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The Nudnik Test

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Rabbi Yaron Reuven

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Did you ever have a bad day? I know it's a rhetorical question. Who didn't have a bad day? Sometimes you just wake up and it's just a bad day. You wake up, you don't feel good, maybe a little stuffy, maybe you didn't sleep enough, maybe your back hurts, maybe you woke up with from a bad dream. whatever the reason is. Now, isn't it interesting that it always happens that during those bad days, you arrive at synagogue or you arrive at work, hopefully after you prayed, and all of a sudden, well, the only thing you want is to be left alone. That's all you want that day. It's a bad day. You're in a bad mood, you don't feel well, and all you want is to be left alone. But it just so happens that every single time you have that bad day, there's always this nudnik, this nuisance that never paid attention to you in his life, all of a sudden decides to come up and how you doing? How are you today? How am I? Where'd you show up from? You work here. Oh. Oh, okay. Yeah, I'm fine. I'm fine. Okay. Well, no. I just wanted to see how you're doing. What do you care about what I'm doing? What do you I'm fine. I'm fine. Okay. I just I just want to get to to to do my thing. Oh, did you speak to your parents recently? What? What? Why? Why do you care if I spoke to my parents? No, I don't know. I just spoke to my mom and I figured I don't know. Maybe maybe you should speak to your mom also. What does What does your mom have to do with my mom? Oh, no. No. Okay. No, I just thought Okay. All right. Have a good day. Oh, yeah. Have a good day. Well, listen. What do you think about uh us grabbing coffee or lunch later? What? No. No. I brought lunch from home. I'm okay. Oh, well, would you mind if I if I eat my lunch next to you? What do you want from me? Ah, go. That's what you want to tell him, but you can't. You can't be that guy. You can't be that guy that says, "Go away." But at the same you want to. And why is he coming to you today? Why did he come yesterday when you were in a good mood? Why does he come tomorrow when hopefully you'll be in a good mood?