One More Mitzvah | Rabbi Yoir Adler

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If we would appreciate the value of even the tiniest mitzvah, then the eight Sahara would have a very hard time to convince us to do something that's against Hashem's will. Reb Arieh Leib Shteinman, the Baal Shem Tov, used to try to inspire his talmidim to appreciate even a small mitzvah with the following story. The great and legendary Yismach Moshe once had a son that was unwell, and he sent a shliach, a messenger, to the sent a shliach, a messenger, to the kever of the great tzaddik Reb Elimelech of Lizhensk. And he told this shliach, "When you go to the kever, I'm not sure that Reb Elimelech will be at the kever at that given time, so you should do the following. Take out a prutah, a penny, from your pocket and say, 'I am giving this prutah l'ilui nishmas for the sake of the neshama that I'll be the first one that will rush to Reb Elimelech of Lizhensk and tell him that

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1. 0:06If we would appreciate the value of even the tiniest mitzvah, then the eight Sahara would…
2. 0:37sent a shliach, a messenger, to the kever of the great tzaddik Reb Elimelech of Lizhensk.…
3. 1:07Elimelech of Lizhensk and tell him that there's a shliach from the Yismach Moshe at your…
4. 1:37kever." Said Reb Arieh Leib Shteinman, "We don't value what it means to give a penny…
5. 2:07If we think to ourselves, what does it take to give a penny to tzedakah? Not…
6. 2:38strength, and we say no, we resist, we can't begin to fathom, we can't begin to…
7. 3:10Ribono shel Olam's kedusha in this world by resisting a temptation, and he'll think to himself,…

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