Interesting: Why do we not want to be thanked for a favor we have done?
In Parashat Titzvah, which is recited on Shabbat, the Torah tells us about lighting the menorah in the Mishkan.
The Admor Rabbi Josiah Pinto explained in his lesson how one can learn from this the foundation of gratitude to a friend. His full words are inside
David Berger, in collaboration with Shuva Israel
10/02/2022
Thursday, 10 February 2022, 11:21 Updated: 11:24
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A person who does not work on his virtues, his virtues will take him to a great destruction like no other (Photo: ShutterStock)
On Shabbat we read in the synagogue the Parshas Titzvah in which the Torah tells us about lighting the menorah in the Mishkan.
The Admor Rabbi Josiah Pinto explained in his lesson how one can learn from this the foundation of gratitude to a friend and on the other hand the natural desire to keep the account open so that our friends will feel obligated to us.
You say to Moshe Rabbeinu, "How to Mathemat Yemizhar, to you.
Gd tells Moses that the children of Israel will bring oil to light the menorah just as I illuminate the world for the people of Israel, so the people of Israel illuminate and return to Gd with the light of the menorah.
It should be difficult to say that God needs to light a lamp that will illuminate him, God does not need the light of man, it is all his, so what does it mean that God illuminates the lamp as God illuminates the world for them?
And here we can say here a great element, if we look at the person's life during the day, a person meets a person or has a friend and that friend hurt him, after a while this friend comes to the person and asks him for forgiveness, what does that person say to his friend should not apologize, What you did to me is not a problem, it's nothing. Do not even apologize, the person tells his friend.
The question is, does a person come to apologize, why does his friend not want to accept forgiveness, why does he not even want to hear him apologize, why do people behave like that?
But you can interpret and say, the person does not want to forgive and why, because he wants his friend to always owe him for hurting him once and not forgive him, he leaves in his heart the hurt that hurt him over time, so that this problem remains open that his friend will always have to ask Sorry.
And so also many times a person is seen doing good to his friend, after doing good to a friend the friend comes and says thank you for the good you have done to me, many people answer should not even say thank you, it is nothing.
And why answer so, but the answer is that man never wants to be returned thanks for a favor he has done, because he wants it to always remain open for thanks and thanks, that there will never be an end to that thanks.
Thus is the nature of man, not to forgive man for evil and to say that he does not need forgiveness, and for the good that he does not need thanks, that these things will always remain open and will always remain indebted to man.
And this is what God teaches the opposite to the children of Israel, "and you will command the children of Israel" as I illuminate the world for them, that they will illuminate for me a small lamp. Supposedly and a lamp is lit for him afterwards.A man who does not work on his virtues, his virtues will take him to a great destruction like no other.
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