[Avodah] If at first you don't succeed, try try again

[Liron Kopinsky]

I recently saw something which said "If Howard Shultz gave up after being
turned down by banks 242 times, there would be no Starbucks." This made me
think about where the value of trying something multiple times comes from,
but I couldn't come up with any good examples from the Chumash (or Tanach).
I came up with Avraham davening for Sedom (although he didn't actually
succeed), Avraham and Sarah davening to have children for many years
(although that's not explicitly in the text) and Moshe davening to enter
EY, which was also answered "no". Beyond that, all I could think of was the
digging of wells.

What other examples are there of this?

Kol Tuv,

-- 
Liron Kopinsky
liron.kopinsky at gmail.com
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