B"H I went to a shiur last night given by Rabbi Levin, the principal of Bais Yaakov of Boston. Rabbi Levin told the story of the Brooklyn Bridge, which has a powerful lesson for us now during the Aseres Yemei Teshuva (and at this point, it is almost Erev Yom Kippur!)
Around the 1870's, there was a man named John Roebling who had a dream of connecting Brooklyn and Manhattan. He was "משוגע לדבר אחד" and was so, so determined to build such a bridge. After a long time, he and his son, Washington Roebling, were finally able to start building. While they were working on it, however, there was an explosion. John was killed, and Washington was injured. Washington had to spend many months recovering, in physical therapy, etc., and he ended up paralyzed for the rest of his life. One day, his wife was sitting next to his hospital bed and noticed that Washington was able to tap his finger. So they developed a system through which Washington could communicate by tapping his finger. One finger tap at a time, Washington started to tap out all the plans for how to build the Brooklyn bridge... for 13 years!
If we just try to take on one small קבלה -- and we stick to it, then we can accomplish so much -- just one "tap" at a time...
גמר חתימה טובה and may all our תפילות be answered לטובה.
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