Abundant Kindness
The essence of trust.
Category: INSPIRATION
Help Your Fellow
When unfortunately, something bad happens to an individual , concerning his children, health or livelihood, he must have faith that he deserves what occurred to him and trust that G-d will help him. However,...
Don’t Trust
The Bal Shem Tov once said: The commandment that one must have the trait of Bitachon (absolute trust in G-d) is only on one’s self. When some misfortune befalls man, he must, according to...
Equanimity
Anything that happens to man—good or bad—should be viewed with complete equanimity. Whether he is praised or denigrated; whether he eats delicacies or a simple repast, it should all be the same in his...
The Master Key
Once, at a chassidic gathering, the 5th Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Sholom Dovber, said the following: In Heaven, one may not enter the heavenly chambers unless one is deserving; if one isn’t they cannot enter....
Simplicity vs. Intellect
An excerpt from a letter of the Previous Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn: A great intellectual who relies on his own intellect is more susceptible to error than an individual who does everything...
The Purpose
The 5th Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Sholom Dovber of Lubavitch once said: The primary intent of service of G-d is to set one’s self aside and accept the yoke of Heaven; to subject one’s senses...
A Ball of Joy
An idiom from early chassidim: “a chossid is a ball of joy and a ball of fire!” (Sefer HaSichosm 5703, Pg. 6)
Parshas Terumah – Above Nature
By Rabbi Akiva Wagner R’ Getzel Rubashkin was a chassidishe Yid, who displayed mesirus nefesh in Russia to uphold the torch of Yiddishkeit. When he came to America he continued to be a...
A Biblical Commandment
In the eyes of chassidim, being happy and seeing the positive in every situation is considered as if it were a biblical commandment. (Additions to Keser Shem Tov, 169)
