See, I have set before you this day life and good, and death and evil. {30:15}

“Good”, not “life”, is the most significant word in this verse. This indicates that one should not do good in order to live; rather, one should live in order to do good. – Reb Menachem Mendel of Kotzk (Inspiration - Rabbi Naftali H. Ganzweig)

Reprinted from this week’s email of Reb Yedidye Hirtenfeld’s whY I Matter parsha sheet for the Young Israel of Midwood in Brooklyn.