Top 10 Quotes & Sayings by Yisroel Salanter

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a rabbi Yisroel Salanter.
Last updated on December 21, 2024.
Yisroel Salanter

Yisrael ben Ze'ev Wolf Lipkin, also known as "Israel Salanter" or "Yisroel Salanter", was the father of the Musar movement in Orthodox Judaism and a famed Rosh yeshiva and Talmudist. The epithet Salanter was added to his name since most of his schooling took place in Salant, where he came under the influence of Rabbi Yosef Zundel of Salant. He was the father of mathematician Yom Tov Lipman Lipkin.

Rabbi | November 3, 1810 - February 2, 1883
To be a successful businessman, you must have remarkable talents; and if you have such talents, why waste them on business?
There is no greater illness than discouragement!
There is no greater disease than the loss of hope. — © Yisroel Salanter
There is no greater disease than the loss of hope.
Man is free in his imagination, but bound by his reason.
Most men worry about their own bellies and other people's souls, when we all ought to be worried about our own souls and other people's bellies.
There is no greater mercy than to remind and inspire people to study the fear of God.
Writing is one of the easiest things: erasing is one of the hardest.
Spirituality is like a bird: If you hold it too closely, it chokes, And if you hold it too loosely, it escapes.
True salvation can come only to a person who renders service to the community.
Promote yourself, but do not demote another.
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