A Soulful Journey

An attempted jailbreak in Okanogan, Washington, was foiled when two inmates trying to escape during the night made so much noise chipping away through an eight-inch concrete wall that the other prisoners complained to the guards, who caught the men in a crawl space.  Sheriff Jim Weed said that if the men had been able to chip through the outside wall, they would have found themselves eighty feet above the ground. Life does not always go the way we want it, but it usually goes like it should.

Rabbi Mikhail of Zlotchov told:   Once when we were on a journey with our teacher, the Baal Shem Tov, he went into the woods to say the afternoon prayer.   Suddenly we saw him strike his head against a tree and cry out loud.   Later we asked him about it.   He said, “While I plunged into the holy spirit I saw that, in the generations which precede the coming of the Messiah, the rabbis of the Hasidim will multiply like locusts, and it will be they who delay redemption, for they will bring about the separation of hearts and groundless hatred.” –Martin Buber Even good intentions can bring about disaster.  We must always be vigilant and ask if we are doing the correct thing.