{"id":97833,"date":"2022-11-19T20:19:36","date_gmt":"2022-11-19T18:19:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/?p=97833"},"modified":"2022-11-19T20:19:36","modified_gmt":"2022-11-19T18:19:36","slug":"unconditional-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/unconditional-love\/","title":{"rendered":"Unconditional Love"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Unconditional Love<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Two Jewish businessmen came to ask me for advice regarding their businesses. The first looked like a nice, Torah-observant Jew, while the other looked like he had no connection with the Torah or faith in Hashem.<\/p>\n<p>As soon as they walked in, I stood up and greeted the second man with a warm embrace. He was duly surprised, and said, \u201cWith all due respect to the Rav, I do not believe in G-d.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNonetheless,\u201d I replied, unfazed by his candor. \u201cYou are a Jew, the son of the King of the universe! And even if now you do not observe mitzvot, your ancestors were surely mitzvah-observant. <em>B\u2019ezrat Hashem<\/em>, one day, you or your children will return.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The two men took care of their business with me. I gave the believing Jew a heartfelt blessing for success. When his friend saw this, he asked to speak to me privately. He then asked me for a similar, sincere blessing.<\/p>\n<p>I placed both hands on his head and blessed him from the depths of my heart. The man was extremely moved and began to weep. In a burst of inspiration, he stated that he wished to lay tefillin and observe all of the other mitzvot. I instructed him how to go about it, explaining the way to uphold the Torah and its mitzvot.<\/p>\n<p><em>This meeting taught me a tremendous lesson. The small, insignificant act of displaying unconditional love toward one\u2019s fellow Jew has such far-reaching effects. It can even bring a person to teshuvah.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unconditional Love Two Jewish businessmen came to ask me for advice regarding their businesses. The first looked like a nice, Torah-observant Jew, while the other looked like he had no connection with the Torah or faith in Hashem. As soon as they walked in, I stood up and greeted the second man with a warm [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":27800,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1044],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-love-of-ones-fellow-man"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97833\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}