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
Tears open the gates, but joy breaks down the walls! ~ R’ Shlomo Carlebach zt”l
Alas for the man who permits himself to be deluded by the darkness of the evil inclination! Such men are not able to enjoy the Afterlife, for they are not prepared; they have accustomed themselves to delight in the false pleasures of the body. The conditions which made the righteous happy in the Afterlife, make the unprepared unhappy.” ~ R’ Avigdor Miller zt”l
“Az me hot gelt, is men klug un shain in men ken gut zingen” – “If you have money, you are wise and good-looking and can sing well too.” 🙂
Since each person may have a strong inclination toward a different mitzvah, God gave many mitzvos, so that every person will find his own spiritual niche and give his mitzvah particular care. ~ Derech Nichumecha from The Pirkei Avos Treasury
When R’ Yaakov Kamenetzky zt”l presented his son Binyamin with a watch as a bar mitzvah present, he told his son that “time is your most precious possession. Each moment is an opportunity for eternity, but if it’s lost it can never be regained. This watch will measure those moments.”
