There was an old woman in Jerusalem. She was righteous and wise, and she would choose for herself mitzvot that have no demands. When she was a property owner, she did kindness in her money: charity in secret, kindness in secrecy, and no one knows what she is doing, but everyone knows that she is a woman of deeds, or she visits the sick, or she gathers the children of Israel to distribute to them pastries, in order to answer their blessing "Amen." After the old woman gave her money to the Gemach association, and we would not leave her any of her money except for her food, she began to do kindness to her body. She walks through the alleys of Jerusalem, belted in a long apron, decorated with two pockets, one pocket on the right and the other on the left.
A prayer is arranged in her hand and her lips move and recite verses of Psalms.
And what kindness did she choose to do with her bent body?- She walks in the markets and streets and gathers "names" scattered across the earth and saves them from disgrace, and does kindness to the holy names that are swallowed up among the torn "names." She tucks the torn "names" into her right pocket in her apron. And the other pocket is what it used for?- In this pocket it holds every peel of fruit or vegetable, or shards of glass, or any obstacle thrown in the public domain, which people may encounter. And she – the old woman – picks them up from the ground and places them in the left pocket of the apron, so that people will not stumble upon them, and the babies will not slip in their run and be harmed. She would hide the "Shemot" in the genizah at the bottom of the bimah on which the Torah scroll is placed to be read, and she would take the Klipot and the discarded obstacles to a place where there are no human beings. This old woman lived a long life, and before she passed away, she went up to the beit din in Horvat Rabbi Yehuda the Chassid and asked to write her will. And they wondered: What did she have for the team? Perhaps she found a treasure?
They wrote to her, and they did not write much, that she asked only one request: After her long life, when her soul returns to the heavenly treasures, her apron, which is decorated with two pockets, will be used as a shroud for her body. He served her in life and will serve her after her death... And they wrote, and signed and sent her will to the Chevra Kadisha.
Not many days passed, and she died of old age. The people of Jerusalem followed her bed and praised her, and the father of the court eulogized her and read her will... A few days later, she appeared in a dream before the head of the court and told him: "In Alma Dexot, they weighed her winnings and weighed the pockets in the balances of Paz, and there was a pocket of the left, which was used to remove an obstacle – deciding everything for the life of the World to Come."
