Thursday, October 22, 2009

What a Great Mitzvah!

I am sooo excited to share some great things about tznius! Most important thing to know how great it is in the eyes of Hash em! (Orchos Tzaddikim pg.207 shaar hasimcha)If you do a mitzvah bec. you are excited about the mitzvah it is worth 1000 times more than a mitzva done with anger and negativity!! There aren't even 1000 days in a year to get sooo many brachos!! Do you hear the number how great it is!!! this is not made up or sarcastic its real!! So pls. open up your heart to see the awesome gift that Has hem bestowed upon us women!
Hashem created Chava from a piece of Adam and with every bone that was put onto Chava Hashem said Tehei Tznua!! Be tznius!! Why did Has hem make such a big deal? Why don't the guys have this mitzva as strong??
well lets understand when Hashem gave parts of beauty to the world Hashem divided them between men and women 9 were given to the women and 1 was given to the men!(heard from Rav Shimshon Pincus ztl)Hashem made a woman much more beautiful than a man! Take a look your hair, jewelry, makeup, perfume... come on lets face it we def. look diff. and a lot more attractive than men!
Why? Hashem wanted that Beezras Hashem when you get married your husband will find you the most special in his eyes and he won't go searching to others!! Hashem wants you to save your beauty for the right time and it will be used for great things to bring more kedusha into this world!!
This mitzva is def. one of the hardest and therefore the reward is sooo great!!
Lets think: How much do you want Hashem to watch over you and over your body??
100% every single day every min., you want to be healthy and have every part working!!
Think about it: when you are not feeling well, your whole body is out of commission and you are not in the mood of anyone...!
Well guess what!!
One of the gifts that Hashem tells us is that if we cover our body then Hashem will protect our bodies! Since when you cover your body you are incasing youself with the bracha that Hashem wants to give you!!
Here is a an incredible story to let us see how powerful it is:
Malka was on a very tight schedule. She had an appointment at 1:30 . Since she did not have time to make lunch, she decided to by some pizza by a nearby store before her appointment.
Malka remembered that even though she was in a rush she still wanted to make sure she was dressed appropriately since she knew that tznius not only will bench you with beautiful brachos from Hashem, but also it will protect your body! The next morning Malka was getting dressed to go to work and she realized that her collar bone was exposed, she decided that she would close it up. So she looked around her room for a safety pin it took longer than she expected. Malka ran out of the house in order to get some breakfast before her appointment. Panting and puffing, Malka arrived at the traffic light and looked towards the direction of the pizza shop she had intended to stop at. Bricks and rubble were cascading downward,and smoke was bellowing out of the top of the building, as people were hurriedly leaving the shop in a state of shock!
Just minutes before,the pizza shop had caught on fire and was quickly beginning to collapse. Malka stood at the corner glued to her place, as she realized that her scrupulousness in fulfilling the mitzvah of tznius had saved her life.
(adopted from Daughters of Dignity from Chana Toby)
So you see the power of such a small act of doing something for Hashem has great rewards!!
This is only the intoduction to this great mitzva!
pls. comment how this makes you feel...

10 comments:

  1. Wow! That is sooo inspiring and sooo uplifting!
    Thank you for helping me change my ideas so I could start to see this mitzvah in a positive way!
    It's sooo true that of course we want Hashem to watch over our bodies and keep us healthy! The most important thing anyone would want is health! Think about it, all the money in the world can't guarentee that you'll be healthy but here you are saying that if you keep your body covered and pure, Hashem will keep it healthy! That is mind boggling!! Truly amazing!!
    Thank you, Chaya Sara for this blog and for giving us an awesome place to learn and be inspired and grow in the most special way!

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  2. Daughters of Dignity is an amazing amazing book.
    About the concept of Hashem protecting our bodies when we cover them: It's not really so obvious and special to us who have grown up with the concept of tznius but I know a girl who was not religious and has cancer. She took upon herself to wear skirts in the hopes that if she covered her body maybe Hashem would cure her body. While she isn't fully cured today, Hashem is with her in every step, curing her so miraculously that it's visible. Tznius really has that kind of power.

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  3. HEY! i like this idea POSITIVE WAY OF THINKING WHAT MORE DO YOU WANT TO TELL US!! IT SOUNDS SOO DIFF. LIKE ITS ACTUALLY A GOOD THING WOW! I DID NOT KNOW THIS PART! PLS SHARE MORE IM WAITING THANKSSS!!

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  4. HEY WE WANT TO HEAR YOUR IDEAS THAT YOU LEARNT ABOUT WE LOVE HEARING FROM YOU AND ALL YOUR BEAUTIFUL IDEAS!! THANK YOU FOR COMING AND BRINGING MORE LIGHT INTO HASHEMS WORLD! BEC EVERY TIME WE BECOME MORE POSITIVE ABT A MITZVA IT JUST BRINGS MORE GOODNESS TO THE WORLD!!!!!!!! WE NEED MORE BRACHA HELP US ADD MORE IDEAS TOG. WITH YOURS!!
    LOVE,
    CHAYA SARA
    WELCOME NEW VISITORS WE LOVE SHARING OUR IDEAS WITH YOU!!
    THANK SOO MUCH FOR BEING SO REAL AND SO CHILLED OUT TO SAY WHAT YOU REALLY FEEL CUZ THEN WE CLD ACCOMPLISH MUCH MORE!!

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  5. I JUST WANT TO PUBLICLY THANK MY SISTER WHO IS A HIDDEN TZADEKES!!ALL THE INSPIRATION THAT YOU ARE RECIEVING IS FROM DEVOIRY!! LETS SURPRISE HER AND WRITE HER A THANK YOU NOTE! I KNOW WE CANT REALLY SURPRISE HER BEC. SHE IS DEF. GOING TO SEE THIS... I STILL WANT YOU TO KNOW THAT DEVOIRY PUT IN ALL THE WORK,SHE PUT ALL THE IDEAS UP.... AND SET UP THIS WHOLE WEB SITE FROM BEGINING TO END. I JUST COME AND ADD SOME COMMENT HERE AND THERE!
    DEVOIRY I JUST WANT TO THANK YOU FROM THE BOTTOM OF MY HEART FOR ALWAYS BEING SO LOVING AND CARING!! YOU ALWAYS COME UP WITH IDEAS OF HOW TO MAKE THIS WORLD A BETTER PLACE! I AM SOOOO LUCKY TO HAVE YOU IN MY LIFE! YOU KNOW HOW MUCH YOU MEAN TO ME! JSUT KNOW HASHEM WILL REPAY YOU FOR ALL YOUR OUTSTANDING CHESED THAT YOU DO!!
    ALL YOUR GREAT IDEAS OF HOW TO MAKE THIS BLOG MORE EXCITING IS AWESOME!!
    SO EVERYONE PLS WRITE HER A PERSONAL MESSAGE OF HOW YOU HAVE GROWN FROM THIS WEB SITE! pls pls show her hakaras hatov and e mail her a short message of how its affecting you!! pls do me this tiny favor it will mean alot to her even if she knows abt. it whatever you write will be a surprise!!
    HER E MAIL ADDRESS IS devorahgift@yahoo.com she sure is a gift to this world!!
    Hashem thank you for my gift, my sister Devoiry

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  6. hey tamar!! i love what you wrote about the girl with cancer can you pls put the e mail that you sent me on this blog as a post for us to read abt Rachel and her cancer... its soo awesome cuz its still happening!! \
    and tamar pls can you share with us how hard you worked on yourself esp. when you came home from camp...since you struggled with this how did you change... we need your words of wisdom
    love,
    chaya sara

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  7. wish I had time to write lots but basically, to start off, here's the story about this girl:
    Chaya Sara has this amazing hotline where some girls from Camp Sternberg learn Shemirat HaLashon and other books every night (everyone's welcome on!). Miles away, a sick, religously lost neshama was roomed with a religious girl in the oncology center of the hospital. The religious girl piqued the other girl, Rachel's, interest and Rachels tarted learning from her. ONe of the things that really made an impact was how the rel. gril always wore a skirt. As Rachel went into a surgery, she decided that she would start wearning skirts and maybe G-d would cure her. After, she bought a pair of jeans she really liked and sewed it into a skirt. She also said that once she decided to begin working on kashrut and came home from the hospital and wanted to just be vegetarian because it would be an eas way to keep some sort of kashrut. Her parents are vehemently anti-religous and a whole fight about that ensued. She returned o the hospital earlier than she thought she would and a little after, the hospital began giving out kosher meals!! Miracle of miracles, hashemguided her to us on the hotline when someone at the hospital told her about a number where she could hear other people talk because it's often lonely in the hospital when she is in pain and weak. And she "Stumbled" onto us learning Torah, whcihch she so desperately yearned for. Since then, she came on often even though she didn't understand a lot of what we said and she was confused that we still were learning aout Judaism even though we were brought up religious. She returned to the hospital a month-ish ago, and was there for the Yamim Noaraim but got to hear the shofar which is a big deal since her parents wouldn't be too happy about it! She is amazing, so solid in her emunah. She came home lask week, by the way and her tehillim name is RACHEL BAT CAROL! After being part of such a crazy expereince, there's no way anyone could deny G-d's Hand in this world! It's crazy! And you can't deny the impacts of Torah learning, tznius, and everything else! ANd the night we got her tehillim name was such a hashgacha story as well and everytime there is mass davening for her, there really are results!

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  8. also, Devoiry thank you soooo soo much! You are seriously sooo amazing and inspirational and I have learned a LOT from you! Thanks for this blog and everything that's come off of it!!

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  9. This is such a powerfull story! Thanks so much ! I feel like no matter where a person is in their level of Tznius, as long as they are trying then Hashem is like totally willing and wanting to help them so it's sooooooo worth it to try !!!!!!!!! I MEAN IF HASHEMS WILLING TO HELP THEN WHY NOT TRY????!!!!!!!!

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  10. i still remember mrs braunstein a"h say this story:
    she as a young girl comes home crying i hate school i never wanna go back ever again!
    when her mother asked her why she said cuz "my top button was open and my teacher told me to shut it because it's disgusting!my body is natious."

    her mother told her "chas veshalom your body is not disgusting!its absolutely beautiful and your most valuable possession is so important to keep safe!
    never let anyone tell you otherwise!

    tznius is not a way to hide skeletons in the closet rather it is like keeping your most valuable diamond in the safest vault locked many times in a hidden bank
    noone is embarrassed of a sefer torah right? its the greatest holiest thing we have!so why isnt it our wallpaper or why dont we have little sefer torah charm necklaces? are we embarrassed? are we trying to hide something?
    the obvious answer is that because its so precious we need to make sure it stays in the right hands
    thank you devoiry and chaya sara for spreading the kedusha of hashem's name the way it should be spread with positivity!
    "tov Hashem."you don't even need to continue the posuk
    it's just so good to live with Hashem!!!!
    and thank you mrs rabinowitz for raising such amazing emmissarries of Hashem!
    chaya sara!ashrei yeladeteich

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