Emuna Daily

“When we are suffering, Hashem feels our pain.  He’s pained by the fact that we sinned; and He’s pained further by the suffering He has to send us to help us atone for it. An example of this is found in Isaiah (63:9), where it says: ‘In all their affliction, He was afflicted.'” ~  R’ Shalom Arush

“I would rather live my life as if there is a God, and die to find out there isn’t, than to live my life as if there isn’t, and die to find out there is.” ~ Albert Camus

This, like some other spiritual quotes I might post in the future, was not taken out of a Jewish seifer, but I still thought it was worth posting.  

“When I’m learning Torah the deepest depths is not that I want to understand what it says.  The deepest depths is that I want to know how it relates to me, why do I need it?  Why did you tell me that G-d?” – R’ Shlomo Carlebach

“If a strict accounting were made of what one owes God for the kindness He has bestowed upon him, no man would ever attain the reward of the Word-to-Come for his deeds, except by God’s grace toward him.  Therefore, do not rely on your deeds!   David said in this regard: ‘Grace, O God, is Yours; You reward a man according to his work.’  (Tehillim 62;13).”  ~ Chovos Halevavos

“Why were Korach and his followers punished by being swallowed up by earth?  Because Korach and his congregation fought against Moshe, who, as the pasuk describes, was ‘more humble than anyone on the face of the earth.’  If so, there was no other place for Korach and his followers to descend other than underground.” – R’ Zev Wolf of Strikov zt”l taken from Torah Tavlin.