{"id":98671,"date":"2022-11-20T03:02:43","date_gmt":"2022-11-20T01:02:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/?p=98671"},"modified":"2022-11-20T03:02:43","modified_gmt":"2022-11-20T01:02:43","slug":"the-ticket-to-reverence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/the-ticket-to-reverence\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ticket to Reverence"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Ticket to Reverence<\/strong><\/p>\n

After my parents emigrated from Morocco to Eretz Yisrael, I was learning in a yeshiva in France. I would come occasionally to visit my parents and family in the Holy Land. Father would always hold on to my passport and ticket for safekeeping. On one visit, I asked my father to give me back my documents, as I had to confirm my date of departure in the travel agency in Tel Aviv. Father placed these precious items in a bag and asked that I should not remove them, so that they would not get lost.<\/p>\n

As soon as I stepped out of the house, the first thing I did was find a garbage pail to throw the bag into. I placed the passport and ticket in my inside pocket. Why does Father worry so?\u201d I thought. \u201cAm I a still a little boy who loses his things?\u201d<\/p>\n

I arrived at the office in Tel Aviv. Imagine my chagrin when I stuck my hand into my jacket pocket to extricate the valuable items, only to find that they were gone! My passport, ticket, and wallet were things of the past.<\/p>\n

Suddenly, I remembered Father\u2019s warning. I was truly remorseful and had no idea how I would face him. Since I had nothing more to do in Tel Aviv, I made my way home. As soon as I turned the key in the door, I heard my father\u2019s rebuke, \u201cWhy didn\u2019t you listen to me and keep everything in the bag?!\u201d<\/p>\n

With lowered head, I apologized. But Father did not give me much time to confess. \u201cHurry downstairs,\u201d he ordered, \u201cand look by the gas balloons. There you will find your lost items.\u201d But I stood rooted to my spot. \u201cIs Father playing a joke on me? Many people pass by our house throughout the day. It is now past 10:00 p.m. Do you really think my things sat still and simply waited for me to come and collect them?\u201d<\/p>\n

Father remained silent. I went to do as I was told, in spite of my doubts. I retraced my steps, and there, exactly where Father had told me to look, I found my passport, ticket, and wallet, strewn about. I ran back up with my treasures in hand. I could barely contain myself and asked Father how he knew exactly where these items were.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am not a prophet, but I had a feeling you would remove the things from the bag. Therefore, I prayed to Hashem that your things should remain intact.\u201d<\/p>\n

I learned a tremendous lesson. My items went lost as a punishment for not obeying my father. I thought I was smarter than he. And my virtuous father, in spite of his knowledge that I would disobey, did not hold it against me, but prayed that I find my items and not be harmed by my rash behavior. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Ticket to Reverence After my parents emigrated from Morocco to Eretz Yisrael, I was learning in a yeshiva in France. I would come occasionally to visit my parents and family in the Holy Land. Father would always hold on to my passport and ticket for safekeeping. On one visit, I asked my father to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":25387,"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":[1081],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-honoring-parents"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98671","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=98671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98671\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}