Cultivating Koach HaNefesh Through Seeing Things Grow

Someone once visited Kelm and saw a patch of wheat growing in the yeshivas courtyard. He asked why they were there and people told him that that’s just the way it always had been, they didn’t know why.

They went to the elderly daughter of the Alter of Kelm and she said that the Alter had stipulated in his will that a patch of wheat should always be left to grow in the yeshivas courtyard, because

there is a secret in the cultivation of the kochos hanefesh:

When you see things growing, you aspire to grow!

-From Shiviti.org.il Chat / Posted by Rebbetzin Yehudis Golshevsky