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David says, in the Psalms (Ch. 90) <\/span>kilinu shenotenu kemo hegeh<\/span><\/em>–we spend our years like a <\/span>hegeh<\/span><\/em>. That last word is usually translated as \u201ca tale that is told\u201d or \u201ca sigh\u201d– from the word <\/span>lehegot<\/span><\/em>, to speak or utter. But the Gaon of Vilna has a far more acute insight: <\/span>hegeh<\/em> <\/span>is related to the word <\/span>higayon be\u2019khinor<\/span><\/em>,<\/em> to play on a harp or lyre. Thus, \u201cwe have spent our years tuning up\u201d– always preparing, practicing, expecting, waiting– but never accomplishing.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

What a tragedy– spending a life tuning up, but never quite producing a single clear note or melody. Some of us suffer from that–and it is a defect in our <\/span>menschlichkeit<\/span><\/em>. We want to study and use our heads, learn some Torah. So we prepare, inquire about classes, set the alarm, look about for babysitters, buy notebooks–we tune up, but never quite get around to it. We would like to be as charitable in a significant way as we know we should. So we think and question, discuss it with our accountants, partners, wives, children–and then we discover that life is past– <\/span>kilinu shenotenu <\/span><\/em>— <\/span><\/i>and we still have done none of those things we deemed so precious and so wanted to!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Kemo hegeh<\/span><\/em>— those who only tune up are not yet <\/span>menschen<\/span><\/em>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

No wonder the ancients said that a man is an <\/span>olam katan<\/span><\/em>, a microcosm or small world. For just as a world has to be delicately balanced, so a <\/span>mensch<\/em> <\/span>must be harmonious and balanced between impulsiveness and procrastination. Then he is an <\/span>ish<\/span><\/em>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Reprinted with permission from The Lamm Heritage Archives<\/a><\/p>\n

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