Tuesday, October 25, 2011

Hevei Goleh LeMekom Torah


A man is on a street corner crawling along the pavement, the way one does when desperately looking for something. A boy sees him and silently joins in the search. Upon asking he learns that the man is looking for his wallet. After about an hour the kid says, "Are you sure you lost your wallet here, on this corner?" The man replies, "Actually I'm sure I didn't lose it here. I lost it two blocks over." "Then why are you looking here?" the boy asks. "Simple," says the man, "because there's a streetlight here."

When we look for something where it's easy to look but where that thing is not to be found we may have a comfortable search but won't be able to find there what we truly are searching for.

2 Comments:

Blogger Miss Trudy said...

Very good example, rabbi. Right on.

October 26, 2011 at 5:44 PM  
Blogger rabbi neil fleischmann said...

Thanks - I read it in "Ethics From Sinai" by Irving Bunim.

October 26, 2011 at 6:41 PM  

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