Penimiyut (Innerness; Integrity)

As the most direct and simple line between two points, it is misleadingly the surest way to town; but in truth, the "direct approach" is a dead end

There comes a point at which the external resources we've come to rely on are suddenly ineffectual, and the only place to turn is inward, to ourselves

The penimi appreciates the differences between important things and things of lesser importance, between means and ends, between journeys and destinations. But in whatever he is involved, he is fully there. When he's on the way to something, he's fully ...

Yom Kippur is the day that our animal, emotional, intellectual and spiritual selves are linked to form a harmonious one

Three things you must know to be an adult: • Don’t fool yourself. • Don’t fool others. • Don’t let others fool you. —and do it all without trying to impress anybody. (Rabbi Shalom DovBer of Lubavitch told this to his son before his bar mitzvah.)

"It seems," the horses surmised, "that we are not men after all, but angels, who do not partake of earthly food at all"

Late one night, there was a knock on his door. On his threshold stood an old man with a long white beard and a countenance as radiant as the heavens

A chassid is a mystic. A chassid is pious. A chassid is joyous. A chassid is selfless. A chassid is a revolutionary. What is the common denominator of all these traits? That a chassid lives life from the inside

The study of Kabbala affects our relationship with the nations

It's the paradox of modern life: we're connected all the time, so were never connected to this moment in time...