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Daily Chizuk #1397
Weekly Parasha
Lights of Treasure: The Merit of a Hundred Berachot
Parashat Korach: Hashem Wants Our Hearts
Some people feel cheated when it comes to the abilities they were given in the realms of spirituality. They say, "If Hashem would have given me more money, I could be giving so much more tzedaka. If Hashem would have given me a bigger house, I could be excelling in the mitzvah of hachnasat orchim. If Hashem would have made me smarter, I would be becoming great in Torah...and the list goes on. These sound like lofty complaints, but they are nothing more than the ploy of the evil inclination. Korach felt that if he would have had a better position, he would have been able to accomplish more in his avodat Hashem, but that turned out to be his downfall. We have everything we need to perform our jobs properly.
The Sefer Chassidim in siman 530 writes, a person should never say, if I would have had something.... – כי רחמנא ליבא בעי- because Hashem wants our hearts. How much money you have has nothing to do with you. How smart you are has nothing to do with you. But your heart is fully under your jurisdiction. A person's job in this world is to want to give tzedaka and attempt to do it in whatever way he can. To desire to learn Torah and attempt to do it the best way he can.
Hashem wants our hearts. Everyone could give them to Him. If we will have a yearning to do every mitzvah in the best way, and we will do what we can to perform them, then we know we are doing our job in this world the best way possible.
SHABBAT SHALOM & ROSH CHODESH TAMMUZ TOV U'MEVORACH!!!
Some people feel cheated when it comes to the abilities they were given in the realms of spirituality. They say, "If Hashem would have given me more money, I could be giving so much more tzedaka. If Hashem would have given me a bigger house, I could be excelling in the mitzvah of hachnasat orchim. If Hashem would have made me smarter, I would be becoming great in Torah...and the list goes on. These sound like lofty complaints, but they are nothing more than the ploy of the evil inclination. Korach felt that if he would have had a better position, he would have been able to accomplish more in his avodat Hashem, but that turned out to be his downfall. We have everything we need to perform our jobs properly.
The Sefer Chassidim in siman 530 writes, a person should never say, if I would have had something.... – כי רחמנא ליבא בעי- because Hashem wants our hearts. How much money you have has nothing to do with you. How smart you are has nothing to do with you. But your heart is fully under your jurisdiction. A person's job in this world is to want to give tzedaka and attempt to do it in whatever way he can. To desire to learn Torah and attempt to do it the best way he can.
Hashem wants our hearts. Everyone could give them to Him. If we will have a yearning to do every mitzvah in the best way, and we will do what we can to perform them, then we know we are doing our job in this world the best way possible.
SHABBAT SHALOM & ROSH CHODESH TAMMUZ TOV U'MEVORACH!!!
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