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Daily Chizuk #0766
Mitzvot / Torah Observance
Pipelines of Beracha: Lessons from Avraham’s Mourning
Our Main Motivation!
The Gra writes in his perush on Mishleh that the definition of the word chesed is to do for others something we are not obligated to do for them. Each time we do that, we fulfill the positive commandment of והלכת בדרכיו – emulating the ways of Hashem. Just like Hashem does things for us that He is not obligated to do, we are to act the same way towards others.
It is true that when we help others we are also helping ourselves, but our main motivation should be that we are doing the ratzon Hashem and emulating Him in all of our acts of gemilut chasadim.
The Gra writes in his perush on Mishleh that the definition of the word chesed is to do for others something we are not obligated to do for them. Each time we do that, we fulfill the positive commandment of והלכת בדרכיו – emulating the ways of Hashem. Just like Hashem does things for us that He is not obligated to do, we are to act the same way towards others.
It is true that when we help others we are also helping ourselves, but our main motivation should be that we are doing the ratzon Hashem and emulating Him in all of our acts of gemilut chasadim.
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