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י"ט אדר ב’ התשפ"ד

Friday
י"ט אדר ב’ התשפ"ד

חיפוש בארכיון

331. Pleasure (2)

Behold, one who has been favored by Hashem with wealth and possessions, and lives in peace and comfort without any pain or disturbances, should not receive much credit for making Shabbos pleasurable. The real credit goes to someone who has not enough money and many bad and difficult things happen to him and nevertheless when Shabbos arrives he forces himself to spend a little more than he can afford for the honor of Shabbos, and cuts down on the weekday spending to honor Shabbos, and he turns his heart to forget his sadness and anger, and his heart rejoices and his honor is happy and his soul takes pleasure in the pastures to honor Hashem; such a man is praiseworthy.

In the same way that it is a positive commandment to honor the Shabbos, so too in the weekdays it is good for a person not to follow the pleasures and emptiness of this world, for it is all worthless, and after a small time it has disappeared as if it had never been, and the pleasure is lost in a bad way, and its end is changed into a plague. The way of the Torah is that it is acquired with a small amount of pleasure and afterwards he will have pleasure with Hashem and his mouth will be full of laughter and enjoyment and his table will be filled with pasture at the time when the nations will say “Hashem has indeed done great things for these!”, so may it be speedily in our days, Amen.

“My brothers and my nation, take this sefer Torah, and with this, and like this learn well, so that you should have it good; listen and enliven your soul, and achieve gladness and joy in this world and the world to come” (From the author’s intro.)