This morning I listened to a short devar Torah about this week's Parsha. Since the parsha relates how the children of Israel were counted in the desert, the rabbi began with a short anecdote about the importance of every individual. He spoke about a small town that had exactly a minyan for prayer. Week after week, precisely ten men would show up to shul. One day, someone moved into town and the people were quite excited that they would finally daven with more than just a regular minyan. When Shabbos morning arrived, they walked into shul to find only three people had shown up.
The rabbi concluded, "Apparently, everyone said, what difference does it make anyway if I'm not needed."
And here's another thought about the importance of each and every person.
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