A container is defined by its contents: A pitcher of water is water. A crate of apples is apples. A house, too, is defined by what it contains.
Fill your house with books of Torah, and your house becomes a Torah. Affix charity boxes to its walls, and your house becomes a wellspring of charity. Bring those who need a warm home to your table, and your house becomes a lamp in the darkness.
Fill your house with the 10 commandment verses one verse on one wall... Sounds good. Really feels so good Reply
Provided they read and put them into practice ;)
Shabbat shalom, y'all.
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Amen. Over the years I been collecting different books about Torah Reply
You need to put charity in the charity boxes for them to do any good. Simply affixing boxes and then leaving them empty defeats the point. Reply
This comes at a very good time for me. I am buying a large home in a working class city in VT (Barre) and upgrading it to be energy efficient and safe using what resources I have which are very meager but sufficient. I'm then opening up to housemates through HomeshareVT. It's horrifying to contemplate sharing one's home with people who are right now possibly strangers to me. But it's important to be able to provide a home if one is able, and not to allow people to live in comparative squalor and isolation, when it could be otherwise. I will appreciate any prayers and blessings that come my way for this endeavor. If our Creator sees fit to have my house populated with anyone with Torah knowledge, I will be super-blessed. At the very least I will have my friend come to recite Torah before I live there. I have had it virtually blessed, but it's not the same as having words spoken to stir up the dust and bring light into the house that it may truly become a home. Reply
All of which we call by one word: "Home." Reply
Fill your Inner House with Light The 'house' or 'temple' within us is the soul - the place where the Light of G_d fills it according to the extent we are able to draw the Light that corrects our egoism from selfish love to brotherly love to bring contentment to G_d. Reply
This is a WOW message. Thank you so much. Reply
Amazing! This is amazing. Thank you so much for posting it! Reply
Purify Your House A house is likened to ones' heart. lf your house is rid of unclean materials, so will it be reflected in all it contains. Reply
what a beautiful way to illustrate love! Reply
I cried
I cried, I read it to my sister and she cried too.
Thank you.
You are a bright lamp in the darkness.
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Fill your House
Beautifully worded and so true. Excellent words for thought.
I greatly appreciate your daily wordsw of wisdom.
Bless you.
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We are known as "the people of the book", but even if our houses are filled with good writings, we also need to read them, and this involves study and repetition so as to maintain this identity.