The Pursuit of Spiritual Growth: Insights from Rabbi Eliyahu Dessler's Life

Motseshabas is a time to tell stories, stories of Kedolim, where we see how they cease to at least be embarked on the journey of self perfection and character perfection, character rectification. And tonight our hero is the great Mikhtami Eliyahu the fantastic ethicist, the Talmud Khakhm, the god of Lathdar and a massive Talmud Khakhm, rabbi Eliyahu Eliyazer and a desler. Perhaps you've heard of him. Now, in this story we start in a weird spot because it's a Purim Suda and at Purim Suda sometimes it can get rowdy, or more, sometimes the young fellows can get rowdy, and Revelio Desler was hosting a Purim Suda. Then the Bahram were surrounding Revelio Desler's table and one of the Bahram noticed that on the counter in the kitchen was a bottle of this old style perfume bottle, one that really had no spot in the home. It seemed out of place. The Bahram were puzzled what's this doing here? Is it Revelio Desler's? Is it somebody else's? But after some time and of course the Suda was moving on and somebody had the guts to question afterwards one of Revelio Desler's family members he explained to them that actually the current spot where Desler has somebody pays for a service that takes care of the laundry Man's Parnassler. If Desler pays them, well, they pick it up and they drop it off. But if Desler said once that well, I'm paying for the service, there's no muckam, there's no spot, that the other Jewish person, even though they work for the laundromat, should have to smell the stench of dirty clothes, Now maybe I'd pay the smeller of Desler's dirty scent. But Desler didn't want anyone to smell clothes that weren't perfectly clean, perhaps suffer because of him in some small way. So if Desler would spray or put some of this old style perfume on it, so at least the shmech I don't know if that's how you say it, but at least the smell of sorts would not bother these individuals who did the laundry Clues us in to when the villain agone says if you're not working on your Mido's, then loma lochain, what's the point of life? This is why we're down here. If Desler never stopped working on himself, something we should aspire to do and while this is a high level, I reckon, step by step, rung by rung, we climb Jacob's ladder, though maybe one day we are pretty close to rev Desler.