Al Pi HaRav Darmoni shlit’a:
There was once a group of
non-Jews that kidnapped a poor Jew from the Jewish section of the village. They
went up to the Rabbi and said they would only return the guy only if the
village gathers up a large sum of money and gives it by a certain date and
time. The Mitzvah of Pidyon Shvuyim, returning
the prisoners of war, is huge so every Jew went out of their way to collect
money!
The Rabbi saw on the first date
the entire village gathered up a large percentage of the money needed! The
Rabbi told himself somethings wrong here. Something is off.
In the end of the week the Rabbi
went to the group of kidnappers and said he is not paying them even a single
dime. The Rabbi shouts: “He’s not even Jewish!”
The kidnappers were in shock:
How did you know?!
Long story short it breaks down
like this: whenever there is a big mission/Mitzvah that Hashem arranges for us,
there is always in life a chunk of Yetzer Hara that sticks to it. There is no
such thing as doing a Mitzvah with no spiritual challenge. The Yetzer Hara, the
evil inclination, wants us to always fail and be upset at having zero accomplishments.
Here the Rabbi saw immediately how quickly the Jews were gathering up money. If
it was a real Mitzvah that was needed to be accomplished, the Yetzer Hara would
not give the Jews the opportunity to succeed spiritually in gathering the money.
It did not make sense that they were collecting the money so quickly. Something
had to be off.
After a few days of deep thought
the Rabbi realized that simply the kidnapped person was not a Jew and it was a
big scam. We need to know also with ourselves: whenever we are entering a
Mitzvah whether big or small, we cannot give up! There willl be obstacles in
the way and there is a route to
success!
SHAVUA
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