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In today's Hayom Yom (courtesy of Kehot Publication Society) on the Chayenu app:
At a Farbrengen during the days of Sefira (at some time in the years 5651-5653, 1891-1893) someone said to my father, "The Alter Rebbe's chassidim were always keeping count." My father took a great liking to the saying, and he commented: "That idea characterizes man's Avoda.
The hours must be 'counted hours,' then the days will be 'counted days.' When a day passes one should know what he has accomplished and what remains yet to be done... In general, one should always see to it that tomorrow should be much better than today."
In today's Geulah (courtesy of Kehot Publication Society) on the Chayenu app:
We all possess an element of "non-good." Why, the scapegoat (representing evil, banished) to Azazeil was actually a service in the Beit Hamikdash!
A (physical) created being inevitably has a negative element, but we must banish that evil to a "desolate land."
In today's Hayom Yom (courtesy of Kehot Publication Society) on the Chayenu app:
"[Whoever expands on the narrative of the exodus from Egypt,] this person (lit- 'Harei Zeh') is to be praised (Haggada)." The Hebrew word Zeh ("this") indicates a state of holiness, as in the phrase, "Here, this ('Zeh') is our G-d." Whoever expands on the narrative of the exodus, his "Zeh," his element of holiness, is enriched.
Some inspiration from today's Tanya (courtesy of Kehot Publication Society) on the Chayenu app
From today's Tanya (courtesy of Kehot Publication Society) on the Chayenu app:
In the Messianic era, G-dliness will be revealed to all the nations of the world - and in this state lies the fulfillment of the purpose for which this world was created.
From today's Tanya (courtesy of Kehot Publication Society) on the Chayenu app
In today's Hayom Yom (courtesy of Kehot Publication Society) on the Chayenu app:
My father said: Truth is the middle path. An inclination to the right, to be overly stringent with one-self and find faults or sins not in accord with the truth, or an inclination to the left, to be overly indulgent, covering one's faults or being lenient in demands of Avoda out of self-love - both these ways are false.
In today's Hayom Yom (courtesy of Kehot Publication Society) on the Chayenu app:
From my father's Sichot: It is a magnificent gift of G-d to merit an innate sense - a "feel" - for doing kindness to another, to derive deep pleasure from it. This can develop to the point that one cherishes the other more than oneself.
He may find many explanations as to why he deserves his own tribulations, G-d forbid, but for him to do so with regard to another's suffering is absolutely impossible.
In today's Hayom Yom (courtesy of Kehot Publication Society) on the Chayenu app:
The Alter Rebbe once said:
Rashi's commentary on Chumash is the "wine of Torah." It opens the heart and uncovers one's core essence of love and fear (of G-d).
Rashi's commentary on Talmud opens the mind and uncovers the core-essence intellect.
In today's Hayom Yom (courtesy of Kehot Publication Society) on the Chayenu app:
There are two sorts of statutes:
a) Statutes the create life; and
b) Statutes created by life.
Human laws are created by life, so they vary from land to land according to circumstances. The Almighty's Torah is a G-dly law that creates life. G-d's Torah is the Torah of truth, the same in all places, at all times. Torah is eternal.
In today's Daily Tanya (courtesy of Kehot Publication Society) on the #Chayenu app:
For created beings, the revelation of the creative power contained in G-d's word represents the greatest possible change - the passage from nonexistence to existence, since they come into being only when the Divine word begins to actually create worlds, at which time it clothes itself in these worlds to give them life.
In other words, creation is a Divine manifestation. Take a look around you and find the Divinity within all things.
In today's Hayom Yom (courtesy of Kehot Publication Society) on the Chayenu app:
In these days especially, when by G-d's kindness we stand at the threshold of redemption, we must make every conceivable effort to strengthen every facet of our religion.
Mitzvot must be observed B'hidur, with "beauty," beyond minimal requirements. Customs must be kept scrupulously, nothing compromised.
It is a Mitzva and duty of every Rabbi to inform his congregation that the current tribulations and agonies are the "birth-pangs of Mashiach." G-d is demanding that we return to Torah and Mitzvot, that we not hinder the imminent coming of our righteous Mashiach.
