Where are You?
If he perseveres and has the courage to take at least the first step, he commences a dialogue with God. The path of return will be shown to him.
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The Purpose of Exile
Wherever we happen to be, there is something important for us to do, even if we don't know exactly what it is.
Joy!
By turning joy into a duty and not an optional ideal, he taught us anew the precondition to any step towards good...
I Will Sing
"I will sing! (Azamra)" It goes on to explain that from all the good points that a man collects, a melody will be composed that will allow him to sing...
The Point
We are really unique. It would be absurd to take pride in this, just as it would be incongruous, in the other extreme, to minimize our importance...
Simplicity
Each of us, at our own level, dreams more or less of knowing the secrets of the world. But, simplicity of thought, simplicity of action...
The Treasure
I have succeeded in instilling in you a principle, said Rabbi Nachman: Do not deceive yourselves!
For The Best
How sad, how unnecessary! This is the absurd reasoning of “all or nothing” that uses the fantasy of the maximum as a trampoline and casts its victims...
The Inner Peace
Most people feel frustrated. One may feel that he is making no progress, but the very fact that he remains where he is, while doing his utmost, is in...
The Importance of Encouragement
If we ourselves have felt this need and endeavor to offer to those around us the comfort and warmth necessary for any progress, then we will...
The Cedar And The Reed
Let us be rather like the reed than the cedar, as the Talmud says. The reed, firmly planted, bends beneath the storm, but does not break...
Start Today
At such times, the solution consists in erasing the past and starting over as if this were the first time in our lives that we heard words of Torah...
By a Hair’s Breadth
If we go back to the source of our greatest errors, we will find that the initial deviation was always trifling, negligible. We deviated a hair's...
Renewal
Even if there were good things in the past, even it the preceding days were filled with positive memories, real progress and uplifting, one must...
The Supernal Light
How many sincere souls have already abandoned the ranks of Torah spiritual struggle because of the weight of their imperfection and the profound...
If I Only Knew
The greatest wisdom is to understand at what point we are far from Wisdom and yet to still yearn for Wisdom...