Tue Jun 19 '07 - 3 Tammuz 5767

• Verse of the day
  G-d is good, a stronghold in the day of trouble and He knows those that take refuge in Him. (Nahum 1:7)
  
• Gemura of the day
  For we have learned: A person should wash his face, hands and feet every day because of his creator (G-d), for it says [Proverbs 16:4]: G-d had made everything for His purpose. (Tractate Shabbas 50b)
  
• Middah of the day
  A person's good, then, is to seek honest friends, who will open his eyes to what he is blind to and rebuke him with love in order to rescue him from all evil. For what a man cannot see because of his natural blindness to his own faults, they will see and understand. They will caution him and he will be protected. (Mesillat Yesharim Chapter XXIII)
  
• Quote of the day
  "The entire purpose of our existence is to overcome our negative habits" (Vilna Goan in his commentary on Mishlei 4:13)
  
• Halacha of the day
  One should not wear expensive clothes, for this leads a person to pride, nor clothes that are too open or dirty, in order that he will not be ridiculed by people, but he should have moderate priced and clean clothes. "A man should always sell even the beams of his house to get shoes for his feet. [Tractate Shabbat 129a]" (Kitzur Shulchan Aruch 3:3)