The Practical Tanya - Part One - The Book for Inbetweeners

Rabbi Harold Kushner notes, rather than suppressing our desires (like the folks who imprisoned the yetzer hara), or mindlessly indulging them, we can sanctify our desires with the mitzvot—elevating them and ensuring they’re in the service of something beyond mere bodily satisfaction.

The first version says that the Chofetz Chaim answered, "If a person thinks that income comes from his business, then he might try to pressure customers into buying. People, especially prospective customers, shy away from pressure tactics and those who resort to them. If they'd only trust Hashem for their income, they'd spare themselves and ot

The central aspect of any fast is the charity which the person who is fasting gives. Fasting and charity make it possible to subdue the body as against the soul, substance as against form, folly as against wisdom. One emerges from darkness to light, from death to life, from animality to the level of Man. The force of alien ideologies and all other

So too, there are people who have a natural desire for connecting to God through mitzvot that are directly focused on God (bein adam la’Makom), while they may not strongly desire to be involved in mitzvot that are directed toward ethics (bein adam l’chavero). Conversely, there are some