Prideful Purgatory
Yankel: So, you know what kind of hell a haughty person gets?
Berel: No, what kind?
Yankel: Well, he gets up there, and he's all prepared for them to give it to him -
Berel: Why? He's a stuck-up good-for-nothing - he thinks that he's perfect!
Yankel: Yeah, yeah. But he also knows what a great potential he had. True, his perfection is mind-blowingly awesome, but he still knows that they'll get him because of the even greater heights he could have reached.
Berel: So what's his hell?
Yankel: They tell him, "Nah, you couldn't have done it..."
Berel: No, what kind?
Yankel: Well, he gets up there, and he's all prepared for them to give it to him -
Berel: Why? He's a stuck-up good-for-nothing - he thinks that he's perfect!
Yankel: Yeah, yeah. But he also knows what a great potential he had. True, his perfection is mind-blowingly awesome, but he still knows that they'll get him because of the even greater heights he could have reached.
Berel: So what's his hell?
Yankel: They tell him, "Nah, you couldn't have done it..."
posted by MYG at 4/06/2008 10:38:00 AM
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3 Comments:
If that's all the gehinnom I'll get, I think I can handle it.
If you were REALLY haughty then you wouldn't think this post applied to you... :-)
Never heard of a Self-Aware Baal Gaavah?
(It's what happens when you habitually leave early from mussar seder.)
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