{"id":98125,"date":"2022-11-19T23:11:37","date_gmt":"2022-11-19T21:11:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/?p=98125"},"modified":"2022-11-19T23:11:37","modified_gmt":"2022-11-19T21:11:37","slug":"the-magnetic-force-of-a-good-word","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/the-magnetic-force-of-a-good-word\/","title":{"rendered":"The Magnetic Force of a Good Word"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Magnetic Force of a Good Word<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When I was yet a young boy, I was sent to faraway England. Due to the distance, I didn\u2019t see my family for seven years straight! After this time, I returned home to Morocco and the family I so missed. I was surrounded by love and warmth. Then it was time to return to the yeshiva. But, obviously, my return was very difficult. I had enjoyed the easy life at home and many comforts which were lacking in yeshiva life. After only a few days, I grew terribly homesick and wanted nothing more than to return home.<\/p>\n<p>During that difficult period, my teacher, the tzaddik, Rabbi Chaim Shmuel Lopian, zt\u201dl, supported me emotionally. He encouraged me to remain in the yeshiva. For this, I am indebted to him my entire life. The yeshiva also started studying a <em>sugya<\/em> which I found interesting, and it drew me back into the portals of the Beit Hamidrash.<\/p>\n<p><em>Without my mentor\u2019s support at that crucial time, together with the excitement generated by the sugya that was being studied then, who knows where I would be today? I am forever grateful to the Ribbono shel Olam, Who sent me His good messengers and kept me sheltered in the tent of Torah.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Magnetic Force of a Good Word When I was yet a young boy, I was sent to faraway England. Due to the distance, I didn\u2019t see my family for seven years straight! After this time, I returned home to Morocco and the family I so missed. I was surrounded by love and warmth. Then [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"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":[1059],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gratitude"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98125","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=98125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98125\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}