A young rabbi complained to a rabbi from Rizhin:
“During the hours when I devote myself to studies, I feel life and light, but as soon as I leave them, everything goes away. What should I do?
The rabbi from Rizhin replied:
“You are like a man making his way through a forest on a dark night: for some time another man with a lamp accompanies him, but at a crossroads they part and the first man has to feel his way alone. Now, if you had your own light, you would not be afraid of any darkness.
Translated from Russian · original on wisdomlib.ru