Emuna Daily

Hashem is not asking you to stop crying.  

He’s just wondering if you would let Him hold you while you do. 

~ Esther Weinstein

Emuna doesn’t mean life will always make sense; it means trusting that Hashem is holding you even when it doesn’t.

~ Based on R’ Nachman of Breslov zt”l

Failing is not failure; not getting up is failure.

~ R’ Zecharia Wallerstein zt”l

“The reward of a mitzvah is the mitzvah itself.” ~ Pirkei Avot 4:2

The Rambam explains:

The ultimate reward for a mitzvah is the bond it creates between you and Hashem.

The most powerful time to attain complete Emuna 

and to strengthen your connection to the holy Tzaddikim

is the night of the seventh day of Pesach.

For only after Kriyas Yam Suf does it say: 

“They believed in Hashem and in Moshe His servant” (Shemos 14:31).

Which means… until then, their Emuna was incomplete.

~ R’ Elimelech of Lizhensk zt”l

“The Jewish people were redeemed from Egypt only through prayer.” ~ Shemos Rabbah 38:4

Not through force.

Not through strategy.

Only through tefillah.

Nissan teaches us:

No matter how deep the darkness—

Redemption can come in an instant.

Beyond nature.

Beyond logic.

All it takes is Emuna.

~ The Rebbe of Piaseczna (Aish Kodesh)

Pesach is an intensely political festival.

It is about the central Jewish project:

constructing a society radically unlike any that had existed before.

~ R’ Lord Jonathan Sacks zt”l

The Seder night is a time to tell our children not only about our past but to inspire them about the future, to instill in them the hope and faith that redemption is always possible.

~ R’ Shlomo Carlebach zt”l

The matzah represents both our affliction and our freedom.

It teaches us that within the hardships of life lie the seeds of redemption.

~ R’ Joseph B. Soloveitchik zt”l