Another email I received.
[Warning - Sarcasm alert. I usually don't like to use sarcasm but here will use some to bring home the point.]
This is DEFINITELY what Hashem wants. I mean NO KITNIYOT!!!! NO GEBROCHTS!!! HAND SHMURA!!!! So frrrrrrrrrrrrummmmmm!!!!! So spiritual!!!!!
Mouthwatering pastries from French pastry chefs!!! Food!!! Buffet Restaurants!! More food!!! Top Italian and regional cuisine!! Yet more food!!! Elaborate tea room!! Yet more and more food!!! [And I am sure that sardines are thrown in for free]. All לשם שמים!!! To be makayim Simchas Yom Tov!!!! [Just make sure to bring new clothing two sizes bigger so you have what to wear on your way home.] The Chofetz Chaim - if he were alive - would be SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO down with this!!!
Or maybe ............ not. Maybe the point of Pesach is not to frolic around in a private pool and drop 40k in one week. Maybe the point is to become a more Ruchani being, more connected to Hashem and Torah. Maybe if I have all that extra money I can instead give it to the countless families that can't afford basic necessities for Pesach. Maybe THAT would find more favor in the eyes of Hashem???
Maybe more than maybe???
Jews are רחמנים בני רחמנים.
Let's act it.
Giving people are not only better people but considerably happier, as research shows.
