This BROKE my HEART

broke my heart to explain to this woman she was wrong. Last week I was at a funeral and sadly when we were done burying the woman, we counted and we only had eight men. We lacked a minion, we lacked a quorum of 10, which meant we couldn't say kadesh. So sad. So this woman came up to me. She said, "Rabbi, you're here and there's a second rabbi here and rabbis each count as two. So we don't have eight, we have 10. We can say kadesh." It broke my heart to explain to her she's wrong because each of us each of us counts as one. The rabbi and the rebel are alike. No one's more and no one's less. Each of us make the contribution based on who we are and we're all equal if we're trying to realize our potential. If you feel bad because you're competing or comparing, you're trying to measure yourself against others, people aren't greater or less great. We're all just striving to be who we're meant to be. The only one we're competing comparing against is who we were in order to become we yet still can