Emuna Daily

“Can you imagine waiting for somebody 2,000 years?
We’ve been waiting for Yerushalayim for 2,000 years.
We’ve been thinking about Yerushalayim for 2,000 years.
The truth is that I’m always thinking about Yerushalayim. It is the one place I never stop thinking about.
You can talk to me about anything in the world, but deep, deep inside, I don’t stop thinking about the 6 million. I can’t.
How can you forget them for one second?
How can you forget Yerushalayim for one second?” ~ R’ Shlomo Carlebach zt”l

The paradox of anti-Semitism is that it is invariably up to the Jews to explain away the charges.  The anti-Semite simply has to make them. ~ Jack Schwartz

You cannot even have an artificial attitude [of thanks] toward Hashem unless you have a natural behavior pattern of thanking people.

If you acquire that behavior pattern, you will thank your mother or your wife for making your meals, you will thank your father for buying you clothing, and you will thank your rebbe for teaching you Torah. You can then use this attitude in expressing your gratitude to Hashem. ~ R’ Avigdor Miller zt”l