The Price of Peace
A New Yorker phoned me up to ask for advice with marital problems. I asked what sort of problems he had, and he explained, “There is a performance at a Broadway theater which my wife insists on attending. But by the time I managed to go purchase tickets, they were all sold out. Now my wife is angry at me and calls me a lazy bum. I honestly don’t know what to do.”
“How do you think I can help you?” I asked.
“Bless me that I should find tickets for the show,” was his immediate answer.
It hurt me to observe this Jew’s obsession with the theater, a place of immorality. I refused to have any part in it. When I saw his stubbornness to obtain an admission card, the ticket to his wife’s good graces, I offered, “What about the black market? Did you try to get a ticket there?”
“Each ticket costs three thousand dollars on the black market,” he replied.
“Will you buy the tickets at this exaggerated price?” I pressed.
“I don’t see any other choice,” he said, defeated.
I was suddenly struck by the irony of it all. “Tell me,” I began, “when you go late to the Beit Hakeneset, or refrain from going altogether, does your wife show any sign of annoyance? Does she call you a ‘lazy bum’ then?”
“Never.”
“Your wife is making a fuss over the theater, which is nothing but a bunch of lies!”
The man agreed with me completely and asked what he should do.
“First of all, do a little introspection. Examine the areas in which you are lazy. In order to appease your wife for your laziness toward immoral matters, you are ready to pay any inflated price. But to appease Hashem for your laziness in matters of holiness, which endure forever, you are not willing to pay a red cent! You are not even interested in coming on time to tefillah!
“After you spend time working on the trait of alacrity, you will acquire marital harmony with your wife, and you will be at peace with Hashem, as well. You will be richly rewarded both in this world as well as the Next.”
The man accepted my words. He recognized where he had gone wrong. He refused to purchase the tickets to promiscuity. Instead, he was sold on serving Hashem with enthusiasm.
Yesterday, the Tzadik Rabbi David Pinto shlitah gave a shiur in the city of Modiin, in the presence of the city's Rabbi, Harav Eliyahou Amar shlita , to strengthen people in Torah, Emunah, and Yirat Shamayim.
Shiur link in Hebrew :
Some photos of the shiur :
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