Who will find Divine Mercy?

Posted on June 28, 2016 by Emuna Daily

Only he who has the courage to face up to his own wrongdoing and determines to change his ways will find divine mercy. ~ R’ Shlomo Zalman Breuer zt”l

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Don’t Look Elsewhere

Posted on June 27, 2016 by Emuna Daily
Sometimes, the motivation to grown spiritually comes from our respect for someone else, a Tzaddik, a Talmid Chacham… But this is a mistake.
We don’t need to look elsewhere to find the means to improve ourselves. Everything we need is right at home.  Every day, from morning to night, we encounter challenges that are meant just for us.  If we can accept them with faith and humility, and struggle with them as best we can, we will be blessed in this world and the next.  We don’t have to look for things about which we were not commanded, only to accept with love that which is already ours, for in this lies the path of perfection that God has intended for our souls. ~ R’ Yaakov Meir Shechter
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Not Impossible

Posted on June 26, 2016 by Emuna Daily

The Torah understands the depths of our nature, and reveals to us that we are indeed capable of guarding our tongues. ~ Chaftez Chaim

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15 Years!

Posted on June 25, 2016 by Emuna Daily

For fifteen years, R’ Yisroel Salanter was heard confessing: “My sin is before my eyes always” for having once forgotten to check his pockets before Shabbos, and for having once forgotten to check for chometz before Pesach in the place where salt was kept. ~ Sparks of Mussar

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Every Step of the Way

Posted on June 24, 2016 by Emuna Daily

Once the process of your teshuvah is under way, it is as though Hashem is leading you by the hand. ~ R’ Simcha H. Benyosef

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The answer to yesterday’s “Identify that Prayer” is: The Prayer for the Well-Being of the IDF (Israel Defense Forces) which is recited in many shuls on Shabbos morning.

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Identify that Prayer #13

Posted on June 23, 2016 by Emuna Daily

He Who blessed our forefathers Abraham, Isaac and Jacob — may He bless the fighters of the Israel Defense Forces, who stand guard over our land and the cities of our God, from the border of the Lebanon to the desert of Egypt, and from the Great Sea unto the approach of the Aravah, on the land, in the air, and on the sea.

May the Almighty cause the enemies who rise up against us to be struck down before them. May the Holy One, Blessed is He, preserve and rescue our fighters from every trouble and distress and from every plague and illness, and may He send blessing and success in their every endeavor.

May He lead our enemies under our soldiers’ sway and may He grant them salvation and crown them with victory. And may there be fulfilled for them the verse: For it is the Lord your God, Who goes with you to battle your enemies for you to save you.

Now let us respond: Amen

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Chess

Posted on June 22, 2016 by Emuna Daily

Our decisions in life must be as strategically calculated as a person playing chess.  See to it that any move you make is not later regretted. ~ R’ Simcha Bunim of Pshischa zt”l

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Torah or Tefillah?

Posted on June 21, 2016 by Emuna Daily

Which is more important, Torah or tefillah?

Well, Torah is Hashem speaking to man, while prayer is man speaking to Hashem.  Both are equally essential for a dialogue to take place. ~ Rav Yoisrael Yudellah zt”l as quoted in Torah Tavlin

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Thinking of You

Posted on June 20, 2016 by Emuna Daily

R’ Zadok of Lublin used to say that whenever you think of Hashem, He is thinking of you; but Hashem thinks of you in proportion to the amount of consciousness with which you think of Him.  To put it in other words, He gives you as much light as you have vessels to receive. ~ R’ Simcha H. Benyosef

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The Length of The Exile

Posted on June 19, 2016 by Emuna Daily

From the time we were exiled from our land, we have been praying and longing each day that Hashem may at last redeem us, but our prayers have not yet been answered.  There are many sins responsible for the length of the Exile, but the sin of lashon hara rises above them all.  Since the Exile was caused by lashon hara, the Redemption cannot come until we correct it.

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