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The Bostoner Rebbe of New York’s Mashal

Toras HaEmes.2.9 - How to (Possibly) Get to Lishma

Toras HaEmes.2.8 - What is Lishma and Why Does Adding Another Intention Matter?

Toras HaEmes.2.7 - Desire for Reward is Also NOT Lishma! (Not for the faint of heart!)

Toras HaEmes.2.6 - A Continued Point from Last Mussar Minute

Toras HaEmes.2.5 - Upending Hashem’s Intentions for Our Mitzvah Performance

Toras HaEmes.2.4 - Lo Lishma Even if the Intent is for a Different Good Thing!

Toras HaEmes.2.3 - Lo Lishma Removes the Emes of the Mitzvah

Toras HaEmes.2.2 - Another Lo Lishma: Following One’s Natural Inclination

Toras HaEmes.2.1 - Lishma and Lo Lishma as it Relates to Emes and Sheker

Toras HaEmes.1.19 - Practical Things to Consider in the Avodah of Emes

Toras HaEmes.1.18 - Sheker as it Relates to Doing Teshuva

3 More Vignettes from the Bostoner Rebbe

Toras HaEmes.1.17 - Honesty Doesn’t Start from our Words but from Our Hearts

Toras HaEmes.1.16 - Doing a Sheker Action Can Sometimes be Emes!

Toras HaEmes.1.15 - To Ask for Spiritual Attainments You First Need to Appreciate Spirituality

Toras HaEmes.1.14 - Gratitude to Hashem Requires Full Development of Hakaras Hatov

Toras HaEmes.1.13 - How Much Gratitude We Feel When Someone Does Us a Favor

2 Stories Out of the Bostoner Rebbe’s Biography (Artscroll)

Toras HaEmes.1.12 - How to Remove Ego from Our Tefilla

Toras HaEmes.1.11 - How to Make Sure Our Davening Isn’t Sheker

Toras HaEmes.1.10 - Fear of Hashem is an Expression of Our Emunah Which Needs to Be Acquired

Toras HaEmes.1.9 - Emes in Our Interpersonal Actions

Toras Avrohom.Toras HaEmes.1.8 - Is “Lo Lishma” and Sheker the Same?

Toras Avrohom.Toras HaEmes.1.7 - 2 People Saying the Same Thing - One Could be Emes the Other Sheker

Toras HaEmes..1.6 - Even the Men of the Great Assembly Agree in Logic with Jeremiah and Daniel

Toras Avrohom.Toras HaEmes.1.5 - Even If It’s True, It’s Not Fully True To Say It, If You Don’t Feel

Toras Avrohom.Toras HaEmes.1.4 - One Time Lack of Consistency is Also Considered Lack of Emes

Toras Avrohom.Toras HaEmes.1.3 - Even a Doubt About a Talmid Chocham’s Heart Would Exclude Him

Toras Avrohom.Toras HaEmes.1.2 - A Talmid Chocham Whose Actions and Inner Desires Don’t Match

But I Thought You Said You Were a Teacher

Toras HaEmes.1.1 - When Our Inner Ratzon and Outer Action Don’t Match Page 293 in Toras Avrohom

Torah and Tefilla.1.15 - Intellect (Sechel) Requires Being Unencumbered From the Physical

Torah and Tefilla.1.14 - Explanation of Chayei Sha’ah vs. Chayei Olam

Torah and Tefilla.1.13 - How Far the Notion of Chayei Sha’ah (Temporary) Goes

2 Stories: R Shraga Feivel and Rabbi Mandel

R’ Yisroel Salanter’s Yahrzeit - 25th of Shevat

Torah and Tefilla.1.12 - Studying Torah and the Removal of Our Limited Scope of the World

Torah and Tefilla.1.11 - Enjoyment in Torah and Enjoyment Through Clarity in Our Lives

Torah and Tefilla.1.10 - (The Whole) Torah as the Ratzon Hashem

Torah and Tefilla.1.9 - Once the Middos Are In Place a Person Can Understand the Ratzon Hashem

Mussar Story: A Reframe of the Chasam Sofer

Torah and Tefilla.1.8 - First Fix Middos and Then the Torah Study Will “Work”

Torah and Tefilla.1.7 - The Attitude of One Who Studies Torah

Torah and Tefilla.1.6 - Removing the Animal Part of Our Relationship to the Material

Torah and Tefilla.1.5 - The “Problem” of Being too Spiritual While Davening

Torah and Tefilla.1.4 - Shifting our Attitudes About the Physical to Pray at the Highest Levels

Mussar Story of the Chasam Sofer - Rav Moshe Sofer zt’l

Torah and Tefilla.1.3 - Our Spiritual Pursuits Also Need Hashem’s Help

Torah and Tefilla.1.2 - Proper Prayer Rids Us of Bad Middos

Torah and Tefilla.1.1 - Page 286 - True Tefilla is an Expression of our Emunah

Toras Chesed.1.6 - All the Avos Were About Chesed

Toras Chesed.1.5 - All types of chesed to everyone…like Hashem

Toras Chesed.1.9 - Bringing the Lesson into Our Lives

Toras Chesed.1.8 - Eternity Buried in the Now

Toras Chesed.1.7 - The Tribes Each Developed Something Unique in Themselves Which Affected Doros

Toras Chesed.1.4 - Our Responsibility Reveals What We Can Become

Toras Chesed.1.3 - Recognizing How Great a Human is Will Impact Our Chesed Towards Them

Toras Chesed.1.2 - Being a Part of the Mussar of Slobodka

Toras Hasechel.1.5 Why the nations pre-Sinai were held accountable

Toras Hasechel.1.4. One is Obligated by their intellect

Toras Hasechel 1.3. Really Seems Unfair that Nations Should Lose Out So Much!

Toras Hasechel.1.2 It seems unfair that generation of flood was so harshly punished

Toras Hasechel.1.1.page 256_Does Hashem Punish Without Warning?

Kerestir - Relating to Others

2 more stories from Kerestir

A Mussar Story about R’ Shayele

Mussar Minute (Trailer)

Toras Avrohom.Toras Chessed.1.1. Page 141