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And this too shall pass

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And this too shall pass
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One day a visitor came to the rabbi and began to complain:

- Rebbe, everything is so bad for me, so bad! I lost my job, my wife is sick, my daughter can’t get married, my son doesn’t want to study... Rebbe, tell me, maybe you know what I should do? “Yes, yes, there is one ancient remedy,” answered the rabbi. — You need to take a lot of pieces of paper, write on them: “And this will all pass,” and place them in all the rooms.

The puzzled man thanked him and left.

A couple of years later the same person returns and thanks:

“Rebbe, how grateful I am to you, how grateful I am, there are simply no words!” I found an excellent job, my wife recovered, my daughter got married, my son finished his studies and got a job at a company... Everything is just great! Thank you very much! Yes, I just wanted to ask: can those pieces of paper that I laid out in the apartment be put away already?

- Why clean up? - the rabbi was surprised. - Let them lie down for now...

Translated from Russian · original on wisdomlib.ru

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