Rabbi Yisroel Salanter would constantly say that the root of all transgressions is a lack of Emuna.
It comes from a failure to internalize the fact that there is a reward for doing good and punishment for doing wrong.
It comes from a failure to visualize how an evil person suffers in Gehenom while the righteous are blessed with eternal ecstasy.
~ R’ Chaim Mordechai Katz zt”l (1894-1964)
To attain bitachon, one also needs bitachon!
Have bitachon that Hashem will help you attain bitachon!
~ The Satmar Rebbe zt”l (1887-1979)
The Gemara (Sanhedrin 88b) describes a person who merits a place in the World to Come as one who is unpretentious, has a humble posture, bends his head when he enters and leaves [to avoid attention], and regularly studies Torah, yet does not take credit for himself.
~ Orchos Yosher
Hashem desires our success even more than we desire it for ourselves!
Knowing this should fill us with serenity…
~ R’ Meir Simcha HaKohen of Dvinsk zt”l (1843–1926)
When one is afraid, the fear itself makes it more likely for that which is feared to occur, r’l.
~ R’ Elimelech Biderman
Our Emuna in Hashem must be complete and absolute.
A compromised Emuna is not Emuna.
~ R’ Chaim Soleveitchik zt”l (1853-1918)
There is a great rule that I must tell you: When two people are wrestling, if one of them is lazy and moves about heavily, he will fall, even if he is the stronger one.
The same is true with the war against the Yetzer Hara. You can’t win this war with laziness and heaviness, which are the product of sadness and a closed heart – a heart as hard as a stone.
You only win the battle with zrizus, which comes from a pure heart that is alert, clear from all worldly worries and sadness.
~ Tanya (ch.26)
A single mitzvah performed in our decadent, immoral times is equal to many “big” mitzvos done in previous generations, when resistance of the Yetzer Hara was less fierce…”
~ The Arizal (1534-1572)
Everyone’s got their thing [that they struggle with]. For one person it is getting up on time. For one person it is saying all of davening. For another person, it is having kavanah in davening. Everyone’s got their thing.
Ask yourself, what is the one thing you just don’t want to do? Is it something you know the Ribono Shel Olam wants you to do, but you rather not deal with it?
That’s Mesiras Nefesh!
Don’t worry! The Siyata Dishmaya will be there [to help you through it]. All you need is Mesiras Nefesh for what we know is right, for what we live for.
~ R’ Yitzchak Berkowitz
Every mitzvah one does on Shabbos is 500 times greater than a mitzvah performed on a weekday.
A daf Gemara studied on Shabbos is equivalent to studying 500 daf Gemara on a weekday.
A chapter of Tehillim on Shabbos equals 500 chapters of Tehillim on a weekday.
~ R’ Shlomke Zvhiller zt”l
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