A False Truth
The Medrash (Tanchuma, Korach, 11) states, that after the debacle with Korach his children repented. They exclaimed: “Moshe is true, his Torah is true, and we are deceitful.” Chassidim would explain that their statement,...
Category: meditations
Twenty-One Years For Truth
The great tzaddik Reb Pinchas of Koritz worked on the character trait of truthfulness for twenty-one years. For seven years he labored to remove himself from lying, another seven years to recognize what truth was,...
False Humility
There are some individuals who only see their faults and blemishes. They are only aware of their negative and their essential lowliness. This way of acting is false self-effacement and foolish humility. It destroys...
Flesh, Blood and G-d
In Tanya (Ch. 2) it states that every single Jew “from the highest of all ranks to the lowest that is embodied within the illiterate and the most worthless, all derive, as it were,...
Two Eyes, Two Goals
When the Previous Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn was a child, he once asked his father the following: “Why is it that G-d created man with two eyes? Wouldn’t man have sufficed with...
Senseless Love
The Talmud (Yuma 9b) states that the Second Temple was destroyed due to senseless hatred. Meaning to say, that they hated for no reason whatsoever; not for holy reasons and even contrary to basic...
Beloved and Dear
In a letter from the “Alter Rebbe,” Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liadi, he writes (Iggeres HaKodesh, 22): “Therefore, my beloved and dear ones: I beg of you to make an effort with all the...
Handicapped Angels
By Rabbi Dovid Markel The Mishna in Pirkei Avot states (4:11): “Rabbi Eliezer the son of Yaakov would say: ‘He who fulfills one mitzvah, acquires for himself one angel-advocate; he who commits one...
With Simple Faith
The chossid Reb Zalman Gurary once had an audience with the Lubavitcher Rebbe to request a blessing for the success of an upcoming surgery. When he told the Rebbe what he was his seeking,...
A Portrait
The chossid, Reb Velvel Villenker would often say: A misnaged is akin to a portrait that never changes. His state today is like it was yesterday and his tomorrow will be like today. A...
