Teachings of the tzaddikim
811 divrei Torah from 339 tzaddikim, each with its source and a practical lesson. Search and filters load with the app.
Abaye
- Wise in the Fear of Heaven
- Make Hashem's Name Beloved · Parshas Va'eschanan
- Torah Together with Kindness
Adam HaRishon
- Repairing Adam's Sin at the Table · Parshas Bereishis
- Climbing Step by Step · Parshas Bereishis
- Names That Reach the Root · Parshas Bereishis
Rav Yitzchak Luria (the Arizal)
Rav Aryeh Leib Ginzburg of Mitz
Rav Avrohom Borenstein
Rav Avrohom Dov Auerbach
- Seeing Hashem's Glory in Everything · Parshas Bereishis
- A Broken Heart Becomes Light · Parshas Bereishis
- Humility Holds Every Good Trait · Parshas Chayei Sarah
Rav Avrohom Gershon Ashkenazi of Kitov
Rav Avrohom of Posquieres
Avraham Avinu
- Guests before the Shechinah · Parshas Vayera
- Making the whole world call out to Hashem · Parshas Vayera
- Ten trials to reveal his love
- Love from below awakens love from above · Parshas Lech Lecha
- The talmidim of Avraham Avinu
Rav Avrohom Yehoshua Heschel of Apta, Mezhibuzh
Rebbe Schneur Zalman of Liadi
Rebbe Yisroel ben Eliezer (the Baal Shem Tov)
Basya bas Pharaoh
- I Call You My Daughter
- Back to His Root · Parshas Shemos
- The Name That Remained · Parshas Shemos
Shimon ben Azzai
Chacham Bentzion Abba Shaul
Rav Chaim Palagi of Izmir
Rav Chaim Pinto of Mogador
Rav Chaim Yosef Dovid Azulai
Rebbi Chanina bar Chama
- Everything Is in Heaven's Hands but One Thing · Parshas Eikev
- Not Even a Finger Is Bruised by Chance · Parshas Va'eschanan
- Talmidei Chachamim Increase Peace
Rav Dovid Matisyohu Rabinowitz of Biala
- Simple Faith Is the Light · Parshas Bereishis
- Keep the First Fire of a Mitzvah · Parshas Lech Lecha
- A Leader Lives for Others · Parshas Ki Sisa
Rav Dovid Moshe Freidman of Chortkov
Eliezer, Servant of Avraham
- Drawing Water for Others · Parshas Lech Lecha
- Do Your Own Part · Parshas Chayei Sarah
- Bowing for Good News · Parshas Chayei Sarah
Elisha HaNavi
- He Poured Water on Eliyahu's Hands
- If You See Me Taken From You · Parshas Lech Lecha
- Bring Me a Musician
Rav Eliyahu Gutmacher of Greiditz
Rav Eliyahu Luantz of Vermeiz
Rav Eliyahu of Vilna
- Hold Back the Tongue
- The Plain Meaning and the Seal · Parshas Mishpatim
- Know Who Taught the Book, and Who Heard It · Parshas Devarim
Esther HaMalkah
Rav Ezra Attiya of Syria
Rav Gershon Shaul Yomtov Lipman Heller
Rebbi Chanina ben Dosa
Rebbe Levi Yitzchak of Berditchev
- A True Leader Always Finds Merit · Parshas Pinchas
- Rebuke That Lifts · Parshas Chukas
- Pesach and Chag HaMatzos: Each Praises the Other · Parshas Bo
Rebbe Dov Ber, the Maggid of Mezritch
Rav Menachem Azaria of Fano
- The Hated Wife's Firstborn · Parshas Ki Seitzei
- The Torah Trusts You
- Men Speak the Language of the Torah · Parshas Masei
Rav Menachem Mendel Turim of Rymanow
Rav Menachem Nachum Twersky
- Mitzvos, Our Link to Hashem · Parshas Vayera
- Serving Hashem Through the Trouble · Parshas Noach
- Lifting Foreign Thoughts · Parshas Naso
Rav Menashe Ben Yisrael of Amsterdam
Rav Meshulem Zusha Weissblum of Anipoli
- Lifting Another Without Letting Go · Parshas Toldos
- Why Were You Not Zusha?
- Pray That They Return · Parshas Toldos
Rav Mordechai Bennet
Rav Moshe Chaim Ephraim Ashkenazi of Sudilkov
- Wisdom Creates Nature, and Wisdom Can Reshape It · Parshas Bereishis
- Pray for the Shechinah's Lack, and Your Own Is Filled · Parshas Toldos
- Turning Even the Inclination to Evil Toward Good · Parshas Toldos
Rav Moshe Yehoshua Yehuda Leib Diskin of Brisk
Rav Naftali Tzvi Yehuda Berlin of Volozhin
Noach
- The True Offspring of a Tzaddik · Parshas Noach
- Each Generation's Own Mitzvah · Parshas Noach
- Never Finished Climbing · Parshas Noach
Rebbe Elimelech of Lizhensk
- The Tzaddik Comes Down to Give · Parshas Vayera
- Whoever Feels He Has Arrived Stops Rising · Parshas Noach
- Forty Days to Break a Trait
Rebbi Pinchas ben Yair
Rav Pinchos Shapira of Koritz
Rabban Yochanan ben Zakkai
Rachel Imeinu
- Greatness That Nobody Sees · Parshas Vayetzei
- Why Rachel Is Buried by the Road · Parshas Vayechi
- Rachel Comes With the Flock · Parshas Toldos
Rav Moshe ben Maimon (Rambam)
Rebbi Shimon bar Yochai
Rebbe Nachman of Breslov
Reish Lakish
Rivkah Imeinu
- A Lily Among the Thorns · Parshas Toldos
- Take It for Me · Parshas Toldos
- His and Not Hers · Parshas Toldos
Rus
Shem
- Fear, Love and Splendor · Parshas Noach
- Beauty in the Tents of Shem · Parshas Noach
- Bless Hashem First · Parshas Lech Lecha
Rav Shimshon of Ostropoli
Rav Shlomo Eliezer Alfandari
Rav Shlomo HaKohen Rabinowitz of Radomsk
Rav Shlomo Kluger of Brod
Rav Shlomo of Karlin
Rav Shlomo Zalman Auerbach
Rav Shmuel Dovid HaLevi Ungar of Nitra
Rav Tzadok HaKohen Rabinowitz of Lublin
Rav Tzvi Elimelech Shapira of Dinov
Rav Yaakov Lorberbaum of Lisa
- Blessing Born of Gratitude · Parshas Naso
- Rebuke Needs Grace · Parshas Naso
- Why the Second Tablets Carry Warnings · Parshas Va'eschanan
Yaakov Avinu
- Emes, the middle path · Parshas Toldos
- Davening in the dark: Maariv · Parshas Vayetzei
- The ladder is a person · Parshas Vayetzei
- The small jars · Parshas Vayishlach
- Yaakov Avinu lo meis · Parshas Vayechi
Rav Yaakov Yitzchok Rabinowitz of Peshischa
Rav Yaakov Yosef HaKohen Katz of Polnoy
Rav Yechezkel HaLevi Landau of Prague
Rav Yechezkel Shraga Halberstam
Rav Yehuda Meir Shapiro of Lublin
Rav Yekusiel Yehuda Halberstam
- The Delight of the Shechinah's Glow · Parshas Terumah
- A Daf Every Day
- Hands That Trembled · Parshas Ki Savo
Rav Yerachmiel Yisroel Yitzchok Danziger of Alexander
- Words of Prayer Are Windows · Parshas Noach
- The Shorter Road to the Shechinah · Parshas Vayera
- Never Say It Is Hopeless · Parshas Vayechi
Rav Yeshaya Steiner of Kerestir
Rav Yisroel Yitzchok Kalish of Vorka
Rav Yisroel Friedman
- Hashem Is the Master of Every Throne · Parshas Vayigash
- Even One Who Has Fallen May Not Be Silent · Parshas Vayetzei
- When Your Plans Run Out · Parshas Vayigash
Rav Yisroel Meir HaKohen Kagan of Radin
Yitzchak Avinu
- Mincha: stopping in the middle of the day · Parshas Chayei Sarah
- The Akeidah remembered every Rosh Hashanah · Parshas Bechukosai
- Pachad Yitzchak: serving Hashem with awe · Parshas Toldos
- The three wells and the three Batei Mikdash · Parshas Toldos
- The father who defends his children
Rav Avrohom Azulai
Noach Yafeh of Lechovitch
Rav Raphael Boruch Toledano
Rav Menachem Nachum Twersky of Makarov
Rav Yehuda Leib Yaltushkov
- Why the Angels Came to Lot as Angels · Parshas Vayera
Rav Boruch Asheknazi of Mezhibuzh
Rav Sholom Rokeach of Belz
Rav Yissocher Dov Ber of Radoshitz
- A Segulah in Times of Trouble · Parshas Ha'azinu
Rav Aryeh Leib of Shpola
Rav Hai Gaon of Pumpedisa
Rav Sholom Shachna Friedman of Probisht
Rebbe Avrohom Twerski of Trisk
Rav Dovid HaLevi Segal
Rav Yoel Teitelbaum
Rav Aharon Perlow of Karlin
Rav Klonimus Kalman HaLevi Epstein of Cracow
- Divine Restrictions and Garments · Parshas Lech Lecha
- Rise Like a Lion in the Morning · Parshas Ki Seitzei
Rav Uri Klughaft of Strelisk
Rav Yisrael Lipkin
Rav Yosef Yoizel Horowitz
Rav Raphael of Bershad
Rav Chaim Itzkowitz of Volozhin
Rav Moshe Alshich
Rav Moshe Chaim Luzzatto
- Man Alone Joins Heaven and Earth
- Why We Read Parshas Zachor · Parshas Ki Seitzei
- Rebuilding on Rosh Hashanah, Protecting in the Sukkah · Parshas Ki Seitzei
- Beis Yaakov, Leave Katnus Behind
- Yosef and the Attribute of Yesod · Parshas Vayeshev
Rav Sholom Hedaya of Aram Sova
Rav Yehuda Lowy
- A Good Heart · Parshas Vayeshev
- Review Your Learning · Parshas Shelach
- The Maharal’s Promise
- Why Non-Jewish Wine Is Forbidden
Rav Yitzchok Hutner
Rav Avrohom Yeshaya Karelitz
Rav Yeruchem Levovitz
Rav Avrohom Hamalach Friedman
Rav Elchonon Bunim Wasserman
Rav Eliezer Zusia Portugal of Skulen
Rebbe Meir Segal HaLevi Rottenberg of Apta
Rav Refael Yosef Chazan of Izmir
Rav Meir Simchah HaKohen of Dvinsk
- When Berlin Is Called Jerusalem · Parshas Bechukosai
- Why a Jew Gives His Life for Hashem · Parshas Va'eschanan
Rav Nachman of Horodonka
- Learn From the Tzaddik at the Right Time · Parshas Bamidbar
Rav Aharon Berachia of Modina
Rav Boruch Ashlag
Rav Elozor Menachem Mann Shach
Rav Meir Baal Haness
Rav Meir Dan Platzky
Rav Meir Leifer of Premishlan
- The Berachos Within the Tochachah · Parshas Ki Savo
Rav Meir Yehuda Leibush Wisser
Mekubel Yichye Tzalach
Rav Menachem Mendel Schneerson
Rav Moshe Aharon Pinto
Rav Nosson Tzvi Finkel
Rav Refoel Yaakov Dovid Wilovsky
Rav Shimshon Refoel Hirsch
Rav Shlomo Molcho
Rav Shmaryahu Yosef Chaim Kanievsky
Rav Yaakov Tzvi Mecklenburg
Rav Yitzchok Isaac Taub
Rav Yosef Dov Soloveitchik
Rav Avrohom Maimonides
Rabbeinu Chaim Vital
Rebbe Chanina ben Tradyon
Rav Avrohom Yitzchok Kook
Rav Dov Berish Weidenfeld
Moshe Rabbeinu
- Yocheved, Daughter and Woman · Parshas Shemos
- The Order of the Letters in Moshe's Name
Rav Simcha Bunim Bonhart
Rav Chanoch Henich HaKohen Levine
Rav Yaakov Abuchatzeira
- Preparing for Shabbos All Week · Parshas Yisro
- Dan Like a Serpent, Dan Like a Lion Cub · Parshas Vayechi
- Adding Strength Each Day
- Breaking Desires Is the Best Teshuvah
- Weapons for the War Against the Yetzer Hara
- A Segulah for Health in Toiling in Torah · Parshas Beshalach
- The Damage of Lashon Hara · Parshas Noach
Rav Avrohom Abali HaLevi Gumbiner
Rav Chaim Halberstam
Rav Moshe Sofer
Rav Yaakov HaLevi Ruderman
- A Talmid Is Always a Son · Parshas Va'eschanan
- A Teacher Remembers His Students
- Patience with Every Bochur
Yehoshua bin Nun
Rav Chaim Ibn Attar
- Why Mankind Was Created as One · Parshas Bereishis
- Shabbos Sustains the World · Parshas Bereishis
- Why Noach Built an Ark for Himself · Parshas Noach
Rav Naftoli Tzvi Horowitz
Rav Klonimus Kalman Shapira
Rav Moshe Teitelbaum
- All of Them Holy: Korach's Argument · Parshas Korach
Rav Menachem Mendel Morgenstern
Rav Moshe Cordovero
Rav Saadia Gaon
Rav Shlomo Luria (Ashkenazi)
Rav Tzvi Hirsch Kalischer
Rav Eliyohu Eliezer Dessler
Shimon HaKohen HaTzaddik
Rav Yechezkel Abramsky
Rav Aharon Roth
Rav Pinchas HaLevi Horowitz
- Freeing the Holy Sparks · Parshas Yisro
Rav Yosef Dov HaLevi Soloveitchik
Rav Yosef Shlomo Dayan
Rav Avrohom Ibn Ezra
Rav Nosson HaKohen Adler (Katz)
Rav Nosson Nota Shapiro
Rav Sholom Mordechai Schwadron
Rav Bentzion Meir Chai Uziel
Rav Chaim Tirar of Czernowitz
- Why Yosef Went Down First · Parshas Vayeshev
- The Judgment of the Shivtei Kah · Parshas Vayeshev
- Here Comes the Dreamer · Parshas Vayeshev
- And Now, Let Us Kill Him · Parshas Vayeshev
Rav Doniel Frisch
Rav Yaakov Kopel Chossid Hager
Rav Avrohom Shmuel Binyomin Sofer (Schreiber)
Rav Meir Hagodol of Premishlan
- Trust From the First Verse · Parshas Bereishis
Nadav and Avihu
- A Fire That Was Not Commanded · Parshas Shemini
- Right Intention, Wrong Way · Parshas Shemini
- Two Threads of Fire · Parshas Shemini
- Pure Intentions, Reward Above
Reuven ben Yaakov Ovinu
Rav Shmuel Borenstein
Rav Yaakov Kamenetzky
Rav Yitzchok Meir Alter Rotenberg of Gur
Rav Yehuda Leib Ashlag
Rav Yosef Shlomo Delmedigo
Rav Osher Perlow
Yehuda ben Yaakov Ovinu
Rav Yitzchok bar Sheshes
Rav Yosef Shlomo Kahaneman
Rav Elozor Simcha Wasserman
Rav Mordechai Twersky of Chernobyl
Rav Yehuda Klonimus Hachossid
Rav Mordechai Rosenblatt of Slonim
Rav Chaim of Krasna
Rav Mordechai Yosef Leiner
- Do Not Defile the Soul With Despair · Parshas Emor
Rav Shmuel Shmelke Horowitz of Nikolsburg
Yitzchok Isaac Eichenstein of Ziditchov
Rav Yo'ir Chaim Bachrach
Rav Shimshon Chaim Nachmani of Modina
Rav Zev Wolf Landau of Strikov
Rebbe DovBer of Lubavitch
Rav Dovid Tevli of Lisa
Rav Judah ben Samuel of Regensburg
Rav Tzvi Hirsch of Chirov
Rav Yaakov Yosef Twersky of Skver
Rav Moshe Yitzchak Gevirtzman of Pshevorsk
Rav Tzvi Hirsch Friedman of Liska
- God and Nature · Parshas Yisro
Rav Shmuel Schneerson of Lubavitch
Rav Yechiel Michel of Zlotshuv
Nechemya
Rav Avrohom Yehuda Leib HaKohen Schwartz
Rav Chaim Soloveitchik
Rav Yisrael Dov Ber of Vilednik
Rav Yosef Meir Weiss of Spinka
Rav Chaim Meir Hager
Rav Moshe of Dalina
Rav Shimshon Dovid Pincus
- Avrohom Ovinu and the Measure of Chesed · Parshas Chayei Sarah
- Modeh Ani, Not Ani Modeh
- The Holes in the Head
Rav Yissochor Dov Rokeach
- The Four Sons Become a Shema
- Learning Ohr HaChaim for Yiras Shamayim · Parshas Acharei Mos
Rav Yitzchak Kaduri
Rav Yitzchok Menachem Dancyger of Alexander
Rav Shmuel Eliezer Eidels
- Returning to the Study of the Maharsha
- Holy Things Come in Groups of Seven · Parshas Beha'aloscha
Rav Yitzchak of Drohovitch
Rav Avrohom Yaakov HaKohen Pam
Rav Menachem Mendel Schneerson
Rav Avraham Brandwein
Rav Avrohom
Rav Azriel Hildesheimer
Rav Meir Yechiel HaLevi Halshtuk
Rav Shabtai Sheptil Horowitz
Rav Simcha Zissel Ziv
Rabbeinu Yaakov
Rav Yeshua Heschel Landau
Rav Yihya Qafih
Rav Yihya Yitzhak Halevi
Rav Yisrael Abuchatzeirah
Rebbe David of Lelov
Rav Gedalia Schorr
- Light Planted in the Tzaddik
- Chosen to Be Hashem’s · Parshas Kedoshim
- Half the Time, Full Concentration
- Hashem Remembers What We Forget
- Hashem’s Wedding Gift
- Yaakov’s Growth in Galus · Parshas Vayetzei
- Two Kinds of Intent · Parshas Noach
- The Greatness of Adam
- Two Kinds of Yirah · Parshas Beshalach
- Knowing One’s Task
Rav Naftali HaKohen Katz
Rav Moshe di Trani
Rav Shmuel Druzi
Rav Yitzchok Isaac Rosenbaum
King David
Rav Moshe Yehoshua Hager
Simeon ben Azzai
Rav Chanina S'gan Kohanim
Hamekubal Yaakov Chaim Yisroel Refael Alfia
Rav Judah (Yehuda) Alkalai
The Tanna Rebbi Akiva
Rav Yechezkel Sarna
Rebbi Yishmael (Ben Elisha) Kohen Gadol
Nochum Ish Gamzu
Rav Simcha Zissel Ziv Broide
Rav Eliyohu Chaim Carlebach
Rav Yitzchok Arye Zekel Leib of Worms
Rav Avraham Abulafia
Rav Yaakov Yisroel Twersky of Cherkas
Rav Yehuda Fatiya
Rav Chaim Elozor Shapira of Munkatch
Rav Dovid Ganz
Rebbi Yehuda (Judah) ha-Nasi
Rav Aharon of Zhitomir
- Where a Person's Thoughts Are · Parshas Vayishlach
The Tana Raban Shimon Ben Gamliel
Rav Yisroel Hager of Vizhnitz
Rebbe Yitzchak Isaac Yehudah Yechiel Safrin of Komarna
- Even a Tzaddik Is Blinded by a Bribe · Parshas Mishpatim
Rav Yochanan HaSandler
Rav Raphael Pinto
Rebbi Amram Chisda (The Pious)
Chavakuk Hanavi ben Isha Hashunamis
Rav Hillel Lichtenstein of Kolomaya
Rabbeinu Amnon
Rav Meshulem Igra of Tismenitz
- No Dream Without Inaccuracies · Parshas Vayeshev
Rav Nissim Peretz
Rav Yaakov Moshe Toledano
Rav Yaakov Yosef of Ostrog
Rav Yisroel Shapiro of Gradzisk
Rav Chaim Hirschensohn
Rav Menahem Azariah da Fano
Rav Tzvi Hirsch HaKohen of Riminov
Rav Yechiel Yehoshua Rabinowitz of Biala
Rav Yoel Halperin of Zamość
Rav Gedalya Rabinowitz of Linitz
Rav Aharon HaKohen Rosenfeld of Pinsk Karlin
Rav Asher (Usher) Freund
Rav Avraham Falagi of Izmir, Istanbul
Rav Hillel HaLevi of Paritsh
Rav Yeshaya Weltfried of Kalish
Rav Dovid HaLevi of Stephin
Rav Tzvi Hirsch Shapiro of Munkach
Rebbe Mordecai of Lechovitz.
Rav Sholom Yosef Freidman of Sadigura
Rav Elyakim Shlomo Shapira of Hordona
- Holiness of the Land · Parshas Eikev
Rav Yechezkel Levenstein
Asher - Son of Yaakov
- A candle for happiness and blessing · Parshas Vayetzei
Rav Shmaryohu Shmerel of Varchovka
Rebbe Avraham of Stretin
- Pride without the fall · Parshas Vayishlach
Rav Yaakov Yitzchak HaLevi Horowitz
Rav Yehoshua Buxbaum
Rav Yeshaya HaLevi Horowitz
- Power Through the Mouth · Parshas Vayishlach
Rav Mordechai Pogramansky
- No More Tears · Parshas Vayigash
Rav Azriel of Gerona
Rav Elozor Rokeach
Rav Yehoshua Horowitz
- Hashem Does Not Act Alone · Parshas Va'eschanan
Rav Alter Elozor Menachem Biderman
Rav Moshe Pallier of Kobrin
Rav Avrohom Weinberg
- Why Did You Come to Me? · Parshas Yisro
Rav Yisrael Taub
- Music, the Avodah of the Leviim · Parshas Miketz
- Serve Hashem With Pride · Parshas Emor
- A Gathering Place of Fools
- Torah Requires Effort
- Remove Opposition Like Shoes From Your Feet · Parshas Shemos
- One Hour of Teshuvah
- Torah in the Name of Its Author
- Daven With a Minyan for Parnassah · Parshas Bechukosai
Rav Eliezer Papo
Rav Eliezer Tzvi Safrin
Rav Yisrael Friedman
Rav Mordechai Chazan
Rav Pinchas Menachem Alter
Rav Yaakov Segal (Moelin)
Rav Binyomin Mendelson
Rav Avrohom Brandwein
Rav Avrohom Weinberg
Rav Shmuel
Rav Yechiel Meir Lifschitz of Gostynin
Rav Yehoshua Menachem Arenberg
Rav Yehuda Leon Patilon
Rav Yosef Chaim Shneur Kotler
- See the Rebbe Before You
- The Lesson of the Sons of Korach
- Turning Potential Into Action
- Unity and the Shechinah
- Character Before Chelek in Torah
- Ameilus in Times of Yissurim
- Growing Like the Malachim
- Why the Techeiles Is a Process
- The Intent Behind the Deed
- The Three-Fold Reach of an Action
- The Power of Chessed
Aharon HaKohen
Rav Avrohom Mordechai Alter
- The Beggar's Purse · Parshas Va'era
- A Request for Achdus
Rav Gedalya Aharon Kenig (Koenig)
Rav Yehuda Zev Segal
Rebbi Yose Hagelili
Rav Yosef Breuer
Rav Avrohom Abba Freedman
Rebbi Chananya ben Akashya
Rav Eliezer Papo
Eli Kohen Gadol (High priest)
Rebbi Matteya ben Heresh
Rebbe Eliyahu Yosef Rabinowitz
Rav Shaul Brach
- One Mitzva Fulfilled for All Klal Yisroel · Parshas Bo