{"id":99186,"date":"2022-11-20T05:58:53","date_gmt":"2022-11-20T03:58:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/?p=99186"},"modified":"2022-11-24T23:10:22","modified_gmt":"2022-11-24T21:10:22","slug":"doing-as-we-are-bidden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/doing-as-we-are-bidden\/","title":{"rendered":"Doing As We Are Bidden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Doing As We Are Bidden<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A fund-raising event on behalf of a <em>tzedakah<\/em> cause ran an auction in order to help their cause. To encourage people to open their wallets, I stood up and pledged a considerable amount to this cause. Hushed murmurings of wonder rippled through the audience. Afterward, I was asked why I had offered such a large sum of money.<\/p>\n<ol start=\"149\">\n<li>Dinner on behalf of Chernobyl institutions, France<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>\u201cWhen one has a personal inner desire to do a specific mitzvah, Hashem gives him a shove in the right direction and even offers him reward for this. We know that \u2018the reward for a mitzvah is not in this world\u2019 (<em>Kiddushin<\/em> 39b). Reward awaits us in the World to Come. But this is only regarding one\u2019s intention to perform a mitzvah and the first step he takes to accomplish it. But for actually executing the mitzvah, which he does only with the help of Hashem, a person is rewarded while yet in this world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>I did not have long to wait to see returns on my generous pledge. Hashem arranged for the same sum of money to come to me soon afterward. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Doing As We Are Bidden A fund-raising event on behalf of a tzedakah cause ran an auction in order to help their cause. To encourage people to open their wallets, I stood up and pledged a considerable amount to this cause. Hushed murmurings of wonder rippled through the audience. Afterward, I was asked why I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":99596,"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":[1106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-reward-and-punishment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99186","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=99186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99186\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}