If I Were a (True) Rich Man

Two sisters grow up in the same home. One marries a wealthy man and one a poor man, and ten years later the poor sister comes to visit, past a servant in fine clothes and into a lounge with a deep, expensive couch. What she sees on her sister's face is not what she expected.The Chofetz Chaim brings this mashal on "Vayishman Yeshurun" in Haazinu, then turns it toward something closer to home: a Sefer Torah dressed in silver and gold. Coming out of Yom Kippur and into Simchas Torah, he asks where the Torah is really happiest.