During the World Economic Forum at Davos, the winner of the Nobel Prize for Peace, Shimon Peres told the following story:
A Rabbi gathered together his students & asked them: "How do we know the exact moment when night ends & day begins?"
The boys came up with different answers:
One said : "when it's light enough to tell a sheep from a dog";
another quipped: "No, when it's light enough to tell an olive tree from a fig tree."
However, none of the answers seemed to satisfy the Rabbi.
"Well, what's the right answer then?" asked the boys.
"When a stranger approaches, & we think he is our brother, & all conflicts disappear, that is the moment when night ends & day begins" said the Rabbi.
A Rabbi gathered together his students & asked them: "How do we know the exact moment when night ends & day begins?"
The boys came up with different answers:
One said : "when it's light enough to tell a sheep from a dog";
another quipped: "No, when it's light enough to tell an olive tree from a fig tree."
However, none of the answers seemed to satisfy the Rabbi.
"Well, what's the right answer then?" asked the boys.
"When a stranger approaches, & we think he is our brother, & all conflicts disappear, that is the moment when night ends & day begins" said the Rabbi.
From "Like the Flowing River" by Paulo Coelho
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