Come a new year, we have to ask ourselves: Is our bucket list for us, or for them?
The talmidim of the famed mussar giant Rav Yisrael Salanter ztz”l are said to have asked their rebbi, prior to traveling on vacation for bein hazmanim, what their avodah during those days should be.
Rav Yisrael responded, “To look for inspiration for the month of Elul, which immediately follows bein hazmanim.”
This year, I didn’t have to go too far for inspiration of this sort. It was close by, and particularly painful.
About five years ago, a successful businessman in the New York area sent me an e-mail requesting that I come to his home for a meeting regarding a personal matter. I had known him for years and had worked with him on several klal projects, but I had never been to his home before.
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