Develop yourself to the best of your ability Rabbi Eliezer, the son of Shamua, would say: “The honor of your student should be as precious to you as your own; the honor of your colleague, as the honor of your master; and the honor of your master as your awe… Read More »Respect Every Human Being?
Develop yourself to the best of your ability בָּֽא־זָ֭דוֹן וַיָּבֹ֣א קָל֑וֹן וְֽאֶת־צְנוּעִ֥ים חׇכְמָֽה׃ When pride comes, then comes shame, but with the modest is wisdom. (Proverbs 11:2) Translations render the Hebrew word “zadon” as pride or arrogance or hubris. The commentaries on this verse, however, give the word a stronger… Read More »Why is Pride Dangereous?
Develop yourself to the best of your ability When one is negative, we deny G-d and Take no pride in the good you do (have done) – imagine, that is was G-d. (Baal Shem Tov) Sometimes we feel negative because “everything” we do does not work out and everything just… Read More »I Did a Good Thing? … It Was G-d
Develop yourself to the best of your ability The month of Elul is for both Jews and Noahides a month of reflection and return to G-d. All go under His shepherd’s rod on Rosh HaShana to see how we are. All the peoples of the world are judged according to… Read More »Teshuva
Develop yourself to the best of your ability After Adam had eaten from the Tree of Knowledge, G-d asked: Where are you? Not that G-d did not know, but He asked as it were: Adam where are you in your development? It is the question that G-d is asking us… Read More »Go the Extra Mile
Develop yourself to the best of your ability When grandma comes for coffee, half of it is on the saucer and the crumbs from the cake are more on the sofa than she has eaten. Grandma’s hands are not as steady as they used to be, and the shaking makes… Read More »Grandma Is More Important Than A Clean Sofa
Develop yourself to the best of your ability “The Torah Ideal is to speak to others in a manner that makes it a pleasure experience. Your tone of voice should be calm and pleasant when you speak to anyone. Do not speak in anger or raise your voice.” Rabbi Eliyahu… Read More »To Speak or To Write
Develop yourself to the best of your ability Our negative thinking and certainly speaking, causes there to be others that think and speak negatively against us – however if we use our thoughts and words for prayer and Torah-study and we pray for our enemies, then their evil dissipates. (Baal… Read More »Negative Thinking – One of Our Greatest Enemies
Develop yourself to the best of your ability Moses received the Torah from Sinai and transmitted it ot Joshua, Joshua to the Elders, the Elders to the Prophets, and the Prophets transmitted it to the Men of the Great Assembly. They said three things; Be deliberate in judgment, develop many… Read More »Make a Fence That You Do Not Judge Your Fellow Man
Develop yourself to the best of your ability Once we break a taboo 3 times, it seems o.k … and we need help to even realize what we ar doing is taboo. (Baal Shem Tov) A taboo is doing that which you know you shouldn’t do. In short a sin,… Read More »Three Times Wrong or Three Times Right, a World of Difference
