חסיד אחד בא אל הרבי מקוצק.
"רבי", התאונן, "אנוס אני להרהר ולהרהר, ואין לי מנוחה !"
"מהו", שאל הרבי, "שאתה אנוס להרהר בו ?"
"אנוס אני להרהר, האם יש באמת דין ודיין".
"מה אכפת לך ?"
"רבי ! אם אין דין ודיין, מה תכלית בכל הבריאה !"
"מה אכפת לך ?"
"רבי ! אם אין דין ודיין, מה טעם בדברי תורה !"
"מה אכפת לך ?"
"מה הרבי סח ! וכי מה יהא אכפת לי ?!"
"אם אכפת לך כל כך", אמר הרבי, "הרי אתה יהודי טוב, ויהודי טוב רשאי להרהר. הוא לא ייפגע".
מ. בובר, אור הגנוז, הוצאת שוקן, עמ' 436
A hasid came to the rabbi of Kotsk. "Rabbi," he complained, "I keep brooding and brooding, and don't seem to be able to stop."
"What do you brood about ?" asked the rabbi.
" I keep brooding about whether there really is a judgment and a judge."
"What does it matter to you !"
"Rabbi! If there is no judgment and no judge, then what does all creation mean !"
"What does that matter to you !"
"Rabbi! If there is no judgment and no judge, then what do the words of the Torah mean !"
"What does that matter to you ?"
"Rabbi ! What does it matter to me? What does the rabbii think ? What else could matter to me ?"
"Well, if it matters to you as much as all that," said the rabbi of Kotzk, "then you are a good Jew after all - and it is quite all right for a good Jew to brood: nothing can go wrong with him."
M. Buber, Tales of the Hasidim, Schocken Books (one vol. ed, Book II) p. 280
"Rabbi ! What does it matter to me? What does the rabbii think ? What else could matter to me ?"
"Well, if it matters to you as much as all that," said the rabbi of Kotzk, "then you are a good Jew after all - and it is quite all right for a good Jew to brood: nothing can go wrong with him."
M. Buber, Tales of the Hasidim, Schocken Books (one vol. ed, Book II) p. 280
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