I asked him, ‘’But do you miss your job as a professor? You were a candidate for the Nobel Prize’’
After, thinking for a while, he answered. ‘’I always had a dream to be a religious man, I have too much love that I want to share with people and I want to help everyone’’
The answer didn’t make any sense to me, because he can share love and help people while maintaining his job as a professor .something was hidden behind his exhausted eyes and pale facial expressions, something I couldn`t understand or recognize as if he is smiling while he is in pain.
I asked him ‘’couldn`t you help students and share your love while keeping your job as a professor?’’
He answered, ‘’ I could’’
I asked ‘’ so why you …show more content…
I loved everything about Rabbis the way they dress, talk, wisdom and how people feel relieved when they talk to them.’’
I asked, ‘’ why you studied Engineering if you already knew you want to be a Rabbi?’’
He answered, ‘’ I grew up as the oldest kid for a poor German Jewish family. Most of the time we didn`t have dinner or lunch that is how poor we were. Studying Judaism would have fulfilled my dream to become a Rabbi but not our need for money. While, studying to become an Engineer was our ticket out of poverty. I had to scarify my dream for the sake of my family. I have never ever forgot my dream. You know, if you don`t achieve your goal it keeps chasing you day, night and even in your dreams. Finally, I got to stop running away from my dream.’’
I couldn`t understand how he accomplished all these achievements in the field of Engineering if being and Engineer was never his dream or goal.
I asked ‘’ but, how did you make all these achievements in Engineering although you studied Engineering just to secure money for your family?’’
He answered ‘’ to be successful in something you have to have a reason to love what you do and if you don`t find it you create it. That reason would be your motive to continue or to keep on