Things Judaism has taught me about life

by Rabbi Sacks

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When he was 40, the renown Bohemian novelist and short story writer FRANZ KAFKA (1883–1924), who never married and had no children, was strolling through Steglitz Park in Berlin, when he chanced upon a young girl crying her eyes out because she had lost her favorite doll.  She and Kafka looked for the doll without success.  Kafka told her to meet him there the next day and they would look again.

The next day, when they still had not found the doll, Kafka gave the girl a letter "written" by the doll that said, “Please do not cry.  I have gone on a trip to see the world.   I'm going to write to you about my adventures."  

Thus began a story that continued to the end of Kafka’s life. 

When they would meet, Kafka read aloud his carefully composed letters of adventures and conversations about the beloved doll, which the girl found enchanting.  Finally, Kafka read her a letter of the story that brought the doll back to Berlin, and he then gave her a doll he had purchased.  "This does not look at all my doll," she said.  Kafka handed her another letter that explained, "My trips, they have changed me."  The girl hugged the new doll and took it home with her.  A year later, Kafka died.

Many years later, the now grown-up girl found a letter tucked into an unnoticed crevice in the doll.  The tiny letter, signed by Kafka, said, “Everything you love is very likely to be lost, but in the end, love will return in a different way."

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Old woman knits hats and then gives them away for those in need.

We all know that one of the favourite things for an old woman to do is knitting. They just love sitting on the porch and knitting different things for fun. But how about when this passion turns into something greater? How about when a person decided to put a purpose behind this passion and then share it with everybody else? That is when passion turns into something more than creative. This passion turns into something that gives hope to the masses out there and gives hope to the writers like me to spread the word about it.

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