter’s Professor Dumbledore that it is the decisions we make, rather than the intellectual gifts with which we are endowed, that are ultimately the measure of the human being and the life that one lives.  ~ R’ Shlomo Riskin

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A Spiritual Force

Posted on June 11, 2017 by Emuna Daily

Man’s power of speech is a spiritual force and it has great effect in the higher spheres.  Consequently, the damage wrought by improper speech in the higher worlds is severe and awesome.  And the greater the damage, the greater is the punishment. ~ Chafetz Chaim

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The Lottery Ticket and the Chofetz Chaim

Posted on June 10, 2017 by Emuna Daily

A man once said to the Chofetz Chaim, “Rabbi, I have just bought a lottery ticket.  The winner of the lottery will receive a very large amount of money.  Could I please have a blessing from you that I will win, since the money I acquire will enable me to study Torah with peace of mind.”

The Chofetz Chaim gently blessed him, “May the Almighty help you study Torah with peace of mind.”

The man was disappointed the Chofetz Chaim did not bless him he would win.  It occurred to him that perhaps the Chofetz Chaim did not hear exactly what he had requested, so he repeated once more he would like a blessing he should win the lottery, this time in a louder voice.  Very calmly, the Chofetz Chaim reiterated the same blessing, word for word as before.  ~ Hachofetz Chayim as quoted by R’ Zelig Pliskin

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