{"id":98756,"date":"2022-11-20T03:35:14","date_gmt":"2022-11-20T01:35:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/?p=98756"},"modified":"2022-11-20T03:35:14","modified_gmt":"2022-11-20T01:35:14","slug":"good-deeds-and-sins-one-at-the-expense-of-the-other","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/good-deeds-and-sins-one-at-the-expense-of-the-other\/","title":{"rendered":"Good Deeds and Sins \u2013 One at the Expense of the Other"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Good Deeds and Sins \u2013 One at the Expense of the Other<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A man I knew once came to ask for my blessing. I knew that he had stolen a huge sum of money and had not yet paid it back. But this man did not see any contradiction between stealing and asking for a tzaddik\u2019s blessing.<\/p>\n<p>The man did not see anything wrong, but I did. Chazal teach us in Avot (4:2), \u201cOne mitzvah leads to another, and one sin leads to another.\u201d How can a person do a mitzvah while involved in an aveirah? Shouldn\u2019t the mitzvah pull him in the direction of more mitzvot?<\/p>\n<p><em>The answer is that not all mitzvot lead to more mitzvot. Only mitzvot done perfectly have the power to draw a person to do more mitzvot. But mitzvot done for personal pride, or half-heartedly, do not have this power<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good Deeds and Sins \u2013 One at the Expense of the Other A man I knew once came to ask for my blessing. I knew that he had stolen a huge sum of money and had not yet paid it back. But this man did not see any contradiction between stealing and asking for a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":27476,"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-98756","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\/98756","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=98756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98756\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}