When you enter the Land and you plant fruit-bearing trees (Vayikra 19:23)

Rav Avigdor Miller points out that the above verse is not a commandment, but it is something a person should do. Everyone needs to eat and Baruch Hashem we had trees planted for us so we could eat. We should do the same for future generations. Since we eat from the fruit trees while we are living, we should make sure to plant new fruit trees so there are fruits for future generations. Just as others provided for you, you should make sure to provide for others.

In his commentary, Rav Miller makes a very important point: when you borrow a book in shul, always make sure to put it back in its place when you are done with it. Imagine the next person who wants to use that book who needs to search all over the shul wasting his valuable time looking for something which wasn’t returned to its place. And it gets even worse because once one person leaves a book out, others will see it and also will be more likely to leave their book lying around. Then the books get piled up which makes it harder to find the book one is looking for. It also makes it harder for someone to clean them up because it is now many books. And it all happened because someone was too busy (or too lazy) to put the book back on the shelf.

A person always needs to think about what they doing before they do it, because everything we do can affect another person.

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