ASIDE FROM TELLING HASHEM HOW BIG OUR PROBLEMS ARE, LET US TELL OUR PROBLEMS HOW BIG HASHEM IS

RABBI NAFTOLI HEXTER

THE MESSAGE OF PURIM IS THAT EVEN IN THE DARKEST OF TIMES, WE CAN STILL FIND HOPE AND REDEMPTION THROUGH OUR CONNECTION TO HASHEM.

RABBI MEIR SHAPIRO (1887-1933)

PURIM IS A TIME TO LET GO OF OUR FEARS AND ANXIETIES, AND TO EMBRACE THE JOY AND HAPPINESS THAT COMES FROM BEING CLOSE TO HASHEM.

THE KOTZKER REBBE, RABBI MENACHEM MENDEL (1787-1859)

ON PURIM YOU SEE MANY PEOPLE DRESSED IN DIFFERENT COSTUMES, ONE IS A CLOWN, ONE IS AN ANIMAL, AND ONE YOU DON’T EVEN KNOW WHAT HE’S WEARING. DO YOU GET ANGRY OR UPSET WITH THEM? NO, BECAUSE YOU KNOW IT’S JUST A COSTUME. IN LIFE, WE MEET MANY PEOPLE. ONE IS IMPATIENT, ONE IS ANGRY, ONE IS APATHETIC… THIS IS NOT WHO THEY REALLY ARE. THIS IS JUST A “COSTUME.” DEEP IN THEIR HEART, THEY ARE ALL WARM JEWS, FULL OF PURITY AND BEAUTY. WE JUST NEED TO INTERACT WITH THEM WITH KINDNESS AND TENDERNESS AND TAKE OFF THEIR “COSTUMES” TO REVEAL THE PURE SOUL INSIDE EACH ONE.

THE LUBAVITCHER REBBE, RABBI MENACHEM MENDEL SCHNEERSON (1902-1994)

LOVE IS THE MOST RELIABLE CURE FOR WOUNDS OF THE SOUL

RABBI NAFTALI TZVI OF ROPSHITZ (1760-1827)

EVERYTHING CAN BE TAKEN AWAY FROM ME – EXCEPT FOR HASHEM, HE IS ALWAYS WITH ME

RABBI AHARON OF KARLIN (1736-1772)

WHEN A JEW STUMBLES AND FALLS, HE FALLS DIRECTLY INTO THE LAP OF HASHEM

THE ISHBITZER, RABBI MORDECHAI YOSEF LEINER (1801-1854)