I've known this person for a lot of years; she's closely related to me. She's a wonderful person. I know all the years she's a wonderful person: capable, nice, friendly, a wonderful mother, all that. She ran a play group for many years—fantastic, wonderful. It turns out someone called her up to run a camp. And again, the person's a close relative. I remember hearing call her for a camp. I think she can't do that. She's not really the type. I don't know if she's—she's not a whole leader type. She could do a play group with 10, 12 girls; that's a thing. And then there was another organization, and next thing you know, all of a sudden she became this whole leader. And I'm like, where'd this come from?
The person I'm talking about is my wife. And what's crazy about it, that does it? Oh, you're clapping. I'm gonna be dead now. Oh, without the clap, I may have survived. With the clap, I'm done. But the truth is, I'm serious. We were married maybe 27 years when she got the call to run the camp, and I remember when the man, the rabbi who runs the camp, called. I said, “He probably meant to call me.” I'm the person who does that type of thing. I don't know if she could do this.
And I can't tell you, I walk around and scratch my head: How could it be? I'm married to this person for 27 years and had no idea of the capability that was inside her. Hashem told Avraham, “To the land that I show you.” But you know what? It also means that in this new place, we're going to put you in a new circumstance; we're going to put your new challenges. Now, now, now I'm going to see the real you.
Because sometimes, if you don't give yourself the challenge and give yourself the chance, and you're not forced to step up, even without negativity, you'll just never try. So for some people, they're so limited by what their brains have negatively told them, and other people are just limited because they don't know. “I don't know if I could do it. I don't know. I doubt it. What would make you think I could do that? I doubt it.” And because of that, you're walking around with so much untapped potential. You're lost inside of yourself. You're literally lost, and you're right here, and you're healthy, and you're relatively okay, but your brain has all of these beliefs that literally need to be rewired. You're literally lost inside of yourself just because you don't realize what you could be.