Next in Line

Waiting in line can be very frustrating. That is how Monkey felt when he arrived at the doctor’s office and received the last number. He, along with all the others who were waiting in line, felt that their case was the most urgent. While they waited, they tried to decide together how to determine the order of those going in to see the doctor. And so, without realizing it, they got to know one another and reached an understanding. In this sweet, heartwarming story, readers discover that, although waiting in line can be frustrating, it can also open the door to relationships involving being considerate, compassionate, and kind toward one another.

“When a person sits opposite another and relates his suffering… one should see the other as one sees oneself in the mirror, their right hand as one’s right hand, their left hand as one’s left hand… as if you see yourself.”
(Select statements made by Rabi Aryeh Levin, translated into English from the Hebrew version of A Tzaddik in Our Time, p. 426)