Rabbis Can't Fix Everything, But They Can Listen #shorts

He thought he wanted a divorce. He thought he was miserable, but I was going to show him though there's another path forward and we're going to figure this all out together. And uh I mentioned that, first of all, it's a real example, but I it took me personally a long time to realize that uh two things are true at the same time. Rabbis have a very critical role and there are ways that we can be very helpful in crisis situations. There is a unique role that rabbis can fill that perhaps others can't. But perhaps the most difficult realization for me personally was that there are so many problems that we can't fix. There are so many puzzles that even if there is a solution, even if they can be solved, there's a limit as to what we can do and being able to sort of hold both of those truths together uh uh every day is uh is a big challenge and it took me a while. Oh, it took me a really long time to realize that so often our role is to just listen and to be there and to help refer. But we can't necessarily fix.