Rebbe Menachem Mendl of Kotsk once spoke to his acolytes about a parable in midrash:
A man passed by a castle and saw it ablaze. No one was trying to extinguish the flames. He thought, 'the castle must be abandoned, without an owner.'
Then, looking again, he saw the lord of the castle peering from a window. The lord stated, “I am the owner of this castle.”
When he repeated the lord’s words, “I am the owner of the castle,” Rebbe Menachem Mendl and all those around him were struck with a great reverence for they all felt, “the castle is burning but it has a Master.”
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