Kol Nidre Appeal 2003 One Rosh Hashanah morning, the Rabbi ...

A young woman went to her mother and told her that her life was too hard.
She was tired of struggling to overcome one obstacle after another.
She did not know how she was going to make it.
She wanted to give up.
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Her mother took her to the kitchen.
She filled three pots with water.
In the first, she placed carrots,
in the second she placed eggs
and the last she placed ground coffee beans.
They sat quietly and watched them boil.
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After twenty minutes she turned off the burners.
She fished out the carrot and placed them in a bowl.
She pulled out the eggs and placed them in a bowl.
Then she ladled out the coffee and placed it in a bowl.
Turning to her daughter, she asked,
"Tell me: what do you see?"
"Carrots, eggs, and coffee," she replied.
Her mother asked her to feel the carrots.
She did and noticed they were soft.
The mother then asked her to take an egg and break it.
After cracking through the shell, she observed that it was hard-boiled.
Finally her mother asked her to sip the coffee.
She did, taking in its warmth and richness.
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“Okay mom, what's the point?”
Her mother explained that each had faced the same adversity—