Rabbi Zusya dies and as he waits to come before God, he frets and frets, fearing that God will consider him a failure, will ask him, Why weren't you Moses, or Why weren't you Solomon, or at least, Why weren't you Maimonides? But when the Rabbi reaches God, the Almighty asks him simply, Why weren't you Zusya?
Monday, January 4, 2016
Why Weren't You Zusya?
A bit of Jewish wisdom to start off the new year and perhaps get the old blog rolling again after a hiatus in the second half of 2015. Paraphrasing from Martin Buber's Tales of the Hasidism:
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