LESSON 30: RECOGNIZING WHEN YOU ARE G-D’S MESSENGER
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THREE PARTS TO A PERSON’S INCOME
LAST CLASS, WE DISCUSSED G-D IS THE SOURCE FOR OUR GRATITUDE, THOSE ON EARTH ARE MERELY HIS REPRESENTATIVE TO ACT IN THE NATURAL COURSE OF THE WORLD.
THE WISE MAN CHOOSES THE RIGHT PATH TO MAKE MONEY, PAYS HIS EMPLOYEES AND KNOWS WHAT’S LEFT IS FOR HIS OWN SUSTENANCE.
A FOOLISH MAN MAKES THREE MISTAKES:
- THE MAN MAKE HIS LIVING THROUGH ILLEGAL AND SHAMEFUL MEANS. HE DOESN’T REALIZE THAT BY USING HIS EFFORTS IN LEGITMATE WORK WHICH CONFORMS TO TORAH LAW, HE COULD MAKE THE SAME OR GREATER AMOUNTS OF MONEY AND ALSO RECEIVE REWARD IN THE WORLD TO COME.
- A FOOLISH MAN BELIEVES THAT ALL THE MONEY HE MADE IS FOR HIM ALONE AND DOESN’T RECOGNIZE THAT HIS INCOME IS DIVIDED INTO THREE CATEGORIES:
- HIS OWN SUSTENANCE, WHICH HIS GUARANTEED BY G-D FOR EVERY LIVING BEING FOR ITS ENTIRE LIFE, WHICH MAY BE LESS THAN MAN EXPECTS AND OFTEN COMES UNEXPECTEDLY.
- INCOME FOR SUSTENANCE OF OTHERS, WIFE AND CHILDREN, SERVANTS AND ASSISTANTS. THESE ARE NOT GUARANTEED BY G-D FOR ALL, JUST FOR A SELECT FEW WHO HAVE MERIT AS JUDGED BY G-D.
- THE EXCESS INCOME HE AMASSES WHICH DOESN’T BENEFIT HIM, WHICH WILL PASS AS AN INHERITANCE, OR LOST AFTER HIS DEATH TO PEOPLE LIKE HIS WIFE’S SECOND HUSBAND, A STEPSON OR HIS ENEMY.
- THIRD MISTAKE A FOOL MAKES IS THAT WHEN HE DOES GIVE THE MONEY TO ITS INTENDED RECIPIENT, HE REMINDS THE RECIPIENT THAT THE LARGESSE IS FROM HIM/THE GIVER TO ELICIT MANY THANKS AND PRAISES, RATHER THAN INTERNALIZING THAT IT WAS G-D WHO GAVE HIM THE MONEY TO GIVE TO OTHERS. THIS ACTS AS A SEED OF ARROGANCE BELIEVING AND PROJECTING THAT IT IS MAN’S POWER AND HAND, RATHER THAN ACKNOWLEDGING HE WAS MERELY A MESSENGER OF G-D.
I AM SURI DAVIS-STERN, BE BITACHON