“If it wasn’t hard, everyone would do it. It’s the hard that makes it great.“
- Tom Hanks
Yehuda Berg told a story at Shabbat once. It was about a man who heard the voice of the Creator tell him to go push a huge boulder outside. The man proceeded to do as he was told and found a huge boulder to move. He pushed and he pushed, but the rock wouldn’t budge.
Everyday he went to the rock and he pushed until he was exhausted.
Then one day, he looked up to the sky and shaking his fists in the air he yelled, “I quit!! I’m pushing, but the rock won’t move!!!”
As he turned to leave the man heard the voice of the Creator say to him, “I didn’t tell you to move the rock. I just told you to push it.”
That is all that God ever asks of us, to keep pushing through our challenges as overwhelming and as hard as it can be.
As much as we want to quit, all we have to do is keep pushing. God will do the rest.
Being on this spiritual path, studying and practicing the teachings of the Kabbalists, is one of the most challenging things I have done or will do in my life.
In the past few weeks I have felt like walking away and giving up. Then I received this amazing message through the quote by Tom Hanks at the beginning of this post.
Yes, the challenge can be overwhelming sometimes, but it is in living Kabbalah that I find my strength to continue.
Truth be told, I wouldn’t have it any other way.
