{"id":98013,"date":"2022-11-19T22:00:09","date_gmt":"2022-11-19T20:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/?p=98013"},"modified":"2022-11-19T22:00:09","modified_gmt":"2022-11-19T20:00:09","slug":"offering-my-apology-on-the-altar-of-torah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/offering-my-apology-on-the-altar-of-torah\/","title":{"rendered":"Offering My Apology on the Altar of Torah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Offering My Apology on the Altar of Torah<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sometimes, even an ordinary conversation carries the weight of a Torah topic.<\/p>\n<p>One day found me very harried and hassled about our institutions. I was very tense. Just then, a fellow Jew approached me with a request. I answered him curtly, in an impatient manner.<\/p>\n<p>After I had calmed down somewhat, I recalled the incident. Was it this man\u2019s fault that I was busy with other matters? Why should he suffer or feel hurt because of me?<\/p>\n<p>I was very pained by this matter. I always try to help any Jew in need in a pleasant manner and truly participate in his predicament. And now I had hurt the feelings of a fellow Jew. The matter gave me no rest, and at the closing of Tefillat Minchah, I added a request. \u201c<em>Ribbono shel Olam<\/em>,\u201d I began, \u201cI truly regret the way I acted toward this man. Please help me find him quickly, so that I can ask his forgiveness and appease him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I looked around for the man and saw him walking by. I hurried over to him and succeeded in mollifying him and obtaining his forgiveness for my unpleasant attitude toward him earlier.<\/p>\n<p><em>This was certainly not a Torah talk. Yet, without doubt, it was fulfillment of Hashem\u2019s will. He surely wanted me to make amends. Therefore, it can be considered a Torah conversation.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Offering My Apology on the Altar of Torah Sometimes, even an ordinary conversation carries the weight of a Torah topic. One day found me very harried and hassled about our institutions. I was very tense. Just then, a fellow Jew approached me with a request. I answered him curtly, in an impatient manner. After I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":27163,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1052],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bitul-torah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98013","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\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98013\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}