Emuna Daily

If you don’t know what you’re prepared to die for you don’t know what you’re living for!

~ R’ Noach Weinberg zt”l

At the funeral for his wife, Lucy, R’ Leo Dee shared the following 9 rules his wife taught him and how she lived her life:

1. Forgive. When you hold grudges, it only hurts you.

2. Apologize. Even if it’s not your fault.

3. Don’t stay upset for too long.

4. Be passionate about what you do. If you aren’t, change what you do.

5. Find yourself an occupation that you are so passionate about that you want to jump out of bed in the morning.

6. You don’t have to be the best, you have to give it your best.

7. Explore. Grow older, if you’re so fortunate, but never grow up. There should always be a sense of wonder in everything.

8. Love all your children equally.

9. The more you share, the more you have. 

Sadness isn’t a sin, but the timtum haleiv (closed heart) that sadness generates, the greatest sin doesn’t create.

~ R’ Ahron HaGadol of Karlin zt”l

When one is afraid of something, he makes himself vulnerable to it. 

If he is afraid of poverty, poverty rules over him, and therefore, he is liable to become poor. 

~ The Maharal (Bava Metzia 33)

I have not come to this world merely to fulfill my obligations.

~ The Kopischnitzer Rebbe

We can’t control life, but we can control our attitude.

~ The Ba’al Shem Tov

Perform an important mitzva, but never reveal it to anyone else so the only ones who are aware of it are HaShem and you.

~ R’ Nachman Kahana

Keep learning from life itself. 

There is no phenomenon in the world from which you cannot learn something practical.

By utilizing every opportunity for gaining wisdom, you will constantly keep improving and growing.

~ R’ Chaim Mordechai Katz zt”l

“In every generation, one must consider himself as if he left Mitzrayim.”

The Sfas Emes zt’l says that one must think this way because this is exactly what is happening.

Every year, on Pesach, we become free, and we leave our problems behind.

The Sfas Emes writes, “According to the extent one believes that he’s leaving his troubles, so will it be.”

~ R’ Elimelech Biderman

Unlike most other mitzvos, the uniqueness of matzah is that it enters the body.

Therefore, it is like a spiritual remedy.

It removes all the bad that is inside him and enables him to be reunited with Hashem.

~ The Tiferes Shlomo