Explore Quotes by Baal Shem Tov

Everybody is unique. Compare not yourself with anybody else lest you spoil God's curriculum.

Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself." Why? Because every human being has a root in the Unity, and to reject the minutest particle of the Unity is to reject it all.

If the Bible didn't show us the weaknesses, the vulnerabilities, the sins of our heroes, we might have deep questions about their true virtue.

Your fellow man is your mirror. If your own face is clean, the image you perceive will also be flawless. But should you look upon your fellow man and see a blemish, it is your own imperfection that you are encountering - you are being shown what it is that you must correct within yourself.

If a man has beheld evil, he may know that it was shown to him in order that he learn his own guilt and repent; for what is shown to him is also within him.

There is no room for God in the man who is filled with himself.

Telling the proper stories is as if you were approaching the throne of Heaven in a fiery chariot.

Whenever feeling downcast, each person should vitally remember, "For my sake, the entire world was created."

The world is new to us every morning - and every man should believe he is reborn each day