Human beings stand perpetually at a crossroad, deciding
which path to take. We have free will,
and are afforded choice each and every day, each and every moment. We chose between blessing and curse at all
times.
The choices are usually miniscule, but small choices add
up. According to Sfat Emet, the Hasidic
master from the early Twentieth Century, each choice is but a hairbreadth, that
is, so minor as to be insignificant.
“The righteous, as they overcome each hairbreadth, go on to encounter
another. They keep doing so forever,
until they accumulate so many as to seem like a mountain” (Arthur Green, The
Language of Truth, JPS, 1998). This is
how we craft our way in this world, and it is entirely up to us whether we
arrive at the summit of righteousness or the valley of wickedness. Both journeys are made one step at a time.
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