Quote of the Month

And now, for the treatment of soul, I present you a tested formula, pleasant and sweet when neshamah is debilitated, beneficial for preventing any sort of sickness and injury. […] This is the formula that will cure your soul and your body. Take six roots––reverence, humbleness, humility, bashfulness, compassion, and charity––together with branches from the trees of intelligence, wisdom, and divinity; weeds of positive and negative commandment; spikes from halakhic fences and bastions; flowers from pecuniary and verbal benefaction; sprouts from humbleness and humility; and fruits of truth and Torah engagement. Ground them all in a blend of contrition and confessions and cook everything in the water of cleansing and purity. Mix with a spoonful of eye tears and sprinkle with balms of prescriptional diligence and piousness. Fry in oil of good reputation, put the concoction on leaves of repentance and contrition for every fault, and lay it on a bed of afflictions. Rub yourself with this formula, inside and outside: you will instantly sweat absolution, forgiveness, and expiation.

 

(Shevet Musar)