Daily Chizuk #1028

The pasuk says נושא חסד לאלפים – Hashem uses the good deeds of people to help their descendants, even up to 2000 generations later. The chesed of Hashem is so great, He created a system in which the deeds of parents are able to help their children as well. Sometimes we find, out of nowhere, a child in an irreligious family wanting to grow and become close to Hashem. On the surface level, we don’t know what sparked him. But then we find, his grandmother, or great-grandmother was religious and she must have been praying for the religious success of her children and grandchildren. And Hashem used her tefilot to help her descendants.
Our deeds not only help ourselves, but they help our descendants as well.