Emuna Daily

Don’t worry if your only option left is to pray – it just means that you’ve narrowed down your options to the best one.

~ Rav Dror

Whatever difficulty you are going through, Hashem is doing it for a reason.

It’s not random, nothing Hashem does is random.

Nothing He does is TO you.

Everything He does is FOR you.

~ R’ Moshe Malka

Happiness doesn’t come from indulging in yourself and your needs.  If you are focused on your needs, you will only see what you don’t have yet.

Instead, focus on all the blessings that God has given you and you will find reasons to be grateful.

~ The Lubavitcher Rebbe zt”l

Ever since the Beis Hamikdash was destroyed, the gates to heaven are closed.

Except one set of gates.  The gates of tears.  They have never closed.

Now, what does that mean? You get some tears on your cheeks and you’re guaranteed an answer?

When does a person cry? When he really feels it. When he’s really moved. When it hurts. When it’s sincere and genuine.

Tefillah has to be for real, and then it’s tefillah, and then it goes straight in, and then it’s accepted.

The gates of tears, the doors that stand before tefillos offered from a place of complete and total sincerity, they are the ones that are wide open.

~ Rav Gav

When a person is moser nefesh – when he makes a great sacrifice, exerting himself beyond his capabilities to do a mitzvah – then Hashem gives him extra assistance to accomplish his goals.

~ Ha’amek Davar

The water in the tank can be pure, but if the pipe that carries it is stuffed or corroded, you won’t get to that clean water.

Your tefillos are so holy, and there are pipes meant to carry them to Heaven; your mouths.

And when a person lies or slanders, when he or she uses his/her mouth to hurt another, he or she destroys those pipes.

The ocean is filled with clean, pure water.

Let that holiness get to where it’s meant to be, let those pipes be perfect and whole.

~ R’ Pesach Krohn

Don’t take criticism (or get insulted) from someone you wouldn’t take advice from.  

~ Gedale Fenster

Faith is dependent upon a person’s mouth. [Speaking about faith not only increases it – it is faith!]

~ R’ Nachman of Breslov zt”l (1772-1810)

Chazal teach us that all the pleasures of this world are naught compared to a moment’s delight in the World-to-Come.

It has been noted that not only is a moment of the next world more pleasurable than all of this world’s joy, but even a mere sniff of its fragrance is superior to anything this world can offer.

~ Sichos Mussar by R’ Chaim Shmulevitz zt”l

Wherever Hashem directs our steps, we find our purpose. 

If we stop asking “What am I doing here?” and ask instead, “What can I do here?” we will never doubt that we are exactly where we need to be.

~ A Daily Dose of Pesukim of Bitachon by R’ David Sutton