When faced with a challenge, do you seek a quick fix or a lasting solution? Do you treat the symptoms, or do you address the root cause?
A classic story illustrates this well: A man loses his keys at night. A friend comes by and offers to help. “Where did you drop them? Let’s begin our search there.” The man points to a spot 50 yards away. “Then why are you searching here and not where you dropped them?” the friend asks. “Because this is where the light is shining.”
How often do we do the same? Choose to look where the light is shining instead of where the real problems are. Instead of digging deep to find the true source of our struggles, we search where it’s convenient—where we feel comfortable, where the light already shines. We reach for the quick short-term fix, band-aid solutions, numbing the pain rather than healing the wound. But real growth, real change, requires courage and a long-term perspective. It requires venturing into the unknown, beyond the surface, to uncover the deeper truths that hold the key to transformation.
Please join Rabbi Simon Jacobson for this essential discussion and discover that taking the long short road is the only way to truly arrive.
