Today’s gem is a Talmudic nod to how we can have a thousand things go right – but how we fixate on the one thing that went wrong. Continuing our discussion of what to do with an egg that was laid on a festival we read:
And even if there is uncertainty with regard to whether this egg was laid on a Festival, it is prohibited to move it. And, furthermore, if it became intermingled with a thousand permitted eggs, they are all prohibited.
So, we see that we cannot move that egg that day and if the prohibited egg is somehow in a lot of a thousand permitted eggs, they are ALL prohibited on that day.
It truly makes me think about life – about how we have so so many blessings, thousands, that we experience every day – and yet it’s that one thing, that one insecurity, that overshadows all that good, that prevents us from noting all that good.
Our daily prayers try and help us do the opposite by making us notice specific and various little miracles in our lives, like successfully emptying your bowels, being able to get the sleep from your eyes, hearing the roosters crow (or at my house the ducks squawk). . . may you not fixate on the one thing in a thousand – but enjoy the thousands of blessings you receive every day.
2,711 pages of Talmud. A gem a day. 