Do not rely on a miracle: finally the bill will come
R' Aharon Leib to a head of institution caught in a deficit: "We cannot live without account, and depend on the Almighty - the bill comes at the end"
- Moshe Weisberg
- י"ז טבת התשע"ו
שוקי לרר
"An institution must not operate without an account - at the end of the bill arrives," Hagaon R' Aharon Leib Steinman instructed a head of an institution this week.
The head who conducted himself without a financial account found he has a deficit, and asked Rabbi Aharon Leib: "Maybe it's better not to make an account and rely on Hakadosh Baruch Hu?"
The Chavrusa of R' Aharon Leib, Rabbi Moshe Yehuda Schneider, says that when R' Aharon Leib heard the question he grinned and said: "This is certainly the wrong way, since inevitably in the end one has to take stock, and it will not be good."
R' Aharon Leib added, "This is what life is like for most people, life without reckoning, but in the end the bill comes, and the Sages say "let us think the world's account, the loss of a mitzvah against its reward etc."
He added with a passionate Mussar melody the verse at the end of Kohelet: "At the long run everything is heard, fear G-d, and keep His commandments, for that is the entire man", and repeated over and over again: "Ki ze kol ha'adam... ki ze kol ha'adam…" .
Another question that came to his desk in reference to Hebrew studies abroad financed by the state.
"Sometimes there are in certain books," said the questioner, "clippings from bad sources, and there are things there that one should not read."
R' Aharon Leib said: "The evil inclination is smarter than anyone else, and knows how to bring down people in its net. So one should not learn in books like those at all."
The head who conducted himself without a financial account found he has a deficit, and asked Rabbi Aharon Leib: "Maybe it's better not to make an account and rely on Hakadosh Baruch Hu?"
The Chavrusa of R' Aharon Leib, Rabbi Moshe Yehuda Schneider, says that when R' Aharon Leib heard the question he grinned and said: "This is certainly the wrong way, since inevitably in the end one has to take stock, and it will not be good."
R' Aharon Leib added, "This is what life is like for most people, life without reckoning, but in the end the bill comes, and the Sages say "let us think the world's account, the loss of a mitzvah against its reward etc."
He added with a passionate Mussar melody the verse at the end of Kohelet: "At the long run everything is heard, fear G-d, and keep His commandments, for that is the entire man", and repeated over and over again: "Ki ze kol ha'adam... ki ze kol ha'adam…" .
Another question that came to his desk in reference to Hebrew studies abroad financed by the state.
"Sometimes there are in certain books," said the questioner, "clippings from bad sources, and there are things there that one should not read."
R' Aharon Leib said: "The evil inclination is smarter than anyone else, and knows how to bring down people in its net. So one should not learn in books like those at all."
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