Emuna Daily

You don’t always have control over what happens, but you do have control over what you do with the experience. 

Click here to answer the Question of the Week: https://forms.gle/YxJTbhT2fJ6WUFao7

As we’ve discussed, each of us must respond to the call of duty in our own unique way, be it through prayer, acts of kindness, or other means.

Spiritually, what commitments or actions have you undertaken or do you plan to undertake to support the well-being of Klal Yisrael?

Please submit your answer, which we will share at the end of the week. It may inspire others to do something similar!

In the World to Come, explains the Maharal of Prague, each of us will experience a revelation of Divine wisdom in proportion to the faith we had in God during life’s difficult moments, according to our efforts to continue and believe in Him, even when we were low and felt nothing.

~ R’ Yaakov Meir Shechter

Two things are necessary for man’s self-perfection.

One is to arouse and inspire himself.

The other, by far the harder, is to carry out his good resolutions and retain the inspiration when it comes down to action.

~ R Naftali Amsterdam zt”l

Rabbi Yochanan said: “Just as the olive yields oil for light only when it is pounded, so are a Jew’s greatest potentials realized only under the pressure of adversity.”

~ Talmud Menachos 53b

Before God performs a miracle for him, a person first falls upon bad times – the difficulty of which is determined by the greatness of the miracle [about to be performed on his behalf].

~ R’ Nachman of Breslov zt”l

The same can be said about the entire nation of Klal Yisrael.

R’ Zadok of Lublin used to say that whenever you think of Hashem, He is thinking of you; but Hashem thinks of you in proportion to the amount of consciousness with which you think of Him. 

To put it in other words, He gives you as much light as you have vessels to receive.

~ R’ Simcha H. Benyosef

A Jew is never lost on his journey.  Wherever he finds himself, God has a reason for placing him there.

~ R’ Mordechai Pogremansky zt”l

A soldier once said, “What is courage?  Courage is fear that has said its prayers.” 

Someone forwarded the following inspirational message:

While many people have been drafted to the army to defend Eretz Yisrael, in truth, we have all been called up.  We just have to figure out which division we belong to.

Are we among those driving tanks at the border of Gaza to protect our people, or are we in the Prayer division, focusing on the strength of Tefillah?

There are so many divisions, including the Ahavas Yisrael division, the Tzedaka division, and the Torah learning division, to name a few.

I encourage each of us to identify the division in which we can be most useful during this difficult time.  

Wishing us all a smooth and successful week, and praying for the peace and safety of Am Yisrael.