R’ Salanter’s Last Moments

When Rabbi Yisroel Salanter was on his deathbed there was only a single individual in the room. Rav Yisroel realized that most people feel very uneasy about being alone in the same room with a corpse.  To allay his companion’s fears, Rabbi Salanter spent this last moments in this world convincing him that it is needless to be afraid of a corpse and that he should not be nervous ~ Tnuas Hamussar as quoted by R’ Zelig Pliskin

 

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Hashem’s Hand

Those who leave everything in Hashem’s Hand will eventually see Hashem’s Hand in everything.

Sorry for the delay.  Have a wonderful Shabbos!

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A Triple Murder

Loshon Hora kills three people: the speaker, the listener, and the subject. ~ Erchin 15b

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How to Increase your Love of Hashem

The more you know about Hashem, the more you are able to love Him…

You can recognize Hashem in the world when you see things that show such wonderful arrangement and purposefulness. It’s as if Hashem was here and you just missed him; He just turned around the corner. With that knowledge it’s easier to think about loving Hashem because He means something to you. ~ R’ Avigdor Miller zt”l

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The Prayer of Alenu

I found a manuscript relating a tradition that one should recite Alenu with awe and reverence…. All the hosts of heaven hear it, and the Blessed Holy One and His heavenly family rise and respond, “Happy is the one who has all this…” ~ R’ Moshe Mat as quoted by R’ Aryeh Kaplan

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The Here and Now

What will be in the next moment is not in this one now.
It does not yet exist.
It has yet to be created.
When its time comes, then it will be created by the Creator of all things,
out of nowhere, emerging from the void.

There is only one thing that exists at this moment: That in which you are engaged right now. ~ R’ Tzvi Freeman

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Seek

Az me zucht, gefint men.

If you seek, you will find.

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Slow Down

A student of Rabbi Eliyahu Dov Lazerovitz was once walking with him to the yeshiva.  They started out at a very brisk pace, then all of the sudden Rabbi Lazerovitz slowed down to a snail’s pace.  The student asked him if anything was wrong.  Rabbi Lazerovitz pointed to an elderly gentleman who was walking very slowly in front of them and said, “If we walk at our regular pace, he’s likely to feel badly that he is not able to go as quickly as us.”  Only when that elderly person turned into a side street did Rabbi Lazerovitz pick up speed. ~ Tnuas Hamussar as quoted by R’ Zelig Pliskin

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2 Ears and 1 Mouth

“Why did G-d create us with two ears but one mouth? To teach us to listen twice as much as we speak.” ~ R’ Moshe Herson

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Without Sin on Shavuos

Shavuos is the only Biblical festival in connection with which the Torah does not command that a Korban Chatas – sin offering, be brought.  For on Shavuos, the day on which the Torah was received, every Jew is in the category of a convert, who is considered to be “a young child who is just born.”  Just as a newborn infant is without sin, so too are the Jewish people without sin on Shavuos.” ~ R’ Levi Yitzchak of Berditchev zt”l from Torah Tavlin

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