{"id":98306,"date":"2022-11-20T00:25:26","date_gmt":"2022-11-19T22:25:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/?p=98306"},"modified":"2022-11-20T00:25:26","modified_gmt":"2022-11-19T22:25:26","slug":"dont-wash-your-hands-of-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/dont-wash-your-hands-of-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Don\u2019t Wash Your Hands of It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Don\u2019t Wash Your Hands of It<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A man related that he was diagnosed with cancer. His doctors recommended chemotherapy, a difficult and drawn-out process, which would take about six months.<\/p>\n<p>I asked this man if he was scrupulous in washing his hands every morning, upon awakening. He replied in the negative. I instructed him to take this practice upon himself. The spirit of impurity which clings to a person who does not wash his hands can be extremely harmful. The man accepted my words and undertook to keep this mitzvah.<\/p>\n<p>After some time, the man returned to me and ebulliently informed me that, <em>Baruch Hashem<\/em>, his tumor was noticeably reduced, and his doctors told him he could forego the difficult treatments.<\/p>\n<p><em>Often, we regard regular, daily mitzvot as simple and worthless. Infrequent, rare mitzvot are granted our esteem and admiration. But this is a serious mistake. It is specifically the mitzvot which one \u201ctreads with his heel\u201d which have the power to effect miracles, for their merit is immeasurably great.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don\u2019t Wash Your Hands of It A man related that he was diagnosed with cancer. His doctors recommended chemotherapy, a difficult and drawn-out process, which would take about six months. I asked this man if he was scrupulous in washing his hands every morning, upon awakening. He replied in the negative. I instructed him to [&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":[1065],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-merit-of-mitzvot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98306","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=98306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98306\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}