Rabbi Amy L. Morrison
There is a Chasidic teaching that reads “Rabbi Abraham Yaakov of Sadagora was asked: According to our sages in Pirke Avot, ’There is not a that that has not its place.’ So humanity, too, has its own place. Why then do people sometimes feel so crowded? He replied: Because each wants to occupy the place of the other.”
As we enter this Shabbat, let us find solid ground for our own two feet – our uniqueness’, desires, and passions while allowing enough space, and enough solid ground, for others to do exactly the same for themselves.
