Sublime

A medieval sage, Rabbi Asher ben Yehiel (Rosh, 1250?–1327), insists that this mitzvah of receiving people warmly applies not just to one-on-one encounters but also to the way we carry ourselves in public. “Let not your face be angry toward passersby,” he says, “but receive them with a friendly countenance.”48 How we comport ourselves in the world m

Our sages say that a person's livelihood is a greater miracle than the splitting of the Red Sea (Pesachim 118a).

Rabbi Zusya, when he was an old man, said, "In the coming world, they will not ask me: `Why were you not Moses?' They will ask me: Why were you not Zusya?"'=

Creator, that one should accustom himself to set a designated hour every day to express his words before Hashem Yisburach in his native tongue specifically. And everything that is with (-on) his heart he should converse before Hashem Yisburach, be it to ask for pardon and forgiveness on the past, be it to entreat for the future that Hashem Yisburac

Bittul, the opposite of yeshus, means nullifying the self. But it does not mean crushing one’s personality; it means dedicating oneself to a higher purpose than self, and constantly striving to achieve that purpose. When a person is buttel, he functions without being aware of himself.

When you speak to God, make it a habit to express the longing and yearning you feel to extricate yourself from evil and attain true

person who has to have contact with non-Jews for business purposes must be very careful to see that his sanctity as a Jew is not affected. It is dangerously easy to get caught in their net, God forbid. He should always be steadfast and remind himself constantly of the holiness which is his heritage as a Jew. He should pray to God not to be influenc

other words, the more a person trusts in Hashem and truly believes that Hashem is the Provider, the less he or she needs to work.