The Definition of Serving Hashem

The definition of what it means to serve Hashem is the feeling of humility of someone who receives a benefit.  If favors are done for an individual and he is unable to pay for what he is receiving, he is so overwhelmed that he becomes humbled toward the benefactor. He should feel the need to repay Hashem for the good that he is receiving to the extent of his abilities. ~ R’ Avigdor Miller zt”l

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Needing Honor

If you need others to honor you, you are in a worse situation than someone who needs others to give him charity.  When someone resorts to begging for tzedakah (charity), others feel sorry for him and have mercy on him.  But if people see that someone requires honor, they will automatically refuse to give it to him.  ~ R’ Yosef Leib Bloch zt”l (Torah Tavlin)

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A Good Wife

A good wife is one who makes her husband want the right things. ~ R’ Tzvi Freeman

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Announcement: Some Changes to Emuna Daily

A friend of mine heard from R’ Moshe Weinberger of Aish Kodesh, that hearing stories of tzaddikim (righteous people) after Shabbos, is very beneficial for our neshamos (souls), as the stories themselves as well as the mentioning of a tzaddik provides tremendous Bracha through the week. Therefore, God willing, with my friend’s help, we will begin to post a story of a tzaddik each Saturday night.

Second, I have received both positive and negative feedback regarding the yiddish lines that I began posting on Wednesdays over the last month or so. I don’t want to get rid of it since many of you enjoy it, but I also don’t want to cheat anyone out of Torah. Therefore, I plan on moving the yiddish quotes to Sunday (a day on which I don’t typically post).

Therefore, we are making the leap from 5 days to 7 days per week. Stories of Tzaddikim on Saturday nights, Yiddish proverbs on Sundays and spiritually uplifting quotes and other Torah on Mondays through Fridays.  I hope you all enjoy!

 

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We Don’t Have all the Answers

Hashem tells us through the prophet, לא מחשבותי מחשבותיכם – the human mind is not capable of understanding His ways in this world.  Part of being a Jew is knowing that we do not have to know the answers to all questions.  Emuna means that we do not understand everything.  It is belief – belief that Hashem is צדיק וישר, everything He does is correct and just.  ~ Divrei Chizuk
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Stars

“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.

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Insincere Peace

An insincere peace is still better than a sincere quarrel! ~ The Chozeh of Lublin (Torah Tavlin)

 

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The Just Path

Der derech hayosher iz alleh mol kosher – The just path is always the right one.

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It is not up to you

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

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The Only Choice

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

 

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