Thank you, Rabbi Rosenberg, for your insight and wisdom. Your leadership is our blessing. The hard truths you share are so very difficult yet they provide us with strength and beauty at the same time. Praying that you have a full recovery.
Thank you Rabbi Rosenberg for this extraordinary and very brave piece. Of course we had no idea of so much you wrote about. One of the many humbling lessons, some of which I learned the hard way, is that everyone has suffering in their life, the only question is when and how much. (That doesn’t mean people don’t also have joy.)
Thank you for this thoughtful, gentle, compassionate exploration of your experience and how it might be similar for others. We humans are *so* quick to judge, without knowing any of the details that might explain the situation. I often think of Stephen Covey’s “Man on the Subway” story, where he was annoyed by the noise and unruliness of a group of children who had boarded the subway with their dad. Annoyed that the father seemed unable and unwilling to manage his children, he spoke up. Only to discover that this family had just left the hospital where their mother had died an hour earlier. Annoyance was replaced with a flood of empathy, compassion and understanding. The assumptions about why the man didn’t “control his children” were all off base. We can give more Grace to others even in the absence of understanding or knowing the “backstory.” ❤️
Thank you, Rabbi Rosenberg, for your insight and wisdom. Your leadership is our blessing. The hard truths you share are so very difficult yet they provide us with strength and beauty at the same time. Praying that you have a full recovery.
Thank you so much for sharing your personal experience and thoughts on the situation. God bless you today n always!
Thank you Rabbi Rosenberg for this extraordinary and very brave piece. Of course we had no idea of so much you wrote about. One of the many humbling lessons, some of which I learned the hard way, is that everyone has suffering in their life, the only question is when and how much. (That doesn’t mean people don’t also have joy.)
Thank you for this thoughtful, gentle, compassionate exploration of your experience and how it might be similar for others. We humans are *so* quick to judge, without knowing any of the details that might explain the situation. I often think of Stephen Covey’s “Man on the Subway” story, where he was annoyed by the noise and unruliness of a group of children who had boarded the subway with their dad. Annoyed that the father seemed unable and unwilling to manage his children, he spoke up. Only to discover that this family had just left the hospital where their mother had died an hour earlier. Annoyance was replaced with a flood of empathy, compassion and understanding. The assumptions about why the man didn’t “control his children” were all off base. We can give more Grace to others even in the absence of understanding or knowing the “backstory.” ❤️
Thank you Rabbi for this incredibly honest take. It definitely changed my perspective on the situation.