Advice for a Duckling

All we want is to live a quiet life of Torah and emuna in the holy Land of Israel. So many people - including the local secular media - seem to want to swallow us alive. Yet, with emuna, we take everything in our stride with a big smile on our face too.

This all reminds me of a pack of hungry wolves who saw a little duckling. Each claimed the poor little thing for their supper, so they began to fight each other in a ferocious melee of blood and fangs. Each clamping on to the other's jugular, until they all dropped dead in a puddle of their own blood. When everything quieted down, the duckling crawled out from his hiding place under the table, and resumed his happy life as normal.

Advice to all ducklings: hide under Hashem's wing; it worked for King David (see Psalm 17:8) and it'll work for us.