In the Hayom-Yom of today we are taught how big it is to H”S when we extend a kindness and give to someone else.
The Tzemak Tzedek was one day on his way to Shul when someone asked him for a loan, it being a market day and he could then buy and sell and earn something. The Rebbe asked him to come back after he finished praying and continued on his way. When he was in the Synagogue he suddenly realized that the poor fellow needed the loan now, so the Rebbe returned home, got some money, sought out the fellow with great difficulty, gave him the money and then went to pray. The Alter Rebbe (his diseased grandfather) appeared to him on a vision, beaming, and lauded him for his thoughtfulness. The Alter Rebbe had not appeared to him for quite some time before this incident;it was the favor to another that merited the appearance of the Alter Rebbe.
To this the Tzemak Tzedek once told his son: “for helping someone in his livelihood, even to earn just 70 kopeks (a small value Russian coin) on a calf, all the gates to the Heavenly Chambers are open for him.
When you give you can never go wrong!
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