A Bucketful of Holes - How to Face the Challenges of Life - Rabbi YY Jacobson

[Music] they say there was a Chinese lady who would go everyday with two buckets to the river fill them up and bring them home one bucket was complete the other one had holes she was very poor she couldn't afford to get a new one so when she came on me today one bucket was filled with water and the other one was missing half of its water one day the broken bucket opened up its mouth and spoke to the Chinese woman and said to her it's not fair I'm so jealous of my friend the other bucket comes home filled with water and I come home every day missing so much water and the Chinese woman tells the broken bucket tomorrow when we come back home look at up your pack and when the book that looks out she sees it sees plants flowers lilies roses planted along its path from the river to the home says what's this the Chinese woman says when I obtained you I knew about your defects I know about your blemishes so I planted all of these flowers on your hat so each day as we're going back home and your water trickles out of your buckets you get to water all of these flowers and all of these plants which gives our home so much fragrance and awareness very often we look at different people some buckets incomplete and some buckets are filled with holes sometimes we look at our own vodka too they're filled with holes and we ask ourselves couldn't we have been wholesome why do we have all these defects and blemishes but you know well God created you he knew exactly the holes in your buckets so there's something that the broken bucket can accomplish that the other bucket can the water that trickles out of it creates planets and flowers and roses and smells but the other bucket can't create so instead of asking yourself why me or why my child or why this one oh why that one that question won't help them a much deeper question Asst a Delilah allow this bucket to maximize its unique destiny its unique quality its unique mission