Mishlei states, â
Kâkesef lematzreif vâcur lâzahav, ish kâfi mehalalo â Like silver in the refinery and gold in the crucible, so is a man according to his praise.â The
Sefer Chareidim explains this cryptic verse as follows: Just as the refinery reveals if there is dross in the silver and the crucible discovers if there are imperfections in the gold, so too the way one praises Hashem is a barometer of oneâs
yiras shamayim. The late Spinka Rebbe,
ztâl, used to say that one of the ways to check out a young man as a potential mate is to see how he