A wealthy individual once presented me with an expensive and valuable gift. It was wrapped in layers of paper, protecting it from damage. I opened them, one by one, until I reached a small box containing a beautiful designer watch, worth tens of thousands of dollars. I instinctively knew I would never wear it. People would wonder where a rabbi received such a pricey piece of jewelry. Since it is forbidden for a Jew to place himself under suspicion, I thanked the man for the gift, and then delicately asked whether he could redeem it for its monetary value, which I directly transferred to Torah institutions.<\/p>\n
This was the road I took when another philanthropist offered me a luxury Mercedes. It never entered my mind that I would enter such a car. I asked him, as well, to donate this gift to Torah institutions. Baruch Hashem, he agreed, and in this way, we merited increasing Hashem\u2019s glory<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A wealthy individual once presented me with an expensive and valuable gift. It was wrapped in layers of paper, protecting it from damage. I opened them, one by one, until I reached a small box containing a beautiful designer watch, worth tens of thousands of dollars. I instinctively knew I would never wear it. People […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":30862,"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":[1112],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-controlling-ones-passions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99399","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=99399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99399\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}