A friendly neighbor allowed the neighborhood children to play in his lovely front yard after school. One day the sidewalk in front of his house was being replaced to level the walkway. As children would do, they wrote in the freshly laid cement and added all sorts of names and stick figures. This angered the friendly neighbor who started yelling at the kids. The children's parents were shocked to see their neighbor get so angry at their children whom he always liked and they pointed out to him their dismay at his behavior. He called out at them: "I love your children in the abstract but not in the concrete."
Rabbi Gershon Weissman
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