My neighbor is a wise person. In the area in which we live there is a great demand for apartments for Shabbos for all sorts of events. He was about to travel abroad, and he told me, “Look, I’m leaving my home for a long period of time, and it’s a pity for my apartment to be empty when there are people looking to be hosted in the area. I’m asking you, if possible, to use the apartment whenever you need it, and also to give it to others to enjoy it until I return.”
I was pleased with my neighbor’s generosity. Thanks to him I was able to invite my married children for Shabbos, and to enable others to enjoy this favor as well. One day, the neighbor who lives under this neighbor’s apartment realized that there was a leak coming from the apartment. “Can you check if everything there is okay?” he asked me.
I checked. Everything seemed fine, without a hint of a problem, but the next Shabbos someone stayed there, and he noticed something strange. He discovered a lot of water in the linen closet, and all the linens were wet.
I called my neighbor who was abroad and told him about the problem I’d discovered. With his permission, I took all the linens out to be washed and aired out, and thus they were saved from irreparable mildew.
This neighbor wanted to do chessed for others, and at the end of the day, through this chessed, he was zocheh to have chessed done for him.
