Rabbi Aryeh Lebowitz

Chazal talked a lot about the value of achnasorchim.

Chazal talked a lot about the value of achnasorchim.

Chazal talked a lot about the value of achnasorchim.

Chazal talked a lot about the value of achnasorchim.

Not just when you have your own table for yourself.

Now, obviously, if you're going to be engaged, your spouse needs to be on board.

It shouldn't ruin your Sholem Bias.

It should only help.

And you have to be on the same page.

Now, as far as difficult people...

That's part of the cheshbon also.

You get greater schar for that, certainly.

I must have shared in the past what I heard from Roshlan Witzworski, who is a father of a friend of mine.

And he was a son of a Hasidic Rebbe.

He said that his father, the Hasidic Rebbe, when he had people come to his Sukkah, there was one guy that was smelly and inappropriate and kind of gross, and he would always sit him right next to him, right next to the Rebbe.

And the Rebbe said that, My Neshama is going to want to sit next to the Neshamas of Avram, Yitzchak, Yaakov, Moshe, Avram, you know, of all the Tzaddikim, of all the Doros.

And they're going to say, this smelly neshama should sit next to these holy people and I'll be able to respond.

That when I was down there and I was a Hasidic Rebbe, there was no one, no yid was too smelly for me.

No yid was too inappropriate for me.

So, you know, none of this is easy, obviously, but to the extent that we can accomplish this, it would be a great thing.