Downtown Jerusalem--Under Construction

Downtown Jerusalem is now a construction site. Whether the actual plan is good or bad will become irrelevant. The dug up streets and detoured buses are making life so difficult that no matter how good or bad the "vision" of the city planners is, once it's finished, it's bound to be a great improvement.

I guess it's like that chassidic story about the man who went to his rebbe to ask advice. He was blessed with a large family, and the house was just too small. First the rebbe told him to bring in his chicken, then his goat, then his cow and each time, the man went back to say, that the house was still too small. When all of their animals were living with them the rebbe gave new instructions:

"Take them out."

A short time later, the man rushed back to his rebbe thanking him:

"The house truly is much roomier now."