A Relationship That Matters - R. Yehoshua Nissan - TorahAnytime.com

i remember i once tutored it was in a seventh or eighth grader and he was talking to me about school and at some point it came up he started saying how they they cheat in the classes they cheat in this class she in that class cheating why not could cheat he can get away with it get a good mark and then he said oh there's one class we don't cheat in rabbi so and so are rebbe nobody cheats in this class i said why is he very stern no no he's not stern at all he said why don't you cheat in his class we can't do that to him we could never do that to him they had such a warm relationship with that rebbe that although they cheated they had no qualms with cheating wherever you can cheat cheat but with that rebbe we just can't do that to him our relationship with him matters too much to sacrifice it for a mark on a test to go against what we know he wants even though he won't even punish us he's not stern he's not strict but we're connected to him it's not like school school's the enemy and we're only here as much as you make us know with him it matters with him he matters oh wait don't you it's the same thing with us my friends as long as he is like school it's what we got to do we're going to look for ways to cheat but when it's about hashem and when hashem matters and when we view a mitzvah like that treasure and like that meeting and like that moment that we get to connect with hashem and the deeper we bring it in and it's a life's goal bring it in deeper and deeper into ourselves and so that our heart beats a little faster so we get a little excited so that we see it as something unbelievable something magical something that we don't want to miss then no one has to tell us not to cheat and there doesn't have to be punishment and even if we could get away with it we won't cheat because we wouldn't do that to our hashem and we wouldn't do that to our beloved mitzvah and we wouldn't do that to ourselves you