Talmud Bavli
Talmud Bavli

Chasidut for Pesachim 228:8

מאי שני תבשילין אמר רב הונא סילקא וארוזא רבא הוה מיהדר אסילקא וארוזא הואיל ונפיק מפומיה דרב הונא

For it was taught, R'Jose said: Though he has [already] dipped the lettuce [hazereth], it is a religious requirement to bring lettuce and haroseth and two dishes before him.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' And Resh Lakish maintains that R. Jose's reason is because precepts require intention.');"><sup>11</sup></span> Yet still, whence [does this food]: perhaps R'Jose holds [that] precepts do not require intention and the reason that we require two dippings is that there may be a distinction [shown] for the children? - If so, what is the 'religious requirement? '<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' mizwah implies that it is an essential obligation.');"><sup>12</sup></span>

Kedushat Levi

Genesis ‎24,17. “the servant ran towards her, etc;” answering the ‎unspoken question of what prompted Eliezer to run toward a girl ‎he had not even met, Rashi says that he had observed that the ‎water at the bottom of the well from which she drew water, ‎appeared to rise toward her.‎
Nachmanides adds that Rashi deduced this fact from ‎verse 13 in which the women drawing water are described as ‎לשאוב מים‎, “to draw water.” When it was Rivkah’s turn, the Torah ‎merely describes her as “descending and filling her jug,” the word ‎‎“to draw,” is not used in connection with her until she proceeds ‎to draw water for the camels in verse 20. ‎
Why did the waters not rise toward her when she drew water ‎for Eliezer’s camels, a tedious labour? The sages in Pessachim 114 ‎‎[discussing the need to dip both matzah and maror in ‎‎charosset. Ed] claim that in order to secure this kind of ‎assistance from heavenly sources, the act of ‎חסד‎, loving kindness, ‎must be performed intentionally as a good deed, i.e. the intent of ‎the good deed must be to thereby carry out the wishes of the ‎Creator. The first time when Rivkah filled the jug to satisfy her ‎own needs, i.e. this was not an act intended to please the Lord, ‎specifically. The water rose to assist her as she was a righteous ‎person. The second time, when what she did was an act of ‎kindness to others, an act that demonstrated that she wished not ‎only to please the camels but also her Creator, G’d withheld His ‎assistance in order for her to receive the whole reward for the ‎effort expended in doing this kind deed. ‎
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