Inspirational

• Is learning about bitachon really necessary? Isn’t it enough to just believe in Hashem?
• What exactly is bitachon? What am I supposed to believe and feel?
• How will having bitachon bring me closer to Hashem? And how will my life change?
• How will being a ba’al bitachon make me into a happier, calmer person?
• I’m far from a tzaddik! How can I expect Hashem to help me when I don’t deserve it?

Rabbi Yechezkel Abramov, head of the network of Kesser Torah Kollelim and confidant of Gedolei Yisrael, has been teaching thousands of Jews the answers to these questions and many more like them. In his famous vaadim on Sha’ar HaBitachon of the Chovos HaLevavos, Rabbi Abramov draws on the classical Torah sources, peppering them with a trove of stories, advice, and inspiration from Gedolim throughout the generations. The result was the popular sefer, B’Emunaso Yichyeh, an eye-opening practical guide on how we can all connect to Hashem by implementing bitachon into our daily lives. Now, this masterpiece, in a revised and expanded edition, is available for the English-speaking public as well, giving countless others the ability to transform their lives by Becoming a Ba’al Bitachon.

“This is an amazing sefer, and it needs to be published!”

Rav Chaim Kanievsky ztz”l Learn More

Some of these lectures were delivered in Yeshiva Shaarei Torah to the students of the yeshiva. Others were given in various forums over the years. What unites them all is Rabbi Wein’s ability to present poignant lifelong Torah values and lessons in a dynamic and engaging manner.

Reading these timeless talks will take you on a delightful journey — back to the past… on the way to eternity!

Rabbi Staum has done more than justice to many of the thoughts that I expressed in my lectures and has collected and edited them for this book. I am gratified that he has done so and I hope and am confident that the book will find resonance and meaning to those who read and study it.

Rabbi Berel Wein Learn More

Real Lives. Real Challenges. Real Inspiration.

• Even her youngest sister was married before her. So what did she gain as an “older single”?

• He was haunted by the demons and dysfunction of his upbringing. How did he escape the sadness?

• Everyone called their profoundly deaf daughter a “miracle child.” But it took more than miracles to give her perfect speech.

Challenges. We all know that they bring out our potential, force us to grow, and build our spiritual and emotional muscles.

But they’re hard!

One of the most effective ways to accept – and surmount – our own challenges is to meet others who have faced their difficulties and nisyonos with courage, grace and emunah. And that’s the reason C. Saphir’s LifeLines series is so beloved ... and so important for us to read.

Here are authentic accounts of men and women who have dealt with life’s trials and come out stronger, wiser, and, usually, happier as well. The Postscripts that follow each story give us an extra level of insight by offering a “where are they now?” look at the heroes and heroines or a behind-the-scenes peek at the feedback C. Saphir received.

Whether we welcome challenges as growth opportunities or try our best to wish them away, we know that we will all have to face them sometimes. LifeLines offers us an engaging and absorbing means of strengthening ourselves so that we, like the people in these stories, can emerge empowered. Learn More

“The Path to Happiness: A Jewish Chassidic Perspective is for everyone — because in deeply cynical times such as these, everyone needs inspiration, everyone needs values to live by. Faith by itself is a great thing, but it must become a force in our everyday lives. But how? That is what makes this book so useful: it gives you specific advice, specific techniques, and perspectives to help you become the person you must become if you are to find true peace and real joy. Using wonderful stories to illustrate his points, Rabbi Scheiner introduces us to a wide range of characters... Today’s world offers endless distractions — material comforts and pleasures — that somehow lead to despair. Rabbi Scheiner explains why this is so and offers us a way out of ‘the trap,’ regardless of our circumstances. I give this book five stars! It’s not on my ‘must read’ list but on my ‘must read again and again’ list — and it will be on yours, too.”

Daniel Meyerson, Ellis Fellow at Columbia University

“A masterpiece work on the importance of simchah.”

Rabbi Chaim Dalfin, author, historian, and mashpia

Rabbi Pesach Scheiner was born in Brooklyn, New York, and received his rabbinical ordination from the Chabad-Lubavitch Yeshiva in Brooklyn. He is currently the rabbi of the Chabad Center in Boulder, Colorado. In his rabbinic capacity, Rabbi Scheiner teaches classes on Jewish practice, including the Jewish view on living successfully, from which this book was born. He lives with his wife and children in Boulder, Colorado. Learn More

Of course, we all try to be “nice” to others, but to fill our days and nights with chessed? Many of us imagine that to be the task of the great men and women who head up the organizations, create the gemachs, raise the millions to feed and clothe the impoverished. But while that is certainly vital, Living Chessed shows us how we “ordinary” people can also be “gedolim in chessed”— just by grabbing the countless opportunities to help our fellow Jews.

In Living Chessed, Rabbi Avrohom Asher Makovsky shares with us many Torah sources that talk about chessed, inspirational insights and guidance and, above all, stories of how chessed – even something as small as a compliment, a smile, or a hug – can transform the lives of both the one giving and the one receiving the chessed. In brief, readable chapters, we will discover the best segulah of all – not hurting someone’s feelings. We will read about how the Tzemach Tzedek “opened” the gates of heaven – by racing home to help another Jew in business. How a man fulfilled his dream of having children, by opening a free-loan gemach. We will enjoy – and learn from! -- story after story of people who took the opportunity to help someone, often with something as simple as a hug, a compliment, or even just a smile.

Living Chessed will show us how we can, indeed, “live chessed” throughout our days, enriching the lives of others. And enriching our own lives as well. Learn More