Parables

It was a long hard day. The presentation had to be perfect. The future of the company depended on it. The livelihood of 12 families depended on it. They all depended on me. No sweat. I knew we had a good product. I knew how to sell it and I knew who to sell it to. I was j...

Let's go back to the ABC's and see what G-d wrote in the Torah about the Yetzer Hara. When Kayin was not willing to sacrifice to G-d as much as Hevel was, G-d turned away from his offering. Kayin felt rejected and so G-d said to him:"Why are you sad? If you will do better...

Long ago, Rabbi Nachman of Breslov had recognized Simcha as the key to success in fighting the evil inclination and coming truly close to HaShem. In stressing the importance of Simcha he went so far as saying that depression - the antithesis of Simcha - constitutes "the m...

How does one get rid of lewd thoughts that distract him from his divine service and his purpose in life? They tell a story of a Ba'al Teshuvah who once came to one of the Chassidic Masters with this question. Having done Teshuvah for his past evil ways, he found that he ...

Once upon a time, a king wanted to see who among his servants was truly brave and strong. He had one of his foolish court jesters dress up in a large dragon outfit that looked truly strong and fierce. The king then called his two most trusted servants into the arena to fi...

Here is "Me's" very inspiring e-mail to us (edited for clarity). There is much to be learned from it: Shalom, B"H, tonight is my 2nd arrival at 90 days. The first time, I was running fearfully from the Yetzer Hara until I ended up falling. The second time around though, I...

Our struggle is like a baseball team, it's us playing against the other team (the Yetzer Hara). Although we try to win every game, that's super rare. The key is for us to win a lot more than the amount of games we lose. A winning streak puts us on fire (and the more days ...

Download this Powerpoint presentation (right click and press "Save As") and internalize the beautiful lesson it contains! The Daffodil Principle: One day at a time, one baby step at a time. We can learn to use the accumulation of time to create something beautiful and ma...

How do we proclaim Hashem's majesty? Do we walk down Mea Shearim and announce on a Speakerphone: "Yehudim Yekarim!! Listen up! Hashem is the King!" That's one way. Maybe. But there is another way. A more global way. Allow me to share the following famous...

Yankel the pauper was ecstatic. The wealthiest man in town, Zelig, had invited him to his daughter's wedding. Yankel was dreaming of all the sumptuous foods he will eat. In his foolishness, he decided to fast for 3 days in order to "build up an appetite"....

Today I reached the BIG 90 and I am quite excited. I never dreamed I could go on for 90 days without a fall, but thanks to GYE's combined forces I made it. That menuval!! Even on the last day he tried to make me fall. In previous situations he could have been successful, ...

When you get to Penn Station in NYC, sometimes, when there are a lot of trains, they will put an Amtrack train on the track right over from a LIRR train. They share the same platform. You get on the platform and the two trains are standing a few feet from each other. The ...

There's a classic joke where this guy walks into the doctor's office:Patient: Doctor, I hurt all over.Doctor: What do you mean?Patient: Look! (touches knee) - Ouch! (touches elbow) - Ouch! (touches shoulder) - Ouch!Doctor: You have a sprained finger.This joke/parable ap...

The Holy yidden of GYE that are uniting together in this spiritually dangerous world are probably causing a great commotion in Heaven. We are all fighting the Mabul that is threatening to engulf us all. What can be more pleasing to Hashem than this wonderful group, wh...

I heard a parable that helped me recently. I was listening to a shmuz by Rav Shafier about the tests we have in life, and he gave the mashal of two bikers that you see pass you. One guy, barely breaking a sweat, is cruising along, wind in his hair, no struggle at all, enj...

A man was sleeping at night in his cabin when suddenly his room filled with light and G-d appeared. Hashem told the man He had work for him to do and showed him a large rock in the path in front of his cabin. G-d explained that the man was to push against the rock with al...

We sometimes need "bumps" in life to wake us up. As Duvid Chaim once shared, imagine if they didn't have those bumps on the shoulder of the highway! You could swerve off and never not realize it. I was once driving, fell asleep at the wheel and woke up because of the bump...

R' Shimshon Pincus gives a beautiful mashal on the subject of trials that we feel are too strong for us. One time a doctor was given the task of managing an entire wing of a hospital. He was to asses each situation, and see to it that each patient gets proper attention. T...