Jewish Stories to Build Teamwork – CLICK TO COMMENT
By Amanda Heskiel In color war, Sarah was the general. We split up the team. We needed to make songs and then to sing as a team. Esther was chosen to write the songs. She thought that Rachel was much better in writing songs. Esther gave that job to Rachel. When Rachel finished writing it, she gave it to Sarah. Sarah photocopied it and gave it out to the whole team. We practiced the songs when we sang it against the blue team. Every one complimented Sarah on the great song. Sarah said, “Thank you.” and then she said, “But, Rachel was the one to write it. She should be the one being complimented, not me.” We learn from Sarah that, even though she was the main person, she didn’t want all the credit. She was nice enough to give the credit to the person who deserved it.
This story was published in the Bar Mitzvah Magazine
I learned from this story that even if you got all the credit that someone did for you, you should say that it was not all you
i learn from Sarah that, even though she was the main person, she didn’t want all the credit. She was nice enough to give the credit to the person who deserved it.
Do not brag
this is what you really should do if someone comes to you saying this
this story teaches that you should not take credit for things that we didn’t do. Sarah didn’t take credit for the song that Rachel wrote. She told everyone that complimented Rachel’s song. No one took credit for the song besides Rachel. Rachel did not even tell anyone that she wrote the song.
This story shows how we all should behave and not just our kids. It takes a person with strong character to give credit where credit is due, especially in the midst of receiving praise themselves for the very same task. I applaud the kids involved and Amanda for highlighting this story.