Emuna Daily

In order to improve the level of your prayers, remember a time and place when you felt spiritual elevation during prayer. 

By reliving the scene in your mind, your prayers will be on a higher level.

~ R’ Zelig Pliskin

Even if correcting your traits seems far away from your reality at present, behave as if they were already corrected and your external behavior will eventually have a positive influence on your inner state.

~ R’ Eliyahu Dessler zt”l

Be so grateful that you have the opportunity to praise Hashem that you praise Him for giving you the ability to praise Him. 

~ R’ Levi Yitzchok of Berditchev zt”l

I don’t feel that it’s important to ask help from people many times.  I rely on the Chofetz Chaim, who often said,

“From a human, one doesn’t ask too much.”

Because what is man? Only Hashem can help.

~ The Chazon Ish zt”l

How many times do we say, “I should have called that person, that person looked sad, he looks needy, I could have walked over and smiled, I could have sent a text?” 

But we don’t always follow through.  Life is busy.  There is so much to do.  But we find time for the things we care about. And if you care about people, then you’ll find the time for them, you’ll find the words, you’ll find the heart.

There is so much time in a day, when you’re sitting in the car, in a waiting room, on your couch at home. 

Pick up the phone. 

To you, it’s just a few moments; to the other person, it might change his whole day. 

~ R’ Gedaliah Zlotowitz

Someone once said to the Pnei Menachem of Gur zt”l, “What can I do? I just don’t enjoy studying Torah?”

The Pnei Menachem replied, “What can I do? I love studying Torah?”

Meaning, the Pnei Menachem wished he could also have such challenges because then the value of his Torah and its reward for studying it, would be far greater!

Hashem generally saves a person in a way he never imagined.

~ R’ Pinchas of Koritz zt”l

There is always room for tefillah, but there is never room for complaining or for being upset, because Hashem leads us in the best way.

~ R’ Elimelech Biderman

Our sages teach us that joy is one of the greatest ways to bring blessing into whatever you do.

Don’t wait for conditions to change to be happy; be happy and then you will see the conditions change.

Joy is the spiritual law of attraction.

~ Gedale Fenster

The more we become aware that our help can only come from Hashem, that He can and wants to give us everything, and the more we tell Hashem how much we rely on Him, the more He will show us how much he cares about us and assure us of His greatest blessings. 

~ R’ Chaim Shmulevitz zt”l