A follower of Rabbi Meir of Premishlan once complained to him about a man who had started a competing business. “He is depriving me of my livelihood!” cried the man. “You must tell him to close his shop!”
Said Rabbi Meir: “Have you ever noticed how a horse behaves when he is led to a water hole? He begins to paw angrily at the water with his hooves; only when the water is well-muddied does he begin to drink. Why does the horse act this way?”
“I don’t know,” said the man. “Why?”
“Because the horse sees his reflection in the water and thinks that another horse has come to drink his water. So he kicks and paws until he has ‘chased away’ the other horse. What the horse doesn’t understand,” concluded Rabbi Meir, “is that G-d has created enough water for all the horses.”
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I do not know how a horse behaves when it reaches a waterhole. I assume it just drinks.
I do not know the circumstances of the man facing business competition.
I do not know how is back in those days.
I know insufficient how life is in present time.
Maybe the complainer cheated his client
Maybe the competitor cheated his clients.
If a person has a loyal partnership with others how can anyone lose business ?
If economy is not a loyal partnership then it easy to lose business.
Monotheistic faith has no respect for the environment. So no loyalty.
Before there was loyalty to the environment but not to the one god.
Yet the monotheistic faith claims all comes from god. Should it then also not respect the environment as in times before ?
When respecting the environment there is plenty. When plundering the environment there comes poverty for all.
May we all be wary of illusions.
Have nice day.
I do not know how a horse behaves when it reaches a waterhole. Nor do I know why.
Maybe it want to enrich the water with minerals from the ground before drinking the water.