{"id":98489,"date":"2022-11-20T01:37:46","date_gmt":"2022-11-19T23:37:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/?p=98489"},"modified":"2022-11-20T01:37:46","modified_gmt":"2022-11-19T23:37:46","slug":"the-price-of-peace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/the-price-of-peace\/","title":{"rendered":"The Price of Peace"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Price of Peace<\/strong><\/p>\n

A New Yorker phoned me up to ask for advice with marital problems. I asked what sort of problems he had, and he explained, \u201cThere 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\u2019t know what to do.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cHow do you think I can help you?\u201d I asked.<\/p>\n

\u201cBless me that I should find tickets for the show,\u201d was his immediate answer.<\/p>\n

It hurt me to observe this Jew\u2019s 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\u2019s good graces, I offered, \u201cWhat about the black market? Did you try to get a ticket there?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cEach ticket costs three thousand dollars on the black market,\u201d he replied.<\/p>\n

\u201cWill you buy the tickets at this exaggerated price?\u201d I pressed.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t see any other choice,\u201d he said, defeated.<\/p>\n

I was suddenly struck by the irony of it all. \u201cTell me,\u201d I began, \u201cwhen 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 \u2018lazy bum\u2019 then?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cNever.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYour wife is making a fuss over the theater, which is nothing but a bunch of lies!\u201d<\/p>\n

The man agreed with me completely and asked what he should do.<\/p>\n

\u201cFirst 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!<\/p>\n

\u201cAfter 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.\u201d<\/p>\n

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.<\/em><\/p>\n

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