Rabbi Yisrael Salanter was expected at shul one Kol Nidrei
eve. However he was late in coming. His students began to worry and went out to
search for him. They finally found him
at one of the congregant’s homes rocking a baby to sleep. Rabbi Yisrael explained that while walking to
synagogue he heard a baby crying. He
realized the parents must have put the baby to sleep ad then left for synagogue
assuming he would sleep through the night.
However, the baby woke and Rabbi Yisrael, hearing the cries, decided
that comforting the child took precedence over being present in shul on the
holiest night of the year. - Retold by Eliezer Diamond
“To say the right thing at the right time, keep still most of the time.” John W. Roper Those who get in trouble most often are those cannot seem to keep still, remain silent. Life teaches many lessons. Among the best lessons of life is one my father taught me at an early age was, “If you have nothing nice to say, say nothing.” The contributions we make to life via our mouth are many and varied. Most of the time, I reckon, they are not contributions at all, but things that diminish the richness of life.
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