The Rema's Gift to the Editor
In Cracow, Rav Eliyahu's work on the Rema's writings brought him a priceless gift: the Rema's own commentary on the Zohar.
It is told that when Rav Eliyahu reached Cracow, the city of the Rema, he found a great many treasures waiting to be set in order. The Rema, Rav Moshe Isserles, had filled the margins of his seforim with glosses on the Shulchan Aruch, and these notes needed a careful hand to gather them into a single, readable work.
Rav Eliyahu took on the task. He worked through the pages, placed each note where it belonged and prepared the text that Jews would call the Darkei Moshe. The Chida, in Shem Hagedolim, records that this was his work, and that the Darkei Moshe in our hands comes from his labors.
In Cracow he also met Rav Eliezer, the Rema's brother, who gave him as a gift the Rema's own handwritten commentary on the Zohar. In his own introduction to Aderes Eliyahu, Rav Eliyahu describes this gift with gratitude.
He did not keep the manuscript to himself. He later included the Rema's commentary within his own work on the Zohar, so that the Rema's words traveled together with his own and reached many more students.
Source: Shem Hagedolim (Chida), entry on Rav Eliyahu Baal Shem; his own introduction to Aderes Eliyahu, p. 9ff (the new edition's introduction also tells the story of the manuscript).
Rav Eliyahu received something precious and made sure it reached others. Choose one thing you were given, such as a teaching from a parent or teacher, a recipe, a custom or a sefer, and share it this week. Call someone who would value it, write it out for a child, or learn it together over coffee. If you can, name the person who gave it to you. Good things grow when we hand them on with gratitude.