This week, I learned that sometimes what we don't know is the greatest gift, but a greater gift is to know that we don't know.
It’s the season of Judging. The season comes with its own rhythm: retrospecting, improvement and ultimately facing Judgement. Now we have spent the past few weeks trying to prepare ourselves for this auspicious time and I had the ironic thought that perhaps the key to achieve success on the Yom HaDin is to stop judging.
That conclusion came to me through the following episode. The details are not important for this discussion, but something happened, business related, that left me both confused and upset at someone. I had drafted a strongly worded email and just before I pressed send, I thought maybe I should just simply ask him to clarify. So, I did and he responded that he was just as confused. Long story short, a third party had mixed up names, making a mistake and the recipient wasn’t at fault at all.
In other words, I should have been dan l’kaf zechus from t…
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