(Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsh)
Tikkun HaKlali
A Jew who merits to say the prescribed ten kapitlach of Tehillim with devotion and strength can shatter walls of iron.
(Klausenberger Rebbe)
Individualism
Everyone must find his own individual approach in his avodas Hashem.
(Rebbe Pinchas of Koretz)
A student of Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz once asked him how he could be assured that he was making progress in his Torah study. Rabbi Steinsaltz replied that he honestly did not know how much the student had accomplished over the past year and advised his student that there was only one person who could accurately judge his progress - the student's wife.
Rabbi Steinsaltz instructed his student to ask his wife whether all the Torah he learned over the past year had contributed into making him into a better person, or whether he had just remained the same. If she told him that he was better person, he would know that indeed was on the right track and could be confident that he was making headway in his studies. If she told him there was no apparent difference, he would know that he would need to start making some changes.
Loving Hashem and loving your neighbor are indeed two separate mitzvos, but, in essence, loving Hashem and loving your fellow man are one and the same. It is the tzaddik's task to turn the two loves into one.
(Rebbe Avraham Yehoshua Heshel of Apta)
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