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When Chazal say one who does a mitzvah he was commanded to do is greater than one who wasn’t commanded, they don’t mean more praiseworthy. They mean the effects of his mitzvah are far greater than one done voluntarily

Instead of obligation, Hashem emphasized privilege

Every picture of kinderlach dancing around a fire on the schoolyard asphalt is a message to him. You were right, Rabi Shimon

We hear so many stories about gedolim who were mediocre at best as children, and who later became role models for Klal Yisrael

“Rabbi Emanuel Feldman has seen it all, and getting to hear his perspective on Jewish life is invaluable”

It is a puzzle how these boys made it as far as the year in Eretz Israel without their learning difficulties being detected