Emuna Daily

Quickly write down the top 3 blessings you have in your life.

Now, look at the list.

How many people wrote, “I’m thankful to be a Jew?”

Most people do not, but not because they don’t feel that way.

They realize it, but they aren’t living with it; they are not experiencing constant gratitude at the fact that they are Jews.

Live with it, express it, discuss it always, and your children will realize how fortunate they are, how truly blessed they are that they get to serve Hashem.

~ R’ Shalom Yona Weiss

An act of kindness performed today is like a seed that blossoms forth salvation at the most beneficial time, either for you or for a future descendant. 

~ R’ Samson Rafael Hirsch zt”l (1808-1888)

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)