Consensus

Someone phones after Shabbos.

“I don’t get it” she says “I said the whole book of Tehillim and before Shabbos went out I accidentally turned on the light.”

She waits for some response.

“How could this happen to me? I thought it’s supposed to work that mitzvah goreres mitzvah? One mitzvah leads to another?”

I don’t want to answer because I don’t want to sound preachy or give the wrong advice. It’s the question I think we all ask every so often when we think we’ve done our most but we don’t see the results we want.

So I decide to take a poll.

First call: Yocheved.

I present the dilemma. “What do you think?” I ask.