A bird made its nest on the seacoast, but the sea washed it away. The bird said, “I will not move from here until I turn the sea into land and the land into sea.” So what did it do? It took water from the sea in its beak and sprinkled it onto the land, and took sand from the shore and sprinkled it into the sea.

A friend came, stopped him and said, “You poor devil, what a fool you are! How much do you think you can accomplish by yourself?”

--Esther Rabbah 7:10

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