Saturday 11 January 2020

Mussar: What Are Our Priorities

 originally posted Feb. 15, 2014

See R Zelig Pliskin Gateway to Happiness p. 185

R Yisro'el Salanter [RYS] once came to Kovna and found a Torah student bedridden due to illness. RYS asked the people who prayed in the young man's synagogue, "Why aren't you taking better care of him?"

They replied: "Our community doesn't have any money."

RYS screamed at them, "You should have sold the fancy cover on the Ark... and used the money to help this person!"

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Where is our money best spent?
Kol Tuv,
RRW

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