{"id":98750,"date":"2022-11-20T03:32:28","date_gmt":"2022-11-20T01:32:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/?p=98750"},"modified":"2022-11-20T03:32:28","modified_gmt":"2022-11-20T01:32:28","slug":"quality-labor-produces-quality-fruit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/quality-labor-produces-quality-fruit\/","title":{"rendered":"Quality Labor Produces Quality Fruit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Quality Labor Produces Quality Fruit<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>While in Paris a few days before the Sukkot festival, I noticed a Jew who looked quite satisfied with his beautiful <em>etrog<\/em>. I heard him telling himself, \u201cThis <em>etrog<\/em> is special.\u201d Great joy filled my heart as I thought, \u201cWho is like Your nation, Israel, who beautify the mitzvot, investing tremendous sums to serve You to the utmost.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But my joy was short-lived. The man continued his soliloquy, \u201cThis <em>etrog<\/em> is worthy of preparing fine jelly as soon as the holiday passes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I felt like a deflated balloon. I was filled with sadness. The <em>Yetzer Hara<\/em> managed to steal away the primary aspect of the mitzvah. When this man will make a blessing on his <em>etrog <\/em>on Sukkot, all of his thoughts will focus on the <em>etrog<\/em> jelly which he will prepare after the holiday. Since the mitzvah was not begun with proper intentions, it is of much lesser value that a mitzvah done <em>l\u2019shem Shamayim<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><em>I was saddened to hear this Jew\u2019s attitude toward the mitzvah of the Four Species. Although he obtained the finest etrog, he did not do the mitzvah in the finest way. What a shame<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quality Labor Produces Quality Fruit While in Paris a few days before the Sukkot festival, I noticed a Jew who looked quite satisfied with his beautiful etrog. I heard him telling himself, \u201cThis etrog is special.\u201d Great joy filled my heart as I thought, \u201cWho is like Your nation, Israel, who beautify the mitzvot, investing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":26132,"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":[1086],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mitzvot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98750","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=98750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98750\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}