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5775 | Rabbi Dov Berl Wein
IMPUDENCE AND IMPOTENCE
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Not Washing Away One’s Personality
Ein Ayah Personality Development
5769 | Rabbi Yirmiyohu Kaganoff
Shidduchim and Loshon Hora
How should one ask and answer shidduch- related questions? How to ask and What not to tell?
Shlach Lecha Other Shiurim
5769 | Rabbi Mishael Dahan, ztvk”l
Humility
Being humble benefits the health. A person who pursues prestige destroys his health and ends up dying prematurely, for his life is nothing but misery and bitterness, anger and irritation. “Whoever seeks out honor, honor flees from him” (Eruvin 13b).
Emuna Anava - Humility
Iyar 5768 | Rabbi Chananya Malka
Days of the Omer and Refining Character Traits
Rabbi Akiva’s 24,000 students died during the Omer counting period. Why did they die precisely during these days? Is there any connection between the Torah commandments applying to the Omer period and the deaths of Rabbi Akiva’s students at this time?
Articles on Sfirat Ha'omer Other Shiurim
Iyar 5768 | Rabbi Yirmiyohu Kaganoff
Plagiarizing, Loshon Hora, and Employee Responsibility
Halachikly is there a Isur to Plagiarize? Am I obliged to stop someone from Plagiarizing?
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5762 | Rabbi Zalman Baruch Melamed
Fear of Sin - Punishment and Loftiness
Ideally, a person should distance himself from sin due to God's loftiness. How can man, God's own handiwork, even consider acting in opposition to the will of his Creator? Such fear, fear of God's loftiness, befits wise and enlightened individuals.
Humility, Holiness and Fearing Hashem Serving Hashem
Tuesday, 14 Elul 5767 | Rabbi Zalman Baruch Melamed
Fear of Sin - Punishment and Loftiness
Ideally, a person should distance himself from sin due to God's loftiness. How can man, God's own handiwork, even consider acting in opposition to the will of his Creator? Such fear, fear of God's loftiness, befits wise and enlightened individuals.
Humility, Holiness and Fearing Hashem Serving Hashem
Monday, 8 Menachem Av 5767 | Rabbi Zalman Baruch Melamed
51. Sanctity
Sanctity is the highest rung on the ladder of desired character traits: Torah leads to caution, caution to alacrity, alacrity to cleanliness, cleanliness to abstinence, abstinence to purity, purity to piety, piety to humility, to fear of sin, to sanctity.
Humility, Holiness and Fearing Hashem Serving Hashem
Sivan 5762 | Rabbi Zalman Baruch Melamed
49. The Components of Humility
A person should hate possessing authority but not avoid positions of authority. One should accept such positions with a desire to serve the public, not to control the public. Hence the sages tell us to “love labor and hate authority.”
Humility, Holiness and Fearing Hashem Anava - Humility
Rabbi Zalman Baruch Melamed
48. Acquiring Humility
Acquiring humility is one of the peaks in the development of a person's personality, for it covers all aspects of an individual's behavior. If one truly wishes to acquire humility, he must train himself to speak humbly, walk humbly, and sit humbly.
Anava - Humility Humility, Holiness and Fearing Hashem
Rabbi Zalman Baruch Melamed
47. The Distinction of Humility
The more talent and capacity a humble person possesses, the more humble he becomes. For example, Moses, the greatest of the great, was also the humblest of the humble: "And the man Moses was more humble than any other person on the face of the earth".
Anava - Humility Humility, Holiness and Fearing Hashem
Rabbi Zalman Baruch Melamed
46. Humble and Happy
It is important to realize that a humble person is not miserable and unhappy. Neither is a conceited person happy and blissful. To the contrary, it is humility that brings happiness and bliss, while pride leads a person to misery and discontent.
Humility, Holiness and Fearing Hashem Anava - Humility
Rabbi Zalman Baruch Melamed
45. Conceit and Divine Service
God said to Israel: I treasure you, for even as I bestow greatness upon you, you humble yourselves before me. Abraham said, "I am but earth and dust." Moses and Aaron said "What are we worth?" And King David said "I am not a man - I am but a worm."
Humility, Holiness and Fearing Hashem Anava - Humility
Adar 5676 | Rabbi Zalman Baruch Melamed
44. Tales of the Sages
Reading stories about the virtuous deeds of great rabbis is a most effective way to nurture desirable character traits. Parents who wish to instill in their children a love for the Torah should give them books on the lives of the sages of Israel.
Pathways in Personality Development
Adar 5676 | Rabbi Zalman Baruch Melamed
43. Cautiously Stringent
Pious individuals follow the more stringent rulings and sway clear of all doubt. However, it is precisely here that a truly pious person must be on guard. He must be careful that his stringent practices do not lead him to belittle the lenient rabbis.
Pathways in Personality Development
Adar 5676 | Rabbi Zalman Baruch Melamed
42. Fitting Admonition
When it comes to pious additions to the commandments, practices which are likely to cause ordinary people to laugh, and thus transgress, it is certainly more proper and pious to refrain from them altogether, for these practices are not obligatory.
Pathways in Personality Development
Rabbi Zalman Baruch Melamed
41. Not Overly Pious
: Pious behavior can be misleading. Though a certain act may appear virtuous at first glance, its ramifications may really be very undesirable. A person must weigh his actions carefully – not to be overly pious, yet not to refrain from piety altogether.
Pathways in Personality Development
Shvat 5767 | Rabbi Elyakim Levanon
Loving All God's Creatures
Judaism teaches us that a person cannot put on "performances." Such behavior might be effective momentarily, yet it will not yield fruit for long. To fulfill the commandment to love God's creatures, a person must feel love for them in his heart.
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Shvat 5767 | Rabbi Zalman Baruch Melamed
40. The Lofty Service of the Pious
True, the behavior of a pious person is thoroughly virtuous and refined, yet his real greatness lies in the fact that his intentions are entirely altruistic; a pious person is concerned with the welfare of the whole generation, the entire nation.
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