“There are stars whose light only reaches the earth long after they have fallen apart. There are people whose remembrance gives light in this world, long after they have passed away. This light shines in our darkest nights on the road we must follow.” ~ Hannah Szenes
In honor of the yartzheit of R’ Shlomo Carlebach zt”l this Sunday.
An insincere peace is still better than a sincere quarrel! ~ The Chozeh of Lublin (Torah Tavlin)
Der derech hayosher iz alleh mol kosher – The just path is always the right one.
It should be clear to a person that all created things in this world, whether substance or accident, have definite limits. Nothing can add to, or detract from, what the Creator, may He be exalted, decreed in regard to its quantity, quality, time, or space. No one can increase what He decreed to be few, or diminish what He decreed to be many. No one can postpone what He decreed to move forward, or advance what he decreed to delay. And whatever runs contrary to this was so decreed in foreknowledge from the very first; it is just that all such decrees have [natural] causes, and these causes have causes [which preceded them]. ~ Chovos Halevovos
God asks no one whether he will accept life. This is not the choice. The only choice you have as you go through life is how you live it. – Bernard Meltzer
If Hashem refuses to give up on a single Jew – how can we? If Hashem can tolerate everyone – how can we not? The Abarbanel says that we are never punished for contemplating the commission of a transgression – with one exception – hating another Jew in our hearts.
Love, peace and unity = yiddishkeit. ~ R’ Menachem Azolai as translated by Dov Elias
When G‑d made the world He gave each creature, each nation and each individual a role and a meaning.
When each plays its part there is harmony.
When the lines become too blurred, there is acrimony. ~ R’ Tzvi Freeman
“The man who has no destination, is unhappy wherever he is put. But a man with a destination, is happy wherever he is put.” ~ Heard in a shiur given by R’ Moshe Weinberger. The words might not be verbatim.
The Creator’s ways of judgment are too hidden, deep, and exalted for us to arrive at knowledge of their particulars, certainly not of their general principles. As it says in Scripture: “For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways, and My thoughts than your thoughts” (Yeshayahu 55:9). ~ Chovos Halevovos
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