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Satisfied with his lot

For years, Gac Filipaj mopped floors, cleaned toilets and took out trash at Columbia University.

A refugee from war-torn Yugoslavia, he eked out a living working for the Ivy League school. But Sunday was payback time: The 52-year-old janitor donned a cap and gown to graduate with a bachelor's degree in classics.

...He's not interested in furthering his studies to make more money.

"The richness is in me, in my heart and in my head, not in my pockets," said Filipaj, who is now an American citizen.

http://news.yahoo.com/ivy-league-school-janitor-graduates-honors-182936684.html

" AND AVRAHAM BREATHED HIS LAST, AND DIED AT A GOOD AGE, OLD AND SATISFIED, AND HE WAS GATHERED UNTO HIS NATION.. . (Bereishis 25:8)"

The Ramban comments that when the Torah speaks here of Avrohom Avinu's satisfied life, it means to teach us two things: 1] The kindness of Hashem in that He bestows upon the Tzadikim a life of satisfaction; and 2] That the Tzadikim possess the mida tova, the fine character trait of being satisfied with what they have. They are not plagued and tormented by temptations for luxuries, and unnecessary indulgences, which would make it impossible for them to ever be satisfied. This is unlike those who are not righteous, who are constantly dissatisfied and unhappy, and are never gratified, for they are constantly being driven by a desire to attain more, as Chazal say (Koheles Rabbah 1:34), "If he possesses one hundred he desires two hundred, if he possesses two hundred he desires four hundred.¹"

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