If a person adds from the weekday to the holy day, Hashem will repay him in kind by adding years to his life. In addition, He will grant him wealth and honor. ~ Chavos Ya’ir as quoted by R’ Dovid Meisels
Have a wonderful shabbos and sorry for the typos yesterday!
The last stanza (way station) to which Torah will be exiled before the advent of Mashiach is America. ~ R’ Chaim of Volozhin zt”l (1720-1797)
By now, many of you have heard about the 15 year old boy named Natan, who recently (on the first night of Sukkos) had a near death experience, went up to Heaven and remembers everything he saw there. Not only is his personal experience incredible to hear about, but what he was told about the battle of Gog and Magog and the coming of Moshiach, which he states will occur within the next few weeks or months, is mind boggling.
I was going to write an entire summary, but I think you will get so much more out of it by watching the video. There are 2 options. One video of him telling his story is 38 minutes and includes English subtitles. If you are interested in seeing the rest of his story, there is another video which includes the first 38 minutes but then continues and is a total of 1 hour and 48 minutes. On this video, the subtitles are in French but could be converted to English in a few easy steps.
Just below is a link to the full video (or you can just watch on this website). You have to sign in to Youtube to watch this. Then on the bottom right of the video, click on CC, then settings, then “auto-translate” and then English.
https://youtu.be/PSUGlfJP0cg?t=1s
Here is a link to the original 38 minute video where none of the steps above are necessary or just watch on this website:
I gained a lot from this video, but one thing that I think needs to be stressed is that when he watched the movie of his life, he noticed that he was not asked and was not even shown sins he committed that he did teshuvah for. Hashem gives us such a gift – the opportunity to do teshuvah. You simply need to ask Hashem for forgiveness, regret your sin and commit never to do it again. Every day we should do teshuvah. It will make a world of a difference one day.
Now trust me…watch the video, if not now, at some point over the next few days. You won’t regret it.
One should not even think about others and their affairs unless it is for the purpose of benefiting them, whether for their bodies or their souls. Besides this, one should not think about them at all – ever. ~ R’ Yisroel Salanter zt”l
Know that calmness and humility are partners, just as their opposites, anger and pride, are partners.
Generally, what stirs anger is inward pride, while what causes calmness is inward humility. ~ R’ Avraham Ben HaRambam
“One who gathers a handful at a time will eventually have much” (Proverbs 13:11), but one who says, “Tomorrow I will study” ends up with nothing. ~ Yalkut Shimoni
Speaking loshon hora about someone in his presence is very serious even if your sole intention in mentioning his faults is to criticize him constructively. Corrective comments should be delivered privately. Offending someone publicly is loshon hora and constitutes a grave sin. You may also be guilty of causing him humiliation and mortification. ~ Guard Your Tongue
Darwin was able to formulate his theory of evolution only because he had never seen a real human being. Thus he could view men as no more than smarter monkeys. “Had he seen my rebbe, Reb Yisrael Salanter, who developed his character traits to a degree of perfection that fully expressed the essence of the Divine Image, he never could have entertained the possibility that human beings evolved from monkeys. ~ The Alter of Kelm
There are two books in Heaven, one of sins where you gave a sigh when you sinned and one when you didn’t, and the difference in punishment between them is greater than the distance between heaven and earth. ~ R’ Itzele Peterburger Blazer zt”l
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