Unfinished business

It is not incumbent upon you to finish the task, but neither are you free to absolve yourself from it. “

Yehudah HaNasi (Judah the Prince), second-century rabbi and chief redactor and editor of the Mishnah—the core teaching of the Talmud (135 -220 CE)

This statement is interesting because it is ambiguous. What I think it means is it is not an obligation to finish someone else’s unfinished business, yet it would be a better thing if we volunteered to help out in order to finish it.

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