[RBS] Fw: A Daily Dose of Kindness - Friday, January 3, 2013
Adina and Charles Rosenstein
cr1818 at netvision.net.il
Fri Jan 3 15:03:43 IST 2014
This is an email about the last bus out of JM during the snowstorm, either Thursday or Erev Shabbat.
If you were on that bus and know the driver, you mght want to tell him that someone told the whole list of subscribers of this email list about him.
Not only that, but now the BS list and the RBS lists will know about him.
Shabbat Shalom,
Adina
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Sent: Friday, January 03, 2014 08:26 AM
Subject: A Daily Dose of Kindness - Friday, January 3, 2013
A Daily Dose of Kindness
Friday, January 3, 2013
Today's Story
The last 417 bus out of Jerusalem was blessed with a wonderful bus driver, who kindly played soothing, new-age instrumental music to calm everyone's frayed nerves, and who joked with the passengers, and joined them outside for a photo-session in the snow.
He never showed impatience; he was full of good cheer and friendliness, and he let passersby come onto the bus to warm up for a bit, while we were all waiting for the roads to clear. Once the road cleared, he proved he was an exceptional driver in adverse weather conditions, as well.
A Portion of Kindness
By Rosally Saltsman
Let each man request of his fellow and each woman from her fellow silver vessels and gold vessels. Hashem granted favor in the eyes of Egypt.
(Shemos 11:2-3)
The Jews are requested to ask each one ????? for vessels of gold and silver. The question arises, why are the Egyptians referred to as ????, which translates as friend? The Gaon MiVilna offers the following explanation. First, Bnei Yisrael asked for a loan of gold and silver vessels from one another. This brought the midda of chesed to the land. Then Hashem granted favor in the eyes of Egypt and they were ready to lend their vessels.
Mitzvah gorreres mitzvah applies not only to oneself, but to others as well. If we want others to do chesed we have to inspire it in them and create the appropriate spiritual climate for chesed to thrive by doing chesed ourselves. Nothing exists in a vacuum and acts of chesed are no exception.
With a strong hand, Hashem removed us from Egypt from the house of bondage.
(Shemos 13:14)
The Jews went from abject slavery to deliverance in one night. It wasn't a gradual process whereby their conditions improved, they formed unions, they were granted limited rights. The opposite is true. When Moshe Rabbeinu came on the scene, their work was increased. Although their decline into servitude was gradual, they went from the mud pits of slavery to complete redemption literally overnight.
Many people today are seeking redemption from their various forms of enslavement. Some are enslaved by debt, some by the burden of caring for others. Some are victims of abuse they can't escape,agunos are imprisoned by marriage contracts they can't extricate themselves from. Many people seek deliverance but there is no deliverer. We have it within our power to act as deliverers. We can be agents of Hashem just as Moshe was and free people from seemingly inextricable servitude. Perhaps we can't free two million people from bondage and perhaps not overnight, but many of us know people whose burdens are too difficult for them to bear. If we were to make an effort to ease their burden a little bit, physically, emotionally, financially, then we would be doing a great chesed and we would be bringing Klal Yisrael closer to the final redemption.
From Rosally Saltsman's book, A Portion of Kindness.
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