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You choose your character traits
SimchaMinute by Rabbi Avigdor Miller

Middos are considered a permanent, unending form of bechira, of free will. Just as we have free will to choose to do certain things, our character traits are our free will; that’s what you want to do, whether you express it or not.

And therefore it’s of the utmost importance for a person to work on his middos, to change his inner traits of character.

— Working on the Middos (#658)
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What Good Is Romance?

Romance doesn’t make happiness in marriage, because it’s something that can’t endure. It’s only imaginary happiness, it’s only a functional thing. As soon as the purpose is accomplished then romance declines, it goes down the drain.

— Bitachon (#32)
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Bringing Out the Best In Your Spouse

From Ideal Marriage, Tikun Olam (#684) by Rabbi Avigdor Miller

It’s not easy to become rich, it’s not easy to become famous. Anything good requires work. And of course the sheleimus (perfection) of marriage requires labor. But it should be understood beforehand, that’s your purpose in life.

How important it is that before the chupah the chosson and kallah become aware that their purpose is to bring out the best from each other, which means that they’re going to have fulfillment in life. Not fulfillment of good times, of romance, like people sometimes superficially think, but fulfillment in what Hashem made the world for, and the world was made to change your middos more than anything else.

All the mitzvos are for the purpose of changing your middos. You must hold back your desire to eat if there’s a concern in kashrus. How many times do couples have to restrain themselves when there’s some question in hilchos nashim? How many times do people have to give up certain pleasures in going places because it’s not permitted? Lo nitna mitzvos elah l’tzarif nehenas habriyos: the purpose of mitzvos is to refine people, to purify them. Mitzvos are for that purpose; you’re saying no to yourself.

When a woman is in a bad mood and she wants to say something nasty to her husband, if she remembers her purpose in life, she’ll say no, I won’t say that word. I’ll just say words of encouragement to my husband when he comes home from work. He has plenty of excitement at the office; why should he have more at home? Therefore she soothes him with words that are like healing medicine on his spirit when he comes home.

When a husband comes home, he knows his wife is busy all day with the children and her nerves are frayed, frazzled. So he doesn’t complain and criticize, instead he compliments her how well things are being managed at home. Little by little these people are improving their own characters and they’re bringing out the best in each other.
All the mitzvos are for the purpose of changing your middos

Climb the Ladder: Make an extra effort today to express something positive to your spouse (or another person who is important in your life
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What Is "Spiritual Perfection?"

Spiritual perfection is more than merely knowing of Hashem’s wisdom and kindliness, but requires especially seeing and experiencing His wisdom and His kindliness. By utilizing our Free-Will existence here to gain the most concrete form of Awareness through our senses, we achieve the True Knowledge (’Daas’) for which we were created. “You will see it” while you are yet alive.

— Journey into Greatness
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כִּי לֹא יִרְאַנִי הָאָדָם וָחָי (שמות ל"ג, כ')
What WE Cannot Know About Hashem

From Ohr Avigdor Shaar Bitachon by Rabbi Avigdor Miller

Everybody will be rewarded according to what he deserves. An unstated reason for the lack of discussion of the World to Come in the Torah is related to the fact that there is no explanatory discussion of Hashem in the Torah. This is because human beings are unable to comprehend or describe Him. We just know that He is there. He is always around.

What is He? What does He look like? That’s is not for us to say, as it says, “No human can see My face and live” (Shemos 33:20). Even Moshe Rabbeinu wasn’t capable of seeing Hashem while he was alive.

The World to Come is synonymous with Hashem. It represents a state of unearthly happiness of being together with Hashem. If you can’t describe Hashem, you can’t describe the World to Come either. Therefore, Moshe Rabbeinu wasn’t told what the World to Come looks like, because he couldn’t understand it while he was alive. All we can know about Hashem is that He has certain attributes of affecting His relationship with mankind.

For example, we know that He loves His nation Yisrael (Birchos Krias Shema). We also know that Hashem is righteous and acts with righteous justice. As for the World to Come, it says in the Gemara (Brachos 17a), tzaddikim don’t eat or drink in the World to Come. They sit with their crowns upon their heads and enjoy gazing upon the splendor of the Shechinah (Divine Presence). But exactly what that means it’s impossible to explain, and therefore there’s no purpose in discussing more about it.
We are unable to comprehend or describe Him — We just know that He is there
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Happiness Is the Oil in the Machine

From Spirit of Matter (#16) by Rabbi Avigdor Miller

Hashem gives us this world happiness. He gives us peace, He gives us good health. He’s not paying us off. But He’s encouraging us. It’s like a man who has a machine, a valuable machine that’s turning out precious products. He’s standing over his machine with an oil dropper, and he drops drops of oil to lubricate the machine so it should work more efficiently. “schar mitzvah mitzvah” (Avos), the payment for a mitzvah is opportunity to do more mitzvos.

When you give charity, when you give tzedaka, Hashem promises He’ll give you more money. That’s not reward, because if you get more money you’ll have an incentive to give more charity. The gemara says “rodef tzedaka v’chesed yimtza chaim tzedaka v’kavod — If a man pursues tzedaka, charity, and kindliness to other people, he’s going to find life, tzedaka and honor." What does that mean?

If a man likes to give money for good, Torah causes, he likes to give to yeshivos, Hashem is going to encourage him. First of all, He’ll give him life. Instead of seventy years of giving charity, He’ll give him eighty years, ninety years: that’s encouragement. It’s like a worker who works overtime for his boss. He produces more. So that generous person will get more and more opportunities to give tzedaka. Hashem sends him more money and more opportunities, and he’ll give more and more.

​And kavod: he’ll get more honor. Since he’s a charitable man, Hashem gives him influence, and he goes around asking people to donate. Everybody respects him, and they give.

But when a man is in a hurry to get paid in this world, that’s a different story. It’s a misfortune because this world doesn’t have enough money to cash in the check from the bank of Olam Haba.
The payment for a mitzvah is opportunity to do more mitzvos

Climb the Ladder: Think of three of the material gifts Hashem has blessed you with. How can you use each of them to further your avodas (service of) Hashem?
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Where May You Find The Shechina (Divine Presence)?

The Shechina dwells in every Jewish home. Forget about the addresses, the telephone numbers that list all together the gentile home, black homes, Chinese homes, and L'havdil, Jewish homes. Forget about that. The Jewish home is something that's not found anywhere else except in the words of Hashem.

-- Perfection in Marriage
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Bechina: Miracles of the Eye

From Awake, My Glory ​by Rabbi Avigdor Miller

In the retina of the human eye there are 100 million light-receptors. However, they are attached to only one million nerve endings, which means that for every 100 light-receptor cells there is only one nerve by which they send their messages to the brain. Therefore in order to travel by way of the nerve to the brain, a light-sensation must be strong enough to activate 100 light-receptors. This arrangement prevents constant bombardment of the brain by every negligible light-sensation. Are such arrangements the result of accident?

​The eye is a color camera. It focuses automatically according to the distance of the object. The lens adjusts its degree of curvature as necessary.

​The eye turns in the direction which is needed. The two eyes function like two perfectly synchronised cameras to form one picture in the brain. The iris controls the width of the entering light beam to admit more or less light as circumstances require.

​The pressure of the eye liquor is always precisely enough to maintain the proper shape of the eyeball. The lens is a living tissue which miraculously metamorphosed into transparent material which serves more efficiently than the best man-made product.

Every component is of exquisite precision, and is exactly suited for its specific function. The retina, eye liquor, cornea, pupil, iris, eye-muscles, lens, nerves, sclera and others, all of different and especially-composed materials, all developed from the same bit of original embryonic tissue.
Every component is of exquisite precision, and is exactly suited for its specific function
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ליין קודם דאס
אויך דאס
From Improving the World (#792)

​Q: Why does the attraction between husband and wife continue even after they have children?

A: The answer is Hakodosh Boruch Hu needs that union. First of all, it is of utmost importance that a family should continue even after children grow up and leave the house, because they have to look for guidance to their parents. It’s the two parents together that cause the leadership of the family.

We cannot estimate the value of an old grandfather and old grandmother of the family; inestimable value! It’s an anchor for an entire family: “what would Abba say?” “What will Ima say?” The fact that the father and mother are still around causes a certain control over the behavior of the children. Very important, very important.

Besides guidance, besides consolation, they lean on the parents many times for advice and therefore it’s important that the father and mother should remain together. So Hakodosh Boruch Hu causes the attraction between husband and wife to continue always, down to the end in order to preserve the family.

However, we should not overlook the fact that the union of husband and wife is a tremendous tikkun for themselves. Every additional day that you live together successfully means that much more perfection of character. It’s never easy to get along with someone; always requires a certain exertion of the soul. Therefore Hakodosh Boruch Hu said don’t think you're finished with the tikkun by merely raising a family, the tikkun of yourself is extremely important. The fact that they are together forces them to continue to adjust to each other.

Sometimes what two old people living together accomplish in their last days is even more important than what they accomplished in the earlier days of their lives. Like it says “toiv acharis dovor meireishisoi — the way you end [your life] is more important than the way you begin” your life. Sometimes you began your life with discord, with arguing, constant recrimination, but near the end of your life you learned how to keep your mouth closed, you learn how to be tolerant to that other person’s idiosyncrasies, you learn how to take it, to swing with the punches. In your last days you can achieve more in perfection of character then you did all of your life.
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יִשָּׁקֵנִי מִנְּשִׁיקוֹת פִּיהוּ כִּי טוֹבִים דֹּדֶיךָ מִיָּיִן

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Torah Is the Sweetness of Life

From All Is Happiness (#E-60) by Rabbi Avigdor Miller

The happiness of learning Torah is one of the forms of enjoying Olam Hazeh. You have to understand that: Torah is a great happiness. When they came to Har Sinai, and Hakadosh Baruch Hu began to speak, it was “Nafshi yatzah bidabor — My soul went out of me when he spoke” (Shir Hashirim). We perished; we had to be revived. It was a tremendous sweetness to hear the words of Hashem. Hashem’s Torah is the sweetness of life.

From then on, whenever you open a Chumash, try to gain a feeling “hanechemadim mizahav umipaz vdash vnofesh tzufim”: The Torah is sweeter than honey (Tehilim 19). Now Dovid Hamelech trained himself to have a geshmak (thrill) in Torah, to feel the pleasantness of Torah. Of course now we are far away from that concept, but we know that our neshamos are really happy with Torah. When people regale themselves with a feast of Torah, they should know that they’re enjoying Olam Hazeh, too.

Therefore we look back to Matan Torah and we say “Mi yishakeini minishikos pihu — Once more, you should kiss us with the kisses of his mouth — ki tovim dodecha miyain — because Your love [when You told us words of Torah] is better than any wine” of happiness of This World. Now not only Torah, however. Any form of shleimus, of perfection that we achieve in this world is a form of happiness.
Any perfection that we achieve is a form of happiness
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Ask Rabbi Miller: Overeating

Q: [How can a person acquire kedusha through eating] if eating too much is unhealthy?

A: Absolutely it’s unhealthy. If people felt that they would be injuring themselves they probably would abstain. What don’t people do for kedusha; don’t people fast for kedusha? So they also eat for kedusha. There are two considerations, what’s good for your body, what’s good for your soul.

In general you have to try to strike a happy medium and do what’s good for both. Sometimes, however, people fast in order to improve their character, and their poor body complains, “I have to suffer because you want to improve your character?” So you ask your body please cooperate with me because I have to do something for my neshama.

If you have to eat a seudas mitzvah like on Pesach night when it’s a mitzvah to eat, even though you don’t like some of the things, you would prefer to have other things, your body cooperates in order to help you achieve the mitzvah. The truth is the body gains kedusha thereby too, and the body is also no loser.

— Starting the Climb to Kedushah (#518)
The poor body complains, “I have to suffer because you want to improve your character?”"
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Inspiring Children
SimchaMinute by Rabbi Avigdor Miller

In the midbar their chief occupation was teaching the Torah to their children. They taught them all their history, all the nissim that they had seen. They described Matan Torah to their children constantly, and they inspired them, they inflamed them.

— The Home, Fountain of Torah (#967)
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From When We Were Young (#432):

"We see from the Gemara that money is one of the first things that a child learns to love in this world. There are a lot of things to this world. There are Olam Hazeh things. We can teach a child how good it is to breathe air. Isn’t that a funny thing, a silly thing? We can teach a child that it is fun to breath air. We don’t think so? It is because other things entered our mind previously.

There is an experiment how to prove to people how good it is to breathe air. It’s easy. Take a bucket of water and put our head into this bucket for three minutes and then while we are in the bucket, think how good it would be to take a breath of air. And then, when we get out of the bucket, we will understand what is being said.

The Gemara says for every breath we have to praise Hashem. Breathing is fun. It is happiness to breath, just to be on the street. We want a good time? Don’t eat cake. Don’t open the refrigerator. Just open the window and breathe deeply."
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ווינדער איבער ווינדער, דער דענדילייען (dandelion)

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Wonders upon wonders! (The Dandelion Part 2)
by Rabbi Avigdor Miller

When you give a puff on the dandelion seed ball, the parachutes detach themselves and float gracefully in the air. Each seed is hanging by a parachute of 30 waterproof hairs and it’s balanced perfectly. It moves with the slightest gust of wind and it travels. You see it’s no accident here. Here is a landing field where all these parachutes were parked. They are loosely attached to the launching pad and at a slight puff they detach and each one floats away to its mission. You see everything is being done with a plan and purpose.

Certainly we should continue to see these things and to learn from them there is a Creator. Could you make a parachute just by putting materials in a bag and shuffling it up and down for a million years? Would it turn into one dandelion parachute?

Imagine you had all the raw materials and let’s say you even have the hairs and you have the seeds. (That’s already a big thing) and you shake them together. Would they join with the launching pad and attach themselves lightly? You know they’re not attached too lightly, otherwise they’d fall down into the grass and get lost, even without a wind. And they’re
not attached too tightly, otherwise even when the wind blows they wouldn’t detach themselves. They don’t become loose until they’re ripe, and then they’re attached just loosely enough to maintain their position until a wind comes, and then they are detached and they float on the wind and carry away to their mission.

The jacket of the seed is so strong that even if it falls into the brine of the ocean it’s not permeated by the ocean salts. That seed remains viable until finally it lands on some seashore and it plants a dandelion in a foreign country.

— Avraham and Moshe: Two Books of the Torah (#330)
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הֲיֹסֵר גּוֹיִם הֲלֹא יוֹכִיחַ הַמְלַמֵּד אָדָם דָּעַת (תהלים צ"ד, י')

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Learning from the Events of the World

Hayoser goyim halo yochiach," when Hashem sends suffering on nations, isn’t He showing something? "Hamelamed adam daas," isn’t He teaching man daas (knowledge)? So when we hear about what happened in the world, it shouldn’t merely be "current events." Whatever happens in the world is enough to deceive other people, making them think it’s a world of gashmius (physicality). But for us the events of the world should teach us more knowledge of Hashem.

— Return to Hashem (#842)
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You Are Being Tested

From Living With Others (#R4) by Rabbi Avigdor Miller

Life is full of opportunities. That’s what Shlomo Hamelech is telling us in Koheles: “lakol zman” there is a time for every kind of perfection. One opportunity gives you things that the other opportunity won't give you. If you’ll make use of all of them, then you become the perfect man. That's why we’re in this world.

Here’s a man married to a woman, she is a nuisance. If he had a different wife, he tells himself, things would have been different. His partner is a nuisance; he tells himself if he had a different partner things would have been different. His father is a nuisance, if it was a different father, things would have been different. And so he goes through life with excuses and alibis; “If things had been different…”

Shlomo Hamelech comes along and says, this is the father for you, make use of him. He’s bothersome and if you succeed with him, that's your success. Be the best son you can to that father. To that wife, be the best husband you can, or to this husband be the best wife you can. To this mother-in-law, be the best daughter-in-law that you can. To these brothers and sisters, be the best brother you could be. That's why you have brothers and sisters; you are being tested. These are opportunities.

The man who understands this tries to be the best brother to his brothers and sisters and the best son to his father and mother. You don’t have them forever. The time comes and they're gone and the opportunity is gone forever; never again can you be a good son. And you will have lost one of the reasons for living.
There is a time for every kind of perfection
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Make Others Happy

From Improving the World (#792) by Rabbi Avigdor Miller

One of the big achievements we have to learn in this world is we have to make other people’s lives sweet, you have to make people’s lives happy. That’s one of the tikkunim (reparations) that make this world a better place because of your being here.

It’s an art that you have to study, you must master how to treat people in order to make a tikkun wherever you go. Instead of being a weed, a thorn, you have to be a flower in this world, with beautiful color and fragrance so passersby look and have pleasure from you.

“Hevei m'kabel es kol ha’adam b'seiver panim yafos — You should greet every man with a pleasant countenance.” (Avos)

As you pass people on the street, don’t pass them by with your head down, with a look from the corner of your eye. Make it your business to raise your face and shine your countenance upon them; like “Ya’er Hashem panav eilecha — Let Your countenance shine upon them” (Birchas Cohanim).

The Tomer Devorah says just like Hashem makes His countenance shine, your countenance should shine on people. Make it a principle, “Ya’er” your face should shine on people. And the gemara says, “hamalbin shinayim luchaveiroi — if you show your white teeth to your fellow man,” you smile to your fellow man, “tov mimashkeihu chalav — it’s better than giving him a drink of milk.”

In Slabodka, the Alter said suppose a man is sitting on the sidewalk with a big can of milk and every passer-by he ladles out for him a drink of milk, everybody would say it’s a public benefactor, a drink of milk, every passer-by, gives you energy, gives you nourishment.

There's a man that does better than that: for every passerby: he has a friendly smile. That’s better, it helps a person physically more than a drink of milk. It’s healthier for that person to see your smile than to get a drink of milk from you. Take seriously this function that they you have in the world: you must make the world a better place because you're here.
Instead of being a weed, a thorn, you have to be a flower
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Ask Rabbi Miller: Is the Mitzvah of Settling in Israel Applicable Today?

From Happiness (#79):

Q: Is the mitzvah of settling in Eretz Yisrael applicable today? If it is, who is obligated and who is exempt?

A: Whether the mitzvah of settling in Eretz Yisrael is applicable today is a question in the Rishonim (early Talmudic commentators). It’s a machlokes (dispute) whether there is such a mitzvah from the Torah or not. But everybody agrees it is a mitzvah d’rabbanan (rabbinic commandment). However this mitzvah d’rabbanan (or mitzvah d’oraisa) depends on the circumstances. It’s permissible to forsake Eretz Yisrael for great purposes such as learning Torah getting married.

If somebody is in chutz laaretz (outside of Israel) and he feels that he has a better neighborhood to bring up his children or he has a better opportunity to study Torah, whatever it is, it’s a mitzvah for him to stay right there. A long time ago a man asked Rabbi Yisrael Salanter if he should he go to Eretz Yisrael, and Rabbi Salanter said no. In those days Eretz Yisrael was kulo kodesh (totally holy), and still he said no. Listen to the reason of a gadol: He said, “Because you won’t be able to make a living there, and you’ll have to become a kabtzan (beggar) who goes and asks for nidavos (donations).” In other words, you’re not able to live that kind of a life. So he told him go someplace else where he could make a living.

So we see here is a psak (ruling) from a gadol (Torah sage) that we find certain exemptions from settling in Eretz Yisrael. I’m not able to tell you if the exemptions apply to you or to you, but there certainly is such a thing as exemptions. Because why didn’t the Chofetz Chaim go? The answer is he was needed. If somebody is needed that already is another exemption. So you see there are exemptions.
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Walk in the Footsteps of the Fathers
SimchaMinute by Rabbi Avigdor Miloler

The Mesillas Yesharim says in another sefer; we have to find time in our lives to ask ourselves the following question: "What did our avos (forefathers) do that Hashem chose them?"

We have to spend time everyday studying that. When we finally discover it, we have to say, “I also want to do the same”.

— Shir Hashirim #17 (#451)
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Is It More Important to Respect Your Parents or Your Wife?

From Holiness in Marriage (#740) by Rabbi Avigdor Miller:

Q: Is it more important to respect your parents or your wife?

A: If there is no conflict, you have to respect both. Of course parents are given a different kind of respect. However, if parents interfere in your marriage, it’s your duty to steer them out politely, diplomatically to steer them out and tell them please do not talk about my wife. Please. Put your foot down, don’t let them interfere.
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Al kain yaazov ish es aviv v’es imo v’davak b’ishto — Therefore, a man forsakes his father and his mother and he is loyal to his wife" (Bereishis 2:24). Your wife is like yourself, and therefore you cannot allow your parents to talk about her. Also, not one of the two should talk to their parents about their mate.

Never talk to your parents about your husband or about your wife, unless you can say compliments. If they’re going to say, "but, but," don’t say anything. Never complain about your spouse to your parents. That’s a major error. You’re bringing them into the picture. You and your wife, more or less will naturally get along; even if you’re not perfect., you’ll get along. But once there’s an input from the outside, that’s already artificial input, it’ll spoil the whole machinery of marriage.
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הִתְהַלֵּךְ לְפָנַי וֶהְיֵה תָמִים (בראשית י"ז, א')

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Be Perfect
SimchaMinute by Rabbi Avigdor Miller

Hashem made the world so each one of us should have an opportunity to gain perfection. Sheleimus (perfection) is what Hashem desires of everyone: to perfect his character. He gave us a body, He gave us a character, gave us middos (character traits), and He told us Get busy: “His'halech lefanai v’hayei tamim — Walk before me and become perfect.”

— Fundamental Principles (#E-201)
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זעה אויך דאס
From The Refutation Is At Hand (#2):

If we see that in a certain country there are wars, those wars are being waged only for our benefit. That’s the way we have to read the newspapers (if we read them at all). It’ll take a long time for this to percolate into our thick skulls. But that’s what we’re here for. That’s purpose of everything (not only pironius, suffering) that takes place in the world; it’s for us.

If you see trouble among, let’s say, the nations in Africa, in the Congo. They’re massacring entire tribes. You have the people in Vietnam trying to destroy each other. Or in North Korea or South Korea. Or if the Chinese or the communists are fighting against each other.

All these phenomena shouldn’t be lost upon us. One of the purposes is to make us think: Suppose we lived there. What suffering we would undergo. It’s a very great suffering to live in Vietnam. People are constantly in terror. In commotion. Their lives are ruined. And how many of them have been destroyed… how many have been maimed; orphaned, widowed; refugees. Plus all the attendant ills of war: epidemics…

​Everything that we see among the nations is for the purpose of chastising us and making us become better.
Everything that we see is for the purpose of making us better
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Make something out of yourself
SimchaMinute by Rabbi Avigdor Miller

We have to be tested, otherwise you can ask why do you need this world at all, we should all be in Gan Eden, together with the Shechina.

We see this is a world where difficulties are erected as barriers, as hurdles for us and that's our success: despite the difficulties, to succeed in making out of ourselves the best that we can.

— Waiting for Moshiach (#795)
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זֹבֵחַ תּוֹדָה יְכַבְּדָנְנִי (תהלים נ', כ"ג)

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אריב"ל כל הזובח את יצרו ומתודה עליו מעלה עליו הכתוב כאילו כיבדו להקב"ה בשני עולמים העולם הזה והעולם הבא דכתיב זובח תודה יכבדנני (סנהדרין מ"ג ע"ב)

Yielding for Hashem
SimchaMinute by Rabbi Avigdor Miller

"Kol hazoveiach es yitzro u’misvadeh alav — If a person slaughters his yetzer hara and says vidui..." He says, "Hashem, I am wrong, I didn’t do right and I’m asking You to forgive me," then "Zoveich toda yichabdeni — He honors Me."

The greatest honor a man could do for Hashem is to yield his own desires for Hashem... We are in this world to overcome our passions.

— Building the Nation and Building One’s Self (#E-051)
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SimchaMinute: Obstacles are opportunities

It’s such an urgent principle that our lives are devoted for the purpose of la’asois, of making something out of ourselves, that Hakodosh Boruch Hu has found it necessary to create obstacles in order to give us opportunities to overcome the obstacles.

That’s our reward — “Lefum tzaroh agro” (Avos) — according to the difficulty involved, so great is the reward accordingly.

— Seven Names of the Yetzer Hara (#E-110)
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