………”Many people believe that human beings cannot enter into a personal relationship with G-d. According to that view, such relations exists between people, but with respect to G-d there is only obligation: He commands, and we must obey. That view is as destructive as it is prevalent. Those who think our connection to G-d is [...]
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Relationship With Hashem
Posted in Hashkafa, tagged good deeds, jewish view on prayer, jews and prayer, mitzvos, rav yitzchok kirzner, the purpose of mitzvos, why do mitzvos?, why we do mitzvos on December 16, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Pain & Suffering – A Call To Hashem!
Posted in Hashkafa, tagged Hashkafa, jewish pain, jewish suffering, nisayon, nisyonos, rambam, spiriual suffering, tzar, tzaros, why good people suffer on December 14, 2010 | 2 Comments »
The experience of pain in one form or another, is part of the human condition and none of us are exempt from it. In the eys of the Torah and as part of our Hashkafa, we Jews are taught that one can achieve a heightened relationship with Hashem through the experience of pain. When we [...]
Faith & Trust – Emunah & Bitachon
Posted in Hashkafa, tagged belief, bitachon, brisker rav, emunah, faith, nazis, philosophers, philosophy, rav matisyahu salamon, rav pincus on December 9, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Rav Matisyahu Salamon Shlita, explains the difference between Emunah and Bitachon. Emunah is a “concept” or a “theory”, while Bitachon is Emuna in action, or the application of Emunah into ones everyday life and actions. Therefore, a person can theoretically be a “Ba’al Emunah” without being a “Ba’al Bitachon”. However, if one is truly a [...]
Hashem Don’t Throw Me Away!
Posted in Hashkafa on December 8, 2010 | 2 Comments »
This quick post is dedicated to R’ Noam Elbaz who provided much needed Chizuk at just the right time. I once heard Rav Yaakov Meir Shechter Shlita, comment that sometimes when a Jew is languishing in the doldrums and feels unable to articulate properly in his Tefilos, he should simply speak to Hashem in plain [...]
Let’s Cry Over Our Inability To Cry!
Posted in Hashkafa, tagged bais hamikdash, breslev, breslov, churban, churban habayis, jewish temple, kotzker rebbe, rav nachman, rav nachman of breslov, sefer, sefer tehilim, tisha b'av on November 3, 2010 | 1 Comment »
As we walk through life, we are constantly barraged by an onslaught of diversions which makes us stray from our task on this Earth and which prevents us from achieving our destinty. We have lost our ability for emotional expression, we do not ‘feel’ anything for Hashem , for ourselves and for the Shechina in Galus! [...]
The Greatness Of Hashem!
Posted in Hashkafa, tagged Gods greatness, harav shach, maran harav shach, names of Hashem, rav shach, sha-dai on October 27, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Maran Harav Shach Zatzal, once commented that he heard an explanation for why we refer to Hashem (one of his ‘names’) as “Sha-dai”. The shoresh of this word is derived from the term “Dai”, which is literally translated as “enough”. Unlike every experience of the human condition, where things can be easily quantified in terms [...]
Throw Yourself Into The Torah & Hide From Esav
Posted in Hashkafa, tagged esav, Forefathers, jewish persecution, parshas devarim, power of torah, rav gifter, Torah on July 28, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The pasuk in Parshas Devarim tells us that Hakadosh Baruch Hu instructs the B’nei Yisroel not to fight Esav, for it is an exercise in futility. Rather, Hakadosh Baruch Hu tells us, ”Pnu use’u Tzafonah” – move away and travel in a different direction. This connotes the directive for Klal Yisroel to ‘hide’, stemming from the term [...]
Connecting to Torah Requires Yiras Shamayim
Posted in Hashkafa, tagged biblical science, fear of heaven, rav mordechai gifter, telz, yiras hashem, yiras shamayim on July 16, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
To have a true connection to Torah, one must possess Yiras Shamayim – Fear of Heaven. A person who learns Torah but does not possess any Yiras Shamayim is simply engaging in the study of ”Biblical Science” or in “Talmudic Knowledge”……….this person is about as connected to the Torah, as I am to the moon!! <Heard Directly From [...]
The Greatest Churban Of Our Times, Is Our Own!
Posted in Hashkafa, tagged 3 weeks, churban, churban habayis, destruction of the bais hamikdash, nazis, rav mordechai gifter, Telshe, telz, telz lithuania on July 12, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
In our society, we are already living in a time, where we are not only ignorant of the history of our Churbanos and the destruction and annihilation of our people…indeed we are not even interested in learning about/from this history!! “This ‘Churban-Destruction’, is perhaps the greatest Churban of all of our Churbanos”….the fact that we don’t [...]
God Wants Us To Enjoy Life!
Posted in Hashkafa, Prayer, tagged enjoy god, maimonidies, mans purpose, mesilas yesharim, purpose of creation, purpose of our existence, rambam, spirituality, what does god want from us, why are we alive? on June 16, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Hashem is always blessing u with his bounty. Indeed, Hashems love for us – his children, is called ‘Ahava She’eino Teluyah B’davar’ – ‘An uncoditional love’. However, most of the time we do not appreciate these blessings since we have grown accustomed to them. For this reason, the Yetzer Hara – our Evil Inclination, need [...]
