Only The WISE Seek!

Published: May 8, 2017, 6:14 pm

~With Compliments

eddessa_Knight with Joyous Light ??

A young teenager once asked a Rabbi in Jerusalemi, "I am small, one in seven billion. I am a regular kid: Not brilliant, not super athletic, smart, or witty. My grades are average. What is the purpose of MY life? I will never make it big. I will never become a Mozart or a Kant!"

The Rabbi responded with a story:

The great Italian symphony conductor, Arturo Toscanini, led concerts all over the world. One of the most acclaimed musicians of the late 19th and 20th centuries, he was renowned for his intensity and his ear for orchestral detail and sonority. A biographer interviewed him periodically over the years as part of a book he was writing on his life. Once, when he asked if he could interview him the following evening, Toscanini refused, saying he would be busy with something special that would require his absolute concentration.

"Maestro," the biographer said, "may I ask what it is?"

"There is a concert overseas. I used to conduct that symphony orchestra, but I could not be there this year, so I will listen on a shortwave radio. I don't want any interruptions whatsoever."

"It would be my greatest pleasure to watch you listen to a concert played by an orchestra you used to lead. "

"You promise to be perfectly quiet?" Toscanini asked.

"Yes."

The next night, the biographer sat quietly while Toscanini listened to the concert. When it finally ended, the biographer remarked, "Wow, wasn't that magnificent?"

Toscanini said, "Not really."

"Why not?"

"There were supposed to be 120 musicians, including 15 violinists. Only 14 of them played."

The biographer thought he was joking. How could he know from 6,000 miles away, over shortwave radio, that one of the violinists was missing? The biographer did not want to voice his doubts, so he went home.

The next morning, though, he had to know. He called the concert hall overseas, asked for the music director, and inquired how many musicians were supposed to have been playing the night before and how many had actually shown up. The concert hall director told him that there were supposed to have been 120 musicians, including 15 violinists, but only 14 had shown up.

The biographer was amazed! He went to Toscanini and said, "Sir, I owe you an apology. The other night, I thought you were making things up. Tell me, please, how could you know that one violinist was missing?"

"This is the difference between you and me," Toscanini replied." You are part of the audience, and to them everything sounds wonderful. But I am the conductor, and so I know every note of music that has to be played. When I realized that certain notes were missing, I knew without a doubt that one of the violists was not there."

The Rabbi turned to the teenager and said:

Judaism teaches that we are all musicians in the grand cosmic symphony of history. Maybe to the average observer, how you live, what you do every day, and how you work on your moral and spiritual life doesn't make a difference... but know that to the Conductor of the World Symphony, who knows every note of music that is supposed to be played, who appreciates the unique note that only you can produce through your life—to Him it makes a grand difference! Every moment of your life is an indispensable note in the Divine symphony.

~Moshiach NOW!!!

Entry #178

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eddessaknight - May 8, 2017, 6:15 pm

So LOOK Already! :-)

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