Sublime

“Yiras ha-romemus (reverence of G-d’s majesty) is not the same as yiras ha-onesh (fear of G-d’s punishment). Yiras ha-romemus is the reverence of a king, where a profound sense of shame keeps you from approaching the king, due to his awesome greatness. And, as a result of that, you come to love the king more, since despite his greatness and awesome

Insofar as Moses was declared the humblest of all human beings (Num 12:3), he can be viewed as the actualization of the character trait of self-sacrifice associated with Abraham, whence one may adduce the principle that the seventh is like the first.

For it is better for a person to cast himself into a burning furnace rather than embarrass his colleague in public.

Try to be as happy as you possibly can. Search for your good points in order to make yourself happy. If for nothing else, you can be happy with the thought that you are a Jew and God did not make you a non-Jew. If you genuinely realize the true implications of this you will find joy without limits. And nothing will be able to spoil it, because God

Rambam teaches that acting according to the letter of the law is mishpat (justice), while improving one’s good qualities is known as tzedek (righteous).

a dream of an intensive, passionate Torah environment for laypeople.

There is no one in the world who does not suffer in one way or another. People have all kinds of hardships and difficulties. It may be the problems of making a living, their health or domestic troubles with their wife and children and the other members of the household. Nobody can escape a certain amount of pain and hardship, because “man was born

All the world is a narrow bridge, Rebbe Nachman said, a narrow bridge between the nothingness at the beginning and the nothingness at the end. We spend our whole lives on this precarious span, unaware that we are even on it. Then one day we wake up and see it, and we feel terror. We say to ourselves, My God, what have I been doing with my life?