40 years have passed, and we are still carrying the pain of one sentence.
Someone hurt us.
Maybe they don’t even know they hurt us.
Maybe they are not even in our life anymore.
But inside, we are still going back to that moment.
This week’s Parsha teaches us the mitzvah of Shichecha.
When a person harvests his field and forgets some stalks, the Torah says:
Do not go back.
Leave it there for the poor.
Rashi says something amazing:
When a person fulfills this mitzvah, it is as if he built the Beis Hamikdash.
Why?
Because this is not easy.
A person worked hard on his field.
He planted.
He waited.
He invested time, money, and energy.
And now the Torah says:
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