(Yisha Bracha, Issue 442)
In the book When the Sun Rises with his heroism, a wonderful story is told that we have learned from Bina. A certain family lived in the Old City of Jerusalem. At that time, a laundry day for the family was one of the most difficult jobs in the household.
Today's housewives with their automatic and semi-automatic washing machines cannot imagine the difficulties involved in this strenuous work for which almost all the members of the household were freed. Well, at a good and successful time, after about six hours of hard work, The housewife hung two ropes full of laundry against the sun on two beams along the yard.
At noon, one of the neighbors entered the yard as she was walking to her house. For some reason, the two diagonal beams and clotheslines hanging on them seemed to her to be disturbing her in her walking, and that the passage in the yard was not wide enough for her to pass through. Instead of accepting this with understanding and maintaining human relations between neighbors, and bending her head a little to pass in an instant, as the saying goes, she was attacked and possessed by a binge of anger and revenge. She quickly entered her house, She grabbed scissors, went out into the yard and cut the two laundry ropes. All the clean and clean laundry after hard work fell noisily on the unpaved ground of the yard. The woman with the laundry stood for a moment stunned in the face of the harsh test. According to human nature, she should have burst into shouting and cursing at her neighbor and her evil action. All the dark passions were burning within her like a restrained fire, but the woman suddenly drew tremendous powers from the fountain of her pure and pure faith. Within fateful, raging seconds, she overcame the bitter test, blocked her lips and justified the judgment of Heaven upon her. Apparently I deserve it, And my trouble shall be my atonement!
She collected the laundry from the country, washed and removed the dirt, connected and tied the ropes, and went to the plot of the "Batei Mahsa" neighborhood and hung the laundry again in the big square. In the evening, she brought the dry laundry home in good spirits! The trial has not yet come to an end. The woman's husband returned home after evening prayers, and she does not tell him what happened to her in the yard! It seems that the trial The second is greater than the first, because "worry is in the heart of a man who will make her happy." What's more, such incidents are going to happen to her in a few days from that bad neighbor. But she restrains herself again and remains silent. The matter would have remained unknown, had it not been for the neighbor herself who entered her friend's house in shame at night and asked to forgive her for that ugly incident. She said that at the beginning of the night her child suddenly had a very high fever, and she attributed it to heaven for her wickedness this afternoon.
That self-righteous woman of spirit was rewarded, and next year she had a son, who today is one of the great Torah scholars of Jerusalem, the Holy City. How happy this woman felt after that moment, when she could burst into rage and cry hysterically, but she preferred the way of the Torah: to stop in times of quarrel!! in the end she did not regret her wise march. And if that were not enough, Go out and see how wonderful a counselor has gone in praise of a man and a woman who restrain one another, so that for this they will merit the good in this and the next. And now let's calculate which is better? To remain silent and win a precious treasure or to answer and be a "winner" for a moment? The end of an act is in the first thought.
