In a Place Where There is No Man, Become One (Noah)
I’m guessing that many of you are familiar with Ghandi’s exhortation to “be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
I don’t know if Ghandi was a Talmudic scholar, but it does not come as a surprise to me that a similar teaching is in our Jewish texts. Pirke Avot* (2:5) reads: “In a place where there are no men, strive to be a man.”