Once a young Torah scholar visited Rabbi Elimelech of Lizhensk.
"Rabbi Elimelech," began the visitor, "we are both scholars, well-versed in Jewish law. Yet you have far surpassed me in your level of saintliness. What do you possess that I lack?"
Rabbi Elimelech pointed to the bowl of fruit displayed before them on the table. "When you want to eat an apple, do you make a blessing to G-d?"
"I certainly do!" the visiting rabbi answered.
"Ah – that's the difference! You see, when you want to eat an apple, you make a blessing. When I want to make a blessing, I eat an apple."
Chicken soup for the neshomo
Ya ya good one, know where I think I read it first? That "naar hayisi" book we have at home, white book..actually no, can't be from there. But I think you would like a lot of those stories...
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