Best 23 quotes of Baal Shem Tov on MyQuotes

A broom sweeps clean, and itself becomes soiled; cleanse yourself of those offenses of which you may feel guilty.

Before you can find God, you must lose yourself.

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

Fear builds walls to bar the light.

For any of us to come to the understanding that we are common and unlearned is the accomplishment of a lifetime.

Forgetfulness leads to exile while remembrance is the secret of redemption.

From every human being there rises a light.

I am going out one door, and shall go through another.

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.

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.

Mind is the foundation of man.

People should allow themselves the opportunity to really know what the unity of God means. To grasp a part of the nondivisible union is to grasp the whole.

Pleasures are manifestations of God's name.

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

The world is full of wonders and miracles but man takes his little hand and covers his eyes and sees nothing.

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

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.

Unless we believe that God renews creation every day, our prayers grow habitual and tedious.

We should learn and reflect to the best of our capacity, but when we reach a point where we are unable to make sense of life, we should supplant faith for understanding, and reflect again on what we do know.

We should not laugh at the person who becoming caught up in his prayer bends his body or moves about in strange ways. Perhaps he moves in this manner to wave off unwelcome thoughts that would interrupt the prayer. Would we find it funny if we saw a person drowning going through strange motions doing whatever was necessary to save his life?

When a father complains that his son has taken to evil ways, what should he do? Love him more than ever.

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

From every human being there rises a light that reaches straight to heaven, and when two souls that are destined to be together find each other, the streams of light flow together and a single brighter light goes forth from that united being.