Lessons on Humility, Holiness and Fearing Hashem

articles on Humility, Holiness and Fearing Hashem

Rabbi Zalman Baruch Melamed
Rabbi Eliezer Melamed
Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu
Rabbi Yosef Tzvi Rimon
Rabbi David Dudkevitz
Rabbi Moshe Eliya
Rabbi Yehoshua Shapira
Rabbi Ovadia Yosef Shilt"a
Rabbi Uzi Kalchaim zt"l
Rabbi Shabbtai Sabbato

articles on Humility, Holiness and Fearing Hashem

Stress Test

for most of us, life and its petty annoyances, problems large and small and constant stress tests.

Love and Devotion to God

One who loves God cannot bear the desecration of His name

Conceit and Divine Service

God said to Israel: I treasure you, for even as I bestow greatness upon you, you humble yourselves before me

The Spirit Always Prevails

in truth, it is the spirit that always triumphs.

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.

Rabbi Zalman Baruch Melamed | 5762

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.

Rabbi Zalman Baruch Melamed | Tuesday, 14 Elul 5767

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.

Rabbi Zalman Baruch Melamed | Monday, 8 Menachem Av 5767

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.”

Rabbi Zalman Baruch Melamed | Sivan 5762

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.

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".

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.

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."

Rabbi Zalman Baruch Melamed

Chalav Akum – Non-Jewish Milk

Rabbi Avraham Rosenthal | Kislev 14 5781

Too High to be Connected to People on the Ground

condensed from Ein Ayah, Shabbat 9:128-129

condensed from Ein Ayah, Shabbat 9:128-129

Various Rabbis | Shvat 29 5780

Engagement Parties during the Three Weeks

Is it permitted to make an engagement party during the Three Weeks (i.e., before Rosh Chodesh Av)?

Rabbi Daniel Mann | Tamuz 18 5779

Ruach Ra’ah

Chapter eight-part two

Chapter eight-part two

Rabbi Eliezer Melamed | 5775

A Layman's Guide to some Halachic Aspects

What do I need to bring to a wedding? Who escorts the bride and groom down the isle? Finally, a short step by step birds eye view of the Jewish wedding.

Rabbi Yirmiyohu Kaganoff | 5773

The Laws of Tumas Meis

When the Beis Hamikdash is rebuilt, bimheirah beyameinu, the laws of tumah will affect us all, since we will be required to be tahor in order to enter the Beis Hamikdash, to eat korbanos and maaser sheini, and in order to separate challah and terumah.

Rabbi Yirmiyohu Kaganoff | 5772

Bedeviled by Stirring Events

or Some Insights on the Melacha of Losh

Some Insights on the Melacha of Losh. Can one mix hard boiled eggs on Shabbat? Various approaches.

Rabbi Yirmiyohu Kaganoff | 5770

In Search of the True Nesher

Rabbi Yirmiyohu Kaganoff | 5770

The Nine Days

Various Halachot of the Nine Days.

Rabbi Yirmiyohu Kaganoff | 5769

Customs of the Three Weeks

The three weeks that begin on the night of the Seventeenth of Tammuz and continue until the Ninth of Av are days of national woefulness. The sages therefore advise being especially careful during this period, for it is a time designated for calamity.

Rabbi Eliezer Melamed | Sivan 5768

The Laws Relating to Converts

The laws relating to Jewish converts are most astounding. Despite the criticism directed at the Jewish people on the grounds that Judaism is racist, the Torah teaches us that any non-Jew who earnestly seeks to join the Jewish people may do so.

Rabbi Eliezer Melamed

A Woman's Obligation to Pray

According to most authorities, women are no less obligated to pray than men. Therefore, they must pray “Amida” in the morning and the afternoon (“Shacharit” and “Mincha”). The evening Amida prayer (“Maariv”), on the other hand, is voluntary.

Rabbi Eliezer Melamed | 5766