Career

Posted on May 27, 2014 by Emuna Daily

“The common conception of how the system works is faulty. They see a career as making a living. A career doesn’t make anything. What you receive is generated above, in a spiritual realm. Your business is to set up a channel to allow all that to flow into the material world.” ~ Tzvi Freeman 

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Power of Speech & Link to an Amazing Lecture

Posted on May 26, 2014 by Emuna Daily

“Every single word of lashon hara is considered a separate sin.  If all the words are reckoned together, they amount to an enormous sum.  Perhaps, G-d forbid, they may even outnumber the good deeds we have to our credit.” ~ Tales of the Tongue

I urge you all to listen to the following lecture by R’ Mendel Kessin.  I heard this lecture almost 20 years ago and it totally changed the way I speak.  It took me a long time to find it and share it with you.  It consists of 4 links (2 sides of each cassette tape) which can stream on your phone or computer.  He is very engaging and I highly recommend you give it a listen. 

I believe the lecture is called “”How to Significantly Improve Your Good Fortune:”

PowerOfSpeech1A

PowerOfSpeech1B

PowerOfSpeech2A

PowerOfSpeech2B

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Naches

Posted on May 25, 2014 by Emuna Daily

Naches fun kinder iz tei’erer fun gelt.

Pride in children is more precious than money.

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Reb Shlomo in the Subway Station

Posted on May 24, 2014 by Emuna Daily

I was once with Rebbe Shlomo (Carlebach) at a subway station in Berlin.  A disheveled, drunken man started shouting angrily at us, “You dirty Jews!”  I urged Rebbe Shlomo to leave, but instead he went up to this raving man and hugged him.  The man broke down and cried “I wish all the Jews were like you.” ~ R’ Yehoshua Witt

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That’s my seat!

Posted on May 23, 2014 by Emuna Daily

When Bnei Yisrael camped in the desert, they did so in a tight and specific formation.  No one complained about their place and no one attempted to change their position in the total configuration.  We, too, should emulate this quality of our ancestors and not quarrel about where we sit in shul or who has a more honorable and respectable place.  It is not the seat that brings a man honor, but the man who brings honor to the seat. ~ R’ Zalman Sorotzkin zt”l (Oznaim L’Torah) from Torah Tavlin

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Skipping Prayers

Posted on May 22, 2014 by Emuna Daily

The Maggid (angelic spokesman) warned Rabbi Yosef Caro to come on time to synagogue, so that he would be able to say the entire service in order.  When one skips prayers, he upsets the heavenly channels. ~ R’ Yehuda Ashkenazi zt”l as quoted by R’ Aryeh Kaplan zt”l

 

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The Royal Family

Posted on May 21, 2014 by Emuna Daily

The Menoras Hamaor cites a Midrash in which a wise woman told her daughter: “Serve your husband as if he were a king.  For, if you will act toward him like his maid, he will act as if he were your servant and will honor you like a queen.  If, however, you try to dominate him, he will be your master, and you will be in his eyes like a maidservant. ~ R’ Zelig Pliskin

Alternatively, after I got married, Bernie Kesselman told me the following: “If you want to be king, you have to first treat your wife like a queen.”

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Exchange Rate

Posted on May 20, 2014 by Emuna Daily

By speaking lashon hara against a person, one transfers all of his credits for Torah study and mitzvos to that person and receives in exchange all of the other person’s sins.  This is the meaning of the verse, “All of a person’s labor goes to his mouth.”  In other words, all of his reward is lost through his evil words.” ~ Chovos Halevovos

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The Teacher

Posted on May 19, 2014 by Emuna Daily

When you are going through something difficult and wonder where Hashem is, remember that the teacher is always quiet during the test. 

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When the Stomach is Empty

Posted on May 18, 2014 by Emuna Daily

Az der mogen iz laidik iz der moi’ech oich laidik.

When the stomach is empty, so is the brain.

Dedicated to many people I know 🙂 

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