If there's anything I've learned over and over and over....and over...again in both high-school and college, it's to cite your sources. If knowledge didn't come from you, you have no place pretending it was your own. The person whose brilliance it actually is, deserves some acknowledgement. So, just do it.
"Whoever repeats a statement in the name of the one who said it brings redemption to the world."-Ethics of the Fathers 6:6
Whoa, look at me citing my sources up there!
Day 66: Who is Rich?
Ok, ok, raise your hand if you've ever seen Fiddler on the Roof. Ok, now raise your hand if you've heard the song If I Were a Rich Man. Ok, now raise your hand if you could sing along every word to If I Were a Rich Man.
When we look at Tevye, we don't see much. He has a little bit of this, he has a little bit of that. He has Anatevka. He's poor, he's a milkman with many daughters whose dowries he can barely afford. But what does Tevye have?
Tevye has many beautiful daughters, a fairly stable job. He has a house and property, he has friends and a wife. He has a little bit of this, a little bit of that. He has a pot, a pan, a broom, and a hat. *Please get the reference, please understand the reference.*
Tevye is actually rich.
Correction; Tevye should be rich.
Because Ben Zoma got it right. Who is rich? He who is happy with what he has. Tevye has all the building blocks to make him happy but he can't see that.
We shouldn't be following in Tevye's footsteps. We should be happy. We should look at all the things we are so fortunate to have and recognize how rich we really are.
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