The Precious Coin By Yerachmiel Tilles A holy half-shekel reveals the importance of judging one's fellow favorably. More »
Once Upon a Donkey By Yanki Tauber It was an age of boors and ascetics, a time of conflict between body and soul. Then a master appeared. "Don't beat your beast," he taught, "don't overload him and don't abandon him. Help him" More »
"A man saw not his fellow, neither rose any from his place for three days" (the Plague of Darkness, Exodus 10:23). Indeed, there is no greater darkness than one in which "a man saw not his fellow" -- in which a person becomes oblivious to the needs of his fellow man. When that happens, a person becomes stymied in his personal development as well -- "neither rose any from his place."
— Chassidic master Rabbi Yitzchak Meir of Ger (1789-1866)
