Rookie Rabbi's First Marriage Crisis Call! #shorts

I was staring at the phone. It was obviously not a cell phone cuz we didn't have them yet, and I was waiting for it to ring. It was 9:00 in the morning. I was sitting and waiting, and approximately, I don't know, 9:08, 9:09, the phone rang. And it was uh a member of the shul, who's no longer a member of the shul, who told me that he was miserable in his marriage, that uh he wanted to divorce his wife, and he needed some guidance and help from me to figure out how to how to make it happen. And um I hope this doesn't come across as insensitive in any way, but you know, being a rookie, excited to be the first day in my job, wondering if anybody was ever going to call me, I started to almost salivate. I'm like, wow, this is it. This is my moment. This is what it's all about. I'm now a rabbi. And I was pretty certain in that moment that I was going to save his marriage within the next, if not week, two weeks tops. We were going to figure this out together.