Archive: October 2017

Ruth 3:11

Posted on October 13, 2017

Whatever you ask I will do for you…

Ashrei Prayer

Posted on October 13, 2017

Your wondorous deeds I shall discuss.

Maimonides, Guide for the Perplexed, 1190, 2:6

Posted on October 13, 2017

Everyone entrusted with a mission is an angel.

Berachot 57b

Posted on October 13, 2017

Three things restore a person’s spirit: (beautiful) sounds, sights and scents.

Seder Eliyahu Rabbah

Posted on October 13, 2017

Four virtues refresh the world: charity, justice, truth and peace.

Mechilta de R. Ishmael

Posted on October 13, 2017

R. Josiah said: Just as you must not allow matzah to rise, ferment, or sour by lack of promptness in its baking, so you must not let a mitzvah sour by delyaing its performance, by letting it wait.

Mesillat Yesharim

Posted on October 13, 2017

For people of true understanding, the incentive to zeal comes from a sense of duty and the realization of the worth of the good deed itself.

Deuteronomy 6:18

Posted on October 13, 2017

Do what is right and good in the L-rd’s sight.

Avot d’Rabbi Natan

Posted on October 13, 2017

If a man gives to his fellow all the good gifts of the world but does so with a grumpy demeanor, the Bible regards it as if he had given nothing. But is he receives his fellow cheerfully and kindly, the Bible regards it as if he had given him all the good gifts of Continue Reading »

Proverbs

Posted on October 13, 2017

Anxiety in a man’s heart saddens it, but a good word gladdens it.