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On my first day of work at American Jewish University, I was given a piece of advice that I carry with me every single day. The founding president of the University, Rabbi David Lieber told me, \u201cYou can get anything done so long as you don\u2019t worry about who gets the credit.\u201d Such a simple insight, yet so counter to the way most of us navigate the world.<\/span><\/p>\n

How often have you heard people think about their legacy? What will be remembered? What can they leave behind when they no longer walk this earth? Or, how often do people attempt to smooth their own career trajectory by trying to assure that they get proper credit (and remuneration or promotion) for a good idea or a successful venture?<\/span><\/p>\n

It is human nature to fight our own mortality, and the fact that the world will move on without us, by trying to create a benefit for ourselves in this lifetime and a memorial to our efforts after we are gone.<\/span><\/p>\n

And yet, it saps us of the moment we are in, and it desiccates the future awaiting us. By diverting our energy into \u201cowning\u201d an idea, a product, a service, we don\u2019t\u2019 focus on the idea itself. By putting our sense of compensation in some future credit, we ignore the simple joy of making something good happen today, now.<\/span><\/p>\n

This chapter contains the antidote. In a struggle to bring meaning in his time, Elisha dispatches a \u201cyoung prophet\u201d to bring a revelation of God\u2019s will to a would-be usurper and future king. The anonymous young prophet finds Jehu, the son of Jehoshaphat, son of Nimshi, and anoints him as the new king, issues a verbal confirmation of the prophesy, and then flees. Scripture never identifies the prophet\u2019s name or identity. Like most angels in the Tanakh, he is there for the moment and we never hear from him again.<\/span><\/p>\n

Yet he changes the course of Israel\u2019s history, and he merits to carry God\u2019s message. Quite a significance, even though we don\u2019t remember his name.<\/span><\/p>\n

And in the end, the names don\u2019t mean much. We all walk down streets named after people who were bigshots in their own time, and now we know the name as a street, or a car, or a school. But we still know nothing about the person who used to have that name.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Names don\u2019t matter much, and our personal identity will join the flow of humanity across time. Not the drop, but the river, counts. What matters is not who we are, but what we achieve. 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