This
weeks Words of Prayer, Words of Kindness is
prepared
in
the merit of
Chaya Leora bas Devorah Gitta for Refuat HeNefesh and Refuat HaGuf
This Shabbat
will be the Yartzheit of Rav Yehuda Leon Patilon and hence we decided to share
a few thoughts about him. Rav Yehuda Leon was a Hidden Tzaddik who was
known to be a simple and modest person. He did not eat or sleep much and was
known as the "Holy Painter/ Artist".
He was an outstanding
artist and made his Parnassa through selling his paintings. He sold his
paintings ONLY for what he felt they were worth without inflating the price at
all, so much so that on his tomb stone is written: "Praised be the one who
did his business dealings in this world honestly", something that most of
us (especially of today's time) are unable to achieve. He was known to go
without many times rather than charge more than he would feel the painting was
honestly worth.
Rav Yehuda Leon was still
single later in life and was about 40 years old when he got married. When still
single he went to a Hidden Tzaddik for a Brachah and Tefillot and was given the
Brachah that from this day to 40 days you will meet your Bat Zivug, and so it
was.
After he got
married when he continued in his holy work even when his living quarters was in
the section of the passageway of the apartment of others, this also served as
his art studio, he was filled with happiness and love of Hashem. Every night he
would arise at midnight and sit at the opening of the house and say the Tikkun
Chatzot (midnight Lament prayer) while crying about the exile of the Shechina
for the duration of about half an hour. Afterwards he would learn a number of
hours of Mishnayot and Zohar and while it was still dark outside he would run
towards the pure Mikvah and there he would prepare his soul for the sake of
prayer. When he would leave the Mikvah he was accustomed to wake up a number of
men to daven Shacharis in the Shul known as Cohanim which was situated in the
centre of the neighbourhood.
Other than his
care for the Shechinah which dealt with his relationship with Hashem, he was
equally concerned about the needs of others, hence his care in being absolutely
honest in all business dealings.
In honour of Rav
Yehudah Leon,
let us consider a few points to strengthen in our Business Dealings. We will
include 3 or 4 in this post. Stay tuned for a further post where we will
include other examples of honest in business.
Be honest in how
you charge for your services or products.
- The Torah
teaches to be scrupulous in our weights and measures this means both whether we
measure the weight of products for sale e.g. 1 kg of vegetables must be 1 kg
and not more or less.
- We have to be
equally honest in measuring time for services. Regarding being honest in time
for services, this falls on both the service provider and the client. While the
service provider needs to be honest to charge the going rate per hour for that
service and to use an accurate clock to time the hour, so too the client must
be honest to pay for the full time spent. Hence if a service provider charges a
given fee per the hour, the client must be honest too, to either stop a session
at the end of the hour or to pay the additional time of the service provider in
the event the client elects to go over time, or simply goes over time without
having agreed to do so.
- If the service
provider has other clients waiting for a session or other tasks scheduled for that
day, the client taking additional time would be stealing time from other
clients
who are waiting.
Hence it is more honest to end a session on time and re-schedule a further
session for another time.
- In the event a
service provider travels to the client for the purposes of providing a service
in their home or place of work, the service provider is permitted to charge a travelling
fee. This is usually worked out by mileage and time taken to get to the
destination. While the service provider needs to be honest in measuring the
mileage and time taken, the client need also to be honest in compensating the
service provider correctly.
Posts for this
week:
New Meaning to Yomim Tovim - an amazing story.
The names for
this week are to be found on our website
Reminder this is
an Exclusive international Tehillim group combining Torah, Tefillah and Maasim
Tovim.
As a bit of fun for today:
Shabbat Shalom
Shoshanah Shear
Director of the international Tehillim group
of Chessed VeEmet
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