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

[Micha Berger]

On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 08:14:47PM +0300, Liron Kopinsky wrote:
: 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...

There is Mishlei 24:16:
    Ki sheva yipol tzadiq vaqam,
    uresha'im yikashelu vera'ah.

But it my not be generalizable. The pasuq could refer to the fact that
"Good judgment comes from experience; experience comes from bad judgment."
(-Jim Horning) Or it could be referring to an effect specific to
*spiritual* growth.

Tir'u baTov!