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Daily Chizuk #1297
Weekly Parasha
Precious Commodities: The Wonder of Every Performed Mitzvah
Parashat Yitro: The Torah of Chesed
In this week's parasha Yitro, we read about Matan Torah. The Gemara says, the Torah begins and ends with chesed. In the beginning it speaks about Hashem doing chesed with Adam and Chava, and in the end it speaks about Hashem doing chesed with Moshe Rabbenu.
Chazal tell us, the world could only exist with the Torah, and for the 26 generations before Matan Torah, Hashem sustained the world purely on chesed. And thus we have a mizmor thanking Hashem with the words כי לעולם חסדו twenty six times, corresponding to those twenty six generations.
When a person does chesed, he is emulating Hashem and fulfills one of the 613 mitzvot. The Chafetz Chaim writes in his sefer Ahavat Chesed that people need to cling to the mitzvah of chesed, which helps arouse so much heavenly mercy. Even after the zechut of our Avot runs out, the zechut of chesed will continue carrying us to the days of Mashiach.
All of their toil and heart and soul and money invested is kodesh kodashim. One of the merits needed to produce the geula is chesed and the parents of these children are contributing a large chunk of it. In the future, these children are going to give their parents so much nachat by telling them how much they accomplished every second they were taking care of them.
Shabbat Shalom!
In this week's parasha Yitro, we read about Matan Torah. The Gemara says, the Torah begins and ends with chesed. In the beginning it speaks about Hashem doing chesed with Adam and Chava, and in the end it speaks about Hashem doing chesed with Moshe Rabbenu.
Chazal tell us, the world could only exist with the Torah, and for the 26 generations before Matan Torah, Hashem sustained the world purely on chesed. And thus we have a mizmor thanking Hashem with the words כי לעולם חסדו twenty six times, corresponding to those twenty six generations.
When a person does chesed, he is emulating Hashem and fulfills one of the 613 mitzvot. The Chafetz Chaim writes in his sefer Ahavat Chesed that people need to cling to the mitzvah of chesed, which helps arouse so much heavenly mercy. Even after the zechut of our Avot runs out, the zechut of chesed will continue carrying us to the days of Mashiach.
All of their toil and heart and soul and money invested is kodesh kodashim. One of the merits needed to produce the geula is chesed and the parents of these children are contributing a large chunk of it. In the future, these children are going to give their parents so much nachat by telling them how much they accomplished every second they were taking care of them.
Shabbat Shalom!
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