j-matt….short sweet and to the point 🙂
yashrus…not as short but still sweet and to the point.
thanks to both of you.
a little early, but here’s something on parshas shemos:
“And Moshe stood up and saved them” (2:17)
The Torah tells us here how Moshe saved Tziporah, who at that time was a complete stranger. later on we read how measure for measure, Tziporah saved Moshe’s life (4:24-25). We see from this, says the Chofetz Chaim, that all the kindness that a person does for someone else is eventually repaid to him.
Whenever you do a favor for someone else, you benefit yourself. Definitely, the highest level is to do kindness for others for the sake of a mitzvah without thinking of personal gain. But whenever you find it difficult to do an act of chessed for others, at least do it for the reason that good things will occur to you in the future because of your act. When you are kind to others, they will be kinder to you. If not right away, then in time you will be repaid.
*Rabbi Zelig Pliskin