I've recently been into watching the Trojan Marching Band. I find it fascinating how they all keep in perfect formation and synchronized despite the complication involved in what they do. It reminds me a lot of what I heard from Rabbi Akiva Tatz shlit"a. He says that you have to be mevatel yourself as an individual and give over your talents for the betterment of the klal. That is the only true way to maximize your abilities. If someone in the TMB would step out of place during a performance, he would be asserting his individuality, but the entire performance would be ruined, including his part in it. His individuality would be more noticeable, but the perfection of his individual performance would suffer along with the klal. The only way to be perfect as an individual is if he stays in line with the performance of the entire band and does not assert his individuality beyond what the entire performance calls for.
Sunday, October 3, 2010
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