A Soulful Journey

Rabbi Yonatan said: A potter does not test defective vessels, because he cannot give them a single blow without breaking them. What then does he test? Only strong vessels, for he will not break them even with many blows. -Beresheit Rabbah You are stronger than you think.

Rabbis Hiyya and Yonatan were walking in a cemetery.   Rabbi Yonatan’s tzitzit were trailing him, dragging on the ground. Rabbi Hiyya remarked to his colleague, “Pick them up as the dead will think we are mocking them.”   They will say, “Tomorrow they will join us but today they degrade us.” -Berachot 18a Respect for all, living or dead, is demanded of us.