{"id":98774,"date":"2022-11-20T03:42:25","date_gmt":"2022-11-20T01:42:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/?p=98774"},"modified":"2022-11-20T03:42:25","modified_gmt":"2022-11-20T01:42:25","slug":"resolute-in-her-decision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/resolute-in-her-decision\/","title":{"rendered":"Resolute in Her Decision"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Resolute in Her Decision<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A woman once called me up to say that her newborn was having trouble breathing and was in critical condition. She requested my blessing for his complete recovery. In order for my blessing to take effect, I asked the woman to undertake the mitzvah of <em>tzeniut<\/em>, like all good Jewish daughters. <em>B\u2019ezrat Hashem<\/em>, in the merit of my fathers, her son would recuperate from his difficult condition. The woman did as I asked, and her baby\u2019s condition improved.<\/p>\n<p>But after some time, his condition worsened. The mother phoned me again, in a fury. \u201cIf the child dies, G-d forbid, I will break my resolution of <em>tzeniut<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I was very pained at her words. I told her, \u201cIn Tehillim (24:3) we read, \u2018Who may ascend the mountain of Hashem, and who may stand in the place of His sanctity?\u2019 In this world, there are two types of tests. There are challenges sent by Hashem in order to awaken a person to do teshuvah for his sins. These are referred to as \u2018the mountain of Hashem.\u2019 And there are others which are sent to test his level of <em>emunah<\/em> and piety toward his Maker. These are called, \u2018the place of His sanctity.\u2019 It is certainly difficult to ascend to the heights of spirituality. But it is manifold times harder to remain at the level one has achieved.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou faced the first type of challenge at your son\u2019s birth. You faced it admirably, accepting upon yourself more stringency in <em>tzeniut<\/em>. Now Hashem is testing you with a different type of challenge. He wants to see if you are consistent in your resolution, or if it was just a passing whim, undertaken temporarily for your son\u2019s recovery.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>B\u2019ezrat Hashem<\/em>, when you show determination to unconditionally uphold your pledge of <em>tzeniut<\/em>, in spite of your <em>Yetzer Hara<\/em> seducing you to stop, you will merit the recovery of your son.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Baruch Hashem, this woman withstood her trial and even became more greatly strengthened in her pure yirat Shamayim. She merited her son returning to the living.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Resolute in Her Decision A woman once called me up to say that her newborn was having trouble breathing and was in critical condition. She requested my blessing for his complete recovery. In order for my blessing to take effect, I asked the woman to undertake the mitzvah of tzeniut, like all good Jewish daughters. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":28027,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1087],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-challenges"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98774","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\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98774\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}