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37 articles- Moshe Taught Klal Yisroel How to be HumbleThe Ohr L’Shamayim and Zohar explain how Moshe Rabbeinu taught the Jewish leaders that true greatness comes from humility and viewing oneself as ayin.
- Accepting Hashem’s Ways With LoveRav Avrohom Dov of Chmelnik explains how the word matos teaches us to accept financial downturns and life's challenges with love and faith in Hashem's will.
- Thinking Before TalkingThe Ben Ish Chai explains the importance of using the mind and heart to contemplate one's words and vows before speaking to ensure they can be fulfilled.
- One Who Keeps His Word Has Power in His MouthExplore how keeping one's word and upholding the signs of Bris Milah, Tefillin, and Shabbos grants a person's speech the power to influence both worlds.
- The Words of the Vilna Gaon Were FulfilledA miraculous story of the Vilna Gaon whose throat ailment was healed by the power of his own words spoken years earlier to a desperate widow.
- Glorifying HashemRav Avrohom Chaim of Mikoliov explains that one should glorify Hashem for successes while taking personal responsibility for failures based on the word neder.
- Saved in the Merit of Shemiras HalashonA powerful story of a man who found salvation from his personal struggles by committing to learn the laws of Shemiras Halashon and avoiding talk during davening
- More Severe than the Three Cardinal SinsThe Chida explains why lashon hara is considered more severe than the three cardinal sins and how it prolongs the current exile compared to previous ones.
- Distances a Person From HashemThe Ohr Hachaim Hakadosh teaches that nothing distances a person from their Creator as much as the sin of lashon hara.
- All Tzaros are a Result of Lashon HaraSefer Marpeh Lashon quotes the Shlah Hakadosh explaining that all troubles since the creation of the world are caused by the sin of lashon hara.
- Guarding the Tongue is a Segulah for WealthRav Chaim Palagi explains that avoiding lashon hara is a segulah for wealth, while speaking it leads to poverty, based on Sefer Tochachos Mussar.
- Whether or Not One’s Prayers are Accepted Depends on How he SpeaksSefer Ye’aros Devash warns that the acceptance of one's prayers and Torah study depends on maintaining a clean tongue free from lashon hara and improper speech.
- The Connection Between Shemiras Halashon and MezuzahThe Chasam Sofer explains how the mezuzah on a doorpost symbolizes the need to sanctify the mouth, the door to the body, through careful speech and holiness.
- The Shechinah is in Golus When We Don’t Guard Our TonguesThe Kamarna Rov reveals how improper speech and lashon hara cause the Shechinah to remain in exile by allowing evil forces to seize one's prayers.
- The Punishment for Speaking BadlyThe Kamarna Rov warns that speaking lashon hara transfers one's mitzvos to the victim and results in the speaker receiving the victim's sins and losing Olam Hab
- The Reward for Guarding One’s SpeechExplore the immense spiritual rewards of guarding one's speech, including divine revelation and merit, based on Rabenu Yona, the Yalkut, and Midrashic sources.
- Atoning for SinsThe Ben Ish Chai explains how judging fellow Jews favorably leads to divine mercy and the forgiveness of one's own sins by silencing prosecuting angels.
- The Good Parts of the MouthRav Bunim of Peshischa explains how the healing power of a tzadik's speech necessitates that words also possess the strength to wound like a sword.
- Permitted InformingThe Ruzhiner Rebbe explains how informing on a fellow Jew is permitted when revealing their hidden righteousness and humility for the sake of Klal Yisroel.
- Only Wealth That Comes From Hashem Will LastA Torah teaching from Parshas Matos on how true wealth, wisdom, and strength only endure when granted by Hashem through the merit of Torah study.
- Hashem Grants WealthA Torah perspective on how wealth and success are granted solely by Hashem, featuring insights from the Medrash and Rav Shimon ben Chalafta.
- Mussar from Moshe RabenuThe Chidushei Harim explains why the tribes of Gad and Reuven waited for Moshe Rabenu's rebuke before offering to join the war for Eretz Yisroel.
- Everything is From HashemA teaching from Sefer Tiferes Shmuel on Parshas Masai regarding the necessity of emunah and bitachon to merit salvation and the holiness of Eretz Yisroel.
- Avoiding Laziness and Embracing EnthusiasmAn exploration of how overcoming laziness (Refidim) and embracing enthusiasm (zerizus) protects a person from the yeitzer hara and leads to Torah study.
- If There is No Torah, There is No WaterAn exploration of the connection between Torah study and physical water based on the Shach's commentary on the travels of Bnei Yisroel in the desert.
- One Can Learn 200 Words Every MinuteThe Chofetz Chaim explains that a person can speak 200 words of Torah per minute, creating thousands of defending angels through the mitzvah of speech.
- Legions of Angels Created by Each MitzvahThe Ye’aros Devash explains how learning Torah l’shma and performing mitzvos creates legions of angels to protect a person from harm.
- When One Stops Learning, He is Beset by DesiresA discussion on how ceasing Torah study leads to being overcome by worldly desires, based on the journey from Sinai to Kivros Hataavah.
- This World is Like an EntrancewayRav Yitzchok of Vorka explains how viewing this world as a mere entranceway to the World to Come helps one avoid the spiritual dangers of worldly desires.
- No Need to HideRav Chaim Palagi explains how avoiding worldly desires and living simply allows a person to live without fear of creditors or spiritual harm.
- If Moshe Had Entered the Land, They would Have Entered Gan EdenAn exploration of how Moshe Rabenu entering Eretz Yisroel would have annulled the yeitzer hara for idol worship and brought Klal Yisroel into Gan Eden.
- Unity Banishes FearThe Chasam Sofer explains how Jewish unity (achdus) serves as a spiritual protection that banishes fear and prevents divine punishment.
- One Who Gives Tzedakah Merits WealthAn exploration of how distributing tzedakah beyond one's requirements, combined with Torah study, leads to the merit of wealth as hinted in Parshas Masai.
- His Blessings are FulfilledA story of the Baal Shem Tov and R' Shabsi Meir of Brod, illustrating how the merit of tzedakah can bring salvation and fulfill blessings for those in need.
- Kol Yisroel AreivimThree profound explanations of the principle Kol Yisroel Areivim Zeh Lazeh as taught by the Magid of Mezheritch to the Baal Hatanya.
- Understanding the Neshama of a JewA story from the Lubavitcher Rebbes illustrating that every Jew is priceless, though it takes an expert to see the true value of their soul.
- Lachmei Mordechai Charity AppealAn urgent appeal for Lachmei Mordechai, a charity providing food packages, meat, and fish to over 150 widows and 400 orphans in Beit Shemesh and across Israel.
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