Daily Devotionals

If I think I have nothing to learn from the person before me, I’m the one who loses out. The irony is that people who care more about impressing everyone with their brilliance actually deprive themselves of wisdom.

The real strength of faith is that it is achievable by all. And often, the smallest children have the purest faith. That is God’s secret weapon.

Wisdom combines knowledge of information with a deeper understanding of what is right. Wisdom of the heart tells us how to use the knowledge stored in our heads.

“The beginning of wisdom” is fear of God. It is more important than knowledge, than imagination, than anything at all!

The more questions we ask, the more we’ll know, and the better the questions we ask, the greater the wisdom to follow. That’s the wisdom of asking questions!

Proverbs is teaching us that being slow to anger is a sign of wisdom. Acting in anger is the opposite. It leads to foolish and often destructive outcomes.

But like the rabbi in our story, Moses wisely understood that the truest wealth is the good deeds we do.

Acting angry can be a valuable tool for education and proper discipline. If one of my children does something wholly unacceptable, displaying anger as a way of teaching them that there is no tolerance for such behaviour can be very effective.

True devotion to God requires that we overcome our fear of human beings in favour of our fear of God. As the rabbi instructed his students, we must all fear God more than people.

The message of Esther assures us that God is just as active, controlling every detail of our world, even when He keeps Himself hidden from our view.

Jewish tradition encourages us to mark these moments of blessing on our calendars to be celebrated in years to come.

But they saw they had an opportunity to make a difference, and they seized the moment and acted, risking their lives for others.