Chazal (Rosh Hashanah 2:) tell us, “One day a year is counted like a year.”
The Chidushei HaRim zt’l says this alludes to erev Rosh Hashanah. This one day is equal to the entire year. If we do teshuvah on this day, it will be considered as if we were righteous the entire year. ~ R’ Elimelech Biderman
Shana Tova and Kesiva Vichasima Tova!
Giving tzedakah on erev Rosh Hashana is considered a great mitzvah. In fact, as a result of Jews giving tzedakah, the Heavenly Gates of Mercy are opened wide. For in the same measure that we take pity on the poor, Hashem takes pity on us. ~ Ohr Hachayim
On that note, I just wanted to remind you to set yourself up with one or both of these wonderful organizations before Rosh Hashanah to ensure that a day does not go by the entire year without giving tzedaka.
Daily Giving – https://dailygiving.org/
Sign up to donate $1 per day to charity, which they will distribute to over 50 wonderful charities that serve the greater Jewish community, most of which you are probably familiar with. I encourage you all to check out their website. Don’t miss out on this wonderful opportunity!
Keren Hashana – https://www.lubavitch.com/donate/keren-hashana/
Many years ago, the Lubavitcher Rebbe established “Keren Hashana,” a fund that will also disburse your tzedaka to worthy causes, daily, giving you the benefit of this mitzvah every day of the year!
You can give as little as 5 cents per day ($17.75 for the year) for you, and if you want, each of your family members, which will ensure that you and your family don’t go a day without giving tzedaka.
Don’t wait! These organizations are a lifesaver and now is the time to take care of this.
Lastly, don’t forget that “causing others to give tzedaka is greater than giving tzedakah yourself” (Bava Basra 9). Therefore, pass this on! By forwarding this to friends and family, who knows how many people will sign up for this great mitzvah and how much of an effect it will have on your neshama going into Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur.
Invest less in the stock market, and more in emuna.
~ R’ Lazer Brody
If people would only be satisfied with essentials, try to improve everyone else’s well-being and share in their common concerns, they’d conquer the world and have more than they ever wanted.
~ R’ Bahya Ibn Paquda zt”l
Each of us carries a great responsibility, for the fate of the world may hinge on one single mitzvah we perform.
~ Kuntres Chiddushei Torah
Why should a Jew cry to Hashem that He have compassion on the Jewish people and bring Moshiach?
It would be better for him to cry to the Jewish people that they have compassion on Hashem and want to bring Moshiach.
~ The Kotzker Rebbe
Before every tefillah, I daven…that I will daven during the davening.
~ The Divrei Chaim of Sanz
Where we are is up to Hashem, but who we are is up to us.
~ R’ Fischel Schachter
It is not that after we eat, we are obligated to make a blessing. Rather, the whole purpose of eating is that we should review the concepts found in Birkat Hamazon.
Every time you eat, you have an opportunity to recognize the kindness Hashem bestows upon you.
~ R’ Yeruchem Levovitz zt”l
Always remember you are never given an obstacle you can’t overcome.
~ R’ Nachman of Breslov zt”l
Emuna Daily 