Tag Archives: gratitude
Grateful Footsteps
Here is a tool for greatness: Watch a truly righteous person very carefully and observe what he does in order to emulate him. Today, think of three great people that you know, heard of, or have read about. What can … Continue reading
I’m Younger Than That Now
When I was seventeen It was a very good year It was a very good year for small town girls And soft summer nights We’d hide from the lights On the village green When I was seventeen “It Was a … Continue reading
Love is a Commandment
Today’s daf discusses the halachos of one who gives a gift. The great importance of gratitude cannot be overemphasized. Rabbeinu Bachaya famously writes that one who fails to appreciate what others have done for him—using some trite excuse to explain … Continue reading
I’m Alive!
“Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.” -Dr. Seuss I admit, thank, surrender before You, to Your essential being, O King, He who speaks the world … Continue reading
Wonder
Wonder or radical amazement is the chief characteristic of the religious man’s attitude toward history and nature. One attitude is alien to his spirit: taking things for granted, regarding events as a natural course of things. To find an approximate … Continue reading
For God So Loved
When this question reached the Alter of Kelm, zt”l, he explained quite decisively. “Two nations were forever distanced from Hashem due to their lack of hakoras hatov for the kindness of Avraham towards Lot, as the Ramban explains. Consider this, … Continue reading
Abundant is Your Faithfulness
This blog has been a long time in the making, perhaps as long as two years. I’ve been searching for something. I’ve been looking for a road. I’ve been staring into the dark abyss looking for even the faintest glimmer … Continue reading
