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We have to pay Honey and milk

ליקוטי שמואל | December 10, 2025

We must know that the world is not a wasteland, a person comes to this world and asks: "Master of the world, I want a livelihood, I want health, I want ... I want to..." And the Holy One, blessed be He, says: "Do you want to? –Please! Do you want more? No problem, take it! But you should know that later you will have to be accountable for everything you took!

In the book, Yisha Chen illustrates a wonderful parable that reflects the frustration of those people who ask and ask and do not fulfill the commandments: The parable of a villager who grew wheat in his field, milled it in his house, and made bread from it to eat. All his life he ate only what grew in his field, he never knew what a "restaurant" was. One day the villager left the village and went to the city. When the villager arrived in the city, He saw people sitting on the sidewalk and eating in the markets and in the streets. The villager continued to walk around the street, and suddenly he saw a man who had entered a place called a restaurant, sat down on a chair and began to eat. After a few minutes, the villager heard the same man say to the waiter: "Bring me meat, too," "Bring me a salad," "Bring me pickles." And in fact, the waiter brought him everything he wanted. The villager wondered, how is it possible for a person to enter a restaurant, sit on a chair, and ask to be brought to eat, and whatever he wants is given to him?! Wonderful! The villager thought to himself: "Why do I have to suffer so much in order to get food in the village, isn't it a waste of time and labor? I will come to live in the city and they will serve me whenever I want to eat."

The villager sat down at the table, and immediately the waiter approached him and said, "Yes, sir, what are you asking for?" The villager was amazed, he had not yet spoken, and he was already being asked what he was asking. The villager said to him: "What do you mean, what am I asking?! Bring me meat, bring me fish, bring me poultry, bring me... Bring me..." And so he ordered more food and more drinks, and ate and drank. When the villager finished eating, the waiter approached him with a small note in his hand, placed the note on the table, the villager glanced at the note and was amazed to see that not only did they bring him to eat but they also wanted to pay him the excessive amount stated on the note, he sat and waited to receive the money, but what was astonished to see the waiter who approached him and told him when he wanted to pay. And the villager was surprised: "What to pay?!" He said to him: "My dear, this is the price of such and such, and this is the price of such and such, and the total cost of your meal is 3,000 shekels. And I realized that I was doing him a favor by eating here, and now you are telling me that you have to pay?!!!"

How poor the villager is, he thought that in this place we eat, have fun, have fun, and walk, but in the end he realizes that we pay before we leave, we have to pay for every pleasure and pleasure. From here we take the moral for ourselves, that we must pay for each and every request, we ask for sustenance, and God gives. We ask for honor, and God honors. We ask for health, and God heals, and what do we pay?! And do we think that we received it for nothing?! We have to pay! There is no lawlessness in this world!

We must know that the world is not a wasteland, a person comes to this world and asks: "Master of the world, I want a livelihood, I want health, I want ... I want to..." And the Holy One, blessed be He, says: "Do you want to? –Please! Do you want more? No problem, take it! But you should know that later you will have to be accountable for everything you took!

In the book, Yisha Chen illustrates a wonderful parable that reflects the frustration of those people who ask and ask and do not fulfill the commandments: The parable of a villager who grew wheat in his field, milled it in his house, and made bread from it to eat. All his life he ate only what grew in his field, he never knew what a "restaurant" was. One day the villager left the village and went to the city. When the villager arrived in the city, He saw people sitting on the sidewalk and eating in the markets and in the streets. The villager continued to walk around the street, and suddenly he saw a man who had entered a place called a restaurant, sat down on a chair and began to eat. After a few minutes, the villager heard the same man say to the waiter: "Bring me meat, too," "Bring me a salad," "Bring me pickles." And in fact, the waiter brought him everything he wanted. The villager wondered, how is it possible for a person to enter a restaurant, sit on a chair, and ask to be brought to eat, and whatever he wants is given to him?! Wonderful! The villager thought to himself: "Why do I have to suffer so much in order to get food in the village, isn't it a waste of time and labor? I will come to live in the city and they will serve me whenever I want to eat."

The villager sat down at the table, and immediately the waiter approached him and said, "Yes, sir, what are you asking for?" The villager was amazed, he had not yet spoken, and he was already being asked what he was asking. The villager said to him: "What do you mean, what am I asking?! Bring me meat, bring me fish, bring me poultry, bring me... Bring me..." And so he ordered more food and more drinks, and ate and drank. When the villager finished eating, the waiter approached him with a small note in his hand, placed the note on the table, the villager glanced at the note and was amazed to see that not only did they bring him to eat but they also wanted to pay him the excessive amount stated on the note, he sat and waited to receive the money, but what was astonished to see the waiter who approached him and told him when he wanted to pay. And the villager was surprised: "What to pay?!" He said to him: "My dear, this is the price of such and such, and this is the price of such and such, and the total cost of your meal is 3,000 shekels. And I realized that I was doing him a favor by eating here, and now you are telling me that you have to pay?!!!"

How poor the villager is, he thought that in this place we eat, have fun, have fun, and walk, but in the end he realizes that we pay before we leave, we have to pay for every pleasure and pleasure. From here we take the moral for ourselves, that we must pay for each and every request, we ask for sustenance, and God gives. We ask for honor, and God honors. We ask for health, and God heals, and what do we pay?! And do we think that we received it for nothing?! We have to pay! There is no lawlessness in this world!

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