Liberating Your Authenticity
From the story of Isaac digging the wells we learn that metaphorically speaking human beings have three options: (1) to redig the wells of their forefathers; (2) to dig their own wells; (3) to redig the wells of their forefathers in such a way as to make them their own. We need to achieve a balance between how much to accept from our ingrained nature and nurture and how much to strike out on our own. Isaac was able to both heed the traditions of his father and strike out on his own, sometimes at one and the same time. In this lies the secret of the survival of the Torah and the Jewish people.- Rabbi Avraham Trugman
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