How Do You Recognize A Beginning?
by Gavriel Aryeh Sanders
The great sage and commentator Rashi remarks on Exodus 19:5: "Kol hatchalah qashah" - every beginning is difficult. I heard a marvelous commentary on this famous phrase, though I can't recall who said it and regret I'm not able to credit the speaker, but here 'tis: "Keyn, kol hatchalah qashah, v'im einah qashah eiynah hatchalah!" (Yes, every beginning is difficult - and if it's not difficult, it's not really a beginning!)
The great sage and commentator Rashi remarks on Exodus 19:5: "Kol hatchalah qashah" - every beginning is difficult. I heard a marvelous commentary on this famous phrase, though I can't recall who said it and regret I'm not able to credit the speaker, but here 'tis: "Keyn, kol hatchalah qashah, v'im einah qashah eiynah hatchalah!" (Yes, every beginning is difficult - and if it's not difficult, it's not really a beginning!)
