5786 Years Ago, the World was created: let’s play our part to Ensure it Lasts Another 5786 years

On the eve of Yom Kippur, a man once stopped the Berditchever Rebbe Rabbi Levi Yitzḥak (1740–1809), on his way to the synagogue, and said:

“Rebbe, I have little to reproach myself for. I have committed no grave sins. But God — He has much to reproach Himself for. He has taken away children, made mothers weep, permitted wars and massacres. It is He who should repent, not I.”