“For the matter is very close to you in your mouth and in your heart to do it.” (Devarim 30:14)
I cannot hold myself back from recording an amazing thing I found in the Yalkut on this parshah — a story about Eliyahu Hanavi. It is a great source of encouragement that will make it impossible for us to shirk our responsibility to serve Hashem with our hearts no matter what situation we are in.
This is what it says: “Once I [Eliyahu HaNavi] was walking and a certain man found me. He was mocking and deriding my words. I said to him ‘What will you respond to your Creator on the Day of Judgment?’ He said to me ‘I was not given wisdom and understanding to learn.’$$separate quotes$$” (Michtav Me’Eliyahu by Rav Eliyahu Dessler)
“What will you respond to your Creator on the Day of Judgment?”
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