{"id":98497,"date":"2022-11-20T01:42:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-19T23:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/?p=98497"},"modified":"2022-11-20T01:42:00","modified_gmt":"2022-11-19T23:42:00","slug":"no-stranger-to-mitzvot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/no-stranger-to-mitzvot\/","title":{"rendered":"No Stranger to Mitzvot"},"content":{"rendered":"

No Stranger to Mitzvot<\/strong><\/p>\n

When I was in Argentina, an unaffiliated couple asked me to bless their son with a complete recovery. I asked the father to begin laying tefillin, as a form of recompense, but he would not hear of it. I spent a long time explaining the virtues of this mitzvah and the merit of the Jew who upholds it. Finally, the man was convinced and accepted it upon himself.<\/p>\n

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  1. Dinner on behalf of the Yeshurun community, Argentina<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Then I began working on his wife. I encouraged her to begin observing taharat hamishpachah. <\/em>In this area, too, I was required to invest great effort in order to explain the qualities of this mitzvah and its reward. She, too, eventually accepted my words.<\/p>\n

    When I asked the woman for her Jewish name, I was shocked to hear that she had a gentile name. \u201cA Jewish daughter should not be called by a name of the nations,\u201d I reprimanded her.<\/p>\n

    \u201cBut I am a gentile!\u201d she replied, with all equanimity.<\/p>\n

    I fell into a state of shock. But then I laughed at my herculean efforts to convince a Christian woman to accept the halachot of taharat hamishpachah<\/em>.<\/p>\n

    I got over my initial shock and focused my efforts on encouraging the couple to divorce immediately. This time, I took pains to explain the severity of intermarriage.<\/p>\n

    This incident taught me a tremendous lesson. When a person sincerely introspects, even if he is a gentile, he can be encouraged to observe mitzvot. If this is the case with gentiles, all the more so is it true regarding the pure neshamah of a Jew, which is hewn from under the Heavenly Throne. When a Jew makes a personal accounting of his actions, he will surely arrive at the truth and merit returning to Torah and mitzvot. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    No Stranger to Mitzvot When I was in Argentina, an unaffiliated couple asked me to bless their son with a complete recovery. I asked the father to begin laying tefillin, as a form of recompense, but he would not hear of it. I spent a long time explaining the virtues of this mitzvah and the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":25358,"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":[1072],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-introspection"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98497","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=98497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98497\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}