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A rabbi once asked his students “How do we know when the night has ended and the day has begun?” So the first and brightest of the students offered an answer: “Rabbi, when I look out at the fields and I can distinguish between my field and the field of my neighbor, that’s when night has ended and the day has begun.” A second student offered his answer: “Rabbi when I look from the fields and I see the house, and I can tell it’s my house and not the house of my neighbor, that’s when the night has ended and the day has begun.” A third student offered another answer: “ Rabbi, when I see an animal in the distance , and I can tell what kind of animal it is, whether a cow, horse or sheep, that’s when night has ended and day has begun.” The fourth student offered yet another answer: Rabbi, when I see a flower and I can make out the colour of the flower, whether they are red, yellow or blue, that’s when night has ended and day has begun.”Each answer brought a sadder, more severe frown to the rabbi’s face. Until finally he shouted. “No! None of you understands! You only divide! You divide your house from your the house of your neighbor, your field from your neighbor’s field, you distinguish one kind of animal from another, you separate one colour from all other colours. Is that all we can do – dividing, separating, splitting the world into pieces? Isn’t the world broken enough? Isn’t the world split into enough fragments? Is that what the Torah is for? No, my dear students, it’s not that way, not that way at all!”The shocked students looked into the face of the shocked rabbi. “Then, Rabbi, tell us: How do we know that night has ended and day has begun?” The rabbi stared back into the faces of the students, and with a voice suddenly gentle and imploring, he responded: “When you look into the face of the person beside you, and you can see that person is your brother or your sister, then finally the night has ended and the day has begun.”

Listed skills include Teamwork, Leadership, Team Building, Strategy, and 18 others.

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  University Of Guelph

  Agriculture, Science And Business