Rav Aharon Margalit shares the stories of people who dropped the excuses and said "I can"
This book was born amid the tsunami of reactions to my autobiography, As Long as I Live. I got feedback from readers all over the world, but there was one response I received over and over again that really bothered me.
Instead of readers becoming inspired and thinking, “I can try this too,” some readers’ reaction to my life story was, “You dealt with your difficulties like this because you have really special qualities. Your parents were incredible people. And you had special kochos and amazing inner resources.” They were implying that the story didn’t obligate regular people to seek ways to overcome their challenges.
This upset me. My parents were indeed special people, but they were ordinary human beings who became such through their efforts.
And I? I was a child who dealt with all the regular human emotions. I felt loneliness, abandonment, anger against my parents and my lot in life. As a small child left suffering alone on a shelf in a sanatorium, I wasn’t “special.” In this new book, I tell the incredible stories of regular individuals who said “I can.”
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