The Dubner Magged told a mashal of two sailing ships that were traveling on the ocean when a terrible storm broke out. Eventually both ships were destroyed by the waves and the captains of the ships clung to scraps of wood until they were thrown onto the shore after nearly drowning. They were taken to a local hospital and cared for, to restore them to health. One of the captains rested for a few weeks, and then he went back to work on another sailing vessel. The other captain could not come back to himself. He was a broken man. A wise man came to see him and said, "I don't know why you can't get back to yourself like the other captain. You both went through the same ordeal, but he rested for a few weeks and now he is back to sailing but you won't stop moaning and crying about your loss" The captain answered him, "You think that you are a wise man, you don't realize that we did not have the same loss, he was my worker. Both those ships belonged to me. They were filled with precious cargo that was my life's savings."
Rebbetzin Kalmonovitz tells us that we are like the captains of those boats. If we think that we are just Hashem's worker, we will be able to survive the storms of life, but if we think that we are the Captain of the Ship, running the show, we will be broken.
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