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Shortvort Parshas Reay from Rabbi Chaim Flom
Parshas Reay
"I'm so happy!! I did exactly what daddy wanted!! "
When there were no esrogim one Succos in Vilna, a man told Rabbi Eliyahu Kramer, the Vilna Gaon, that he would procure one for the rabbi, if the rabbi would give him the Heavenly merits of that mitzva (commandment). The Vilna Gaon jumped at the deal, and said "now I can do the mitzva only because Hashem wants me to do it and not because of any reward!!"
"I (G-d) am placing before you a blessing and a curse. The blessing, you will listen to the mitzvos ..." (Divorim11:26-7) The Abarbanel says that doing the mitzva itself (aside from Heavenly rewards) is a blessing!!
We have so many opportunities for blessings, let's not squander them!!
Have a great Shabbos !!
Rabbi Chaim Flom
"I'm so happy!! I did exactly what daddy wanted!! "
When there were no esrogim one Succos in Vilna, a man told Rabbi Eliyahu Kramer, the Vilna Gaon, that he would procure one for the rabbi, if the rabbi would give him the Heavenly merits of that mitzva (commandment). The Vilna Gaon jumped at the deal, and said "now I can do the mitzva only because Hashem wants me to do it and not because of any reward!!"
"I (G-d) am placing before you a blessing and a curse. The blessing, you will listen to the mitzvos ..." (Divorim11:26-7) The Abarbanel says that doing the mitzva itself (aside from Heavenly rewards) is a blessing!!
We have so many opportunities for blessings, let's not squander them!!
Have a great Shabbos !!
Rabbi Chaim Flom
Comment
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Comment by Chaim on August 14, 2007 at 8:55am -
do we get reward even if we ahead of time had agreed to give away such reward to another? perhaps Hashem gives double the reward in total, the full amount to each one?
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Comment by Rabbi Chaim Flom on August 10, 2007 at 1:15pm -
You understood correctly !! However, since it iIS TRUE that we get rewarded for mitzvos and punished for aveiros, there is always an underlying additional incentive.
Good Shabbos.
Chaim Flom
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Comment by Lynn Baltan on August 10, 2007 at 12:31pm
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Rabbi Flom, perhaps I misunderstood, but I thought one was supposed to do a mitzvah without thinking that you must be rewarded. I do a mitzvah because it is the thing to do - not because I might get something from it.
Lynn
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