Torah

; It is brought down in many places, especially in the chassidish sefarim, that a person needs friends to help him in avodas Hashem. ; Chazal say: ;כל הגדול מחבירו יצרו גדול ממנו. ; The Beis Aharon of Karlin read this in the following way: כל הגדול - מחבירו - Whoever is great, it's from his fri...

To add to the testimonial regarding "The movie theater up in heaven," I too think like that when it comes to fighting the ultimate fight against my yezter hara. ;I recently installed a nanny cam in my house which saves clips on a cloud, and I sometimes watch myself learning in my kitchen...

In this week's Parsha we learn about the animals, fish, insects, and birds that we may not eat. The Torah describes them as "Toeiva" - an abomination. We are taught that by eating these things we are destroying our Neshamos, and the damage is very great. Why is it that these things are so dangero...

We know "sheva yipol tzaddik v'kum". To fall seven times you have to have been up in between. The possuk tells us don't worry you will eventually stand without falling. But what about someone who remains on the ground the whole time. For where does he know that there is hope for him to keep on tr...

Every place where the chometz was brought during the year, requires careful inspection (bedikah). This means to say that everyone needs to inspect his soul for place that the "chometz" (i.e. the Evil Inclination) dwells there, each one according to his or her level. For example, someone who habit...

Adam ki yakriv meekem korban Lashem min habehemahAdam ki yakriv, a person who wishes to come close to the RBSO, should look at a korban and learn about his own ability. ;Any person who declares an animal he owns to be a korban, instantly transforms that animal into ;kodesh ;or ;kodshei kodoshim. ...

I saw a wonderful insight from Rabbi Galinsky Zt"l which is very relevant to our struggles. We all know the Baal Haturim (even if we didn't know that it was the Baal Haturim who says it) why Vayikra is written with a small aleph. Explains the Baal Haturim that when Moshe sat to write the word Va...

During the hundreds of years that the Children of Israel lived in the land of Egypt, they gathered and elevated sparks of holiness that were hidden there. Our ancestors did what they had to do while enslaved in the lowest place on earth, they were ultimately successful in their mission. Once the ...

The Klausenberger Rebbe zy"a after the war was in the DP camps and it was ;Purim ;and he was at the seudah surrounded by many people, each one with a tragic story, this one lost a wife, this one his parents, this one his children and so on. the matzav ruach was very low. ;the Rebbe started speaki...