It takes a clear sense of self to envision a better you
Mrs. Shira Hochheimer sees Shlomo Hamelech’s timeless words as a guide to improving ourselves, which will in turn improve our relationship with our spouse and our children.
Married life involves doing a lot of chores. Some say everything should be divided 50-50 between husband and wife. I cook, he cleans, I do the school rush, he does bedtime. Others say that each spouse needs to put in 100 percent to make it a good relationship.
Doing household chores doesn’t have to just be a necessity for functioning, it can be a means to becoming an Eishes Chayil. Before you hate me, let me explain.
We know that doing chesed is a central and essential goal of Torah life. Rabi Simlai (Sotah 14b) points out that the Torah begins with chesed — one of the first stories in the Torah is of Hashem clothing Adam Harishon, even though he had just sinned — and ends with the chesed of Hashem burying Moshe Rabbeinu. In Ahavas Chesed, the Chofetz Chaim explains that by bookending the Torah with chesed, Hashem is highlighting that chesed is a primary goal of Torah.
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