In the merit of Yaakov Aryeh Ben Avraham, who's yahrtzeit is today. May his Neshama have an Aliya.

Unlike wages paid to a laborer, for example, which are no index of the nature of the work performed, the reward for a mitzvah—i.e., the revelation of G-dliness experienced by the soul that performed the mitzvah—is actually the fruit of the mitzvah itself; the revelation consists of a ray of the G-dly light emitted by the mitzvah.