Emuna Beams

On Saturday night, Dec. 28, 2019, a masked assailant stormed into Rabbi Rottenberg's synagogue on Forshay Avenue in Monsey during the lighting of Chanukah candles. Wielding a machete, he wounded five people, three of whom are in critical condition. The "Emuna News" division of Emuna Beams gives us a spiritual perspective on the attack.

Emuna Beams is privileged to host the Melitzer Rebbe shlit'a, one of the Jewish world's most highly regarded scholars and the epitome of upright character and holiness, a great grandson of the Baal Shem Tov and son-after-son of the holy and legendary Rebbe Michel'e of Zlatchov. The Melitzer offers some encouraging thoughts for spiritual strengthening, especially during Chanukah.

Today's podcast has a double message, one for parents and one for children, including young adults and married children. Love is not about things, but about togetherness. In parenting, there is never enough love. A child doesn't become spoiled from an excess of love, but from a sense of entitlement, when he or she thinks that they are entitled to whatever they want. We learn what good parenting really is from our Father in Heaven...

For those who don't yet know us, we are delighted to introduce ourselves: Emuna Beams, the daily soul-strength vitamin podcast with Rabbi Lazer Brody.

Before you can make others happy, you have to make yourself happy. That's not egotism, but a requisite to emotional health. Therefore, don't do anything unless you want to and it makes you happy. There is, though, one significant exception to that rule - if someone saved your life, you'd be an ingrate by saying, "I don't feel like doing a small favor for that person." Don't forget gratitude...

There are two ways to wake a slumbering person: either you make a loud noise or you turn on bright lights. On Rosh Hashanah, Hashem awakens his spiritually-sleeping children with a blast of the Shofar, but on Chanukah, He turns on the brightest of lights...

Today, Rabbi Lazer broadcasts from the ancient Sycamore grove in the dunes of the northern Negev Desert south of Ashdod. What's the secret of these trees and their ability to thrive in such an arid climate with winds and shifting sands? These trees are an amazing living parable about the Jewish People...

Every blessing in life is like a zero on a check. But even if a check with 20 zeros is made out to you, if there's not a "one" on the left side, it's still worth zero. That "one" on the left side is emuna, the belief that the Almighty is One and His Name is One.

Our souls need a break to reboot and reconnect with our Creator and with ourselves. Rabbi Lazer goes out to the dunes on the southern outskirts of Ashdod, to tell about a big favor that you should be doing for yourself.

The five brothers sat down together for dinner. Five minutes into the meal, the walls of the condo trembled and a blood-curdling roar thundered from the entrance foyer. Suddenly, a fierce lion charged into the room...What do you do when a lion suddenly enters your life, scaring the wits out of you? Listen to today's surprising podcast, which is designed for the whole family: