I Wanted To Quit. The Rebbe Said This

late sixties i was a sent to the united states of america on behalf of the jewish agency i had found Jewish education important in my life but it's not the job for a jewish boy and i had accepted a position for my return to israel to run a new start-up business and then i was asked the older company a person of very very major importance in israel on a visit to visit the rebbe we arrive at 770 eastern parkway the gentleman i'm with is taken in to see the rebbe and he comes out and he says to me the rebbe asks to speak to you i walked into the rebbes office there was an love in his eyes he took my hand held my hand both of his his hands and he said to me "avraham, stay in education, it is ordained by god, a porsons soul can descend into this world for one propose, one good deed, while another persons soul might descend for seventy eighty years like the baal shem tov taught, for a completely different purpose, so you can never know its possible that your entire descent into this world was for a single purpose, your entire seventy or eighty years and everything else is secondary compared to this main thing. how he knew that earlier that week i had signed a contract to leave education i have absolutely no idea but the way in which this was done the warmth with which the rebbe's very presence touched you made me cancel the contract that i signed and i've since then spent an additional 45 years jewish education throughout the jewish world working with tens of thousands of young people every year and eventually becoming the international head of hillel