* Translated by Janine Muller Sherr
Today is the 168th yahrzeit of the Rabbi Menachem Mendel of Kotzk, a Chasidic rebbe who was renowned for his incisive and profound statements.
Here are some of his powerful and succinct gems, that despite their brevity are far from superficial:
• “There is nothing more whole than a broken heart.”
• “Silence is the most beautiful of all sounds.”
• “Where is God? Wherever you let Him in.”
• “I would not want to worship a God whose ways are understood by the minds of mere mortals.”
• “I don’t want you to sin— not because it is forbidden to sin but because you will be so busy that you won’t have time to sin.”
• “The most damaging sin is not the sin itself but man’s failure to believe in his capacity to repent and change.”
May his memory be a blessing.
