"Be generous with time, particularly when the consequences to the other person are significant. I remember reading a comment of Simone Weil (a philosopher and member of the French resistance) that during the Nazi occupation of France, she knew many people who would willingly have stood on line for hours to procure rationed eggs, but who would not have done so to save the life of someone unrelated to them. In contrast, Yitta Halberstam Mandelbaum relates an incident about the late rabbi Shlomo Carlebach, the great Jewish spiritual teacher, songwriter, and performer, told to her by a woman who was waiting to board a plane from Toronto to New York. The rabbi's flight was fully booked and about to be boarded when an airline representative made an announcement: 'There are two people who have medical emergencies and desperately need to get back to New York. We're asking for two volunteers to give up their seats for the sake of these people. The next flight to New York is in three hours. We know it's a great sacrifice and we're sorry to put you in this position. Is there anybody here willing to extend themselves to help these people?' One hand in the crowd immediately shot up. 'I'm ready,' shouted Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach. A man known to be extraordinarily busy, Carlebach was constantly traveling from concert to concert, and then meeting with and counseling people late into the night. The woman who was present at the airport that morning told Yitta: 'Of all of us gathered there that morning, it was Shlomo who probably had the most compelling need to get back fast. He had the least time to spare. But miraculously, he also had the most time to give.' "