Once, when the Baal Shem Tov was delivering a Torah discourse to a gathering of his disciples there was a knock on the door. The disciples were annoyed to see a peasant standing at the threshold with a wheelbarrow full of various sorts of tools.

"Do any of you gentlemen need anything fixed?" he inquired, oblivious to their stares. "Perhaps your chairs need a bit of tightening or your tables need a sanding or maybe the chimney needs bricking?"

"No, there is nothing which needs to be done," one of the Besht's followers answered curtly, wanting nothing more than to return to his learning.

"No, nothing requires fixing," chimed in the others, all growing more and more impatient by the second. "You can go on your way, there is nothing to be done here."

But the peasant was a tenacious fellow, and he refused to take "no" for an answer. "It's impossible that everything is perfect! Surely there is something that needs doing."

The Baal Shem Tov interrupted his speech and addressed his students. "Many times I have told you that nothing happens in the world simply by chance. From every word and every incident you can learn something to strengthen and improve your service to the One Above. The words of this peasant should speak to the heart of each and every one of us! How deep and meaningful they are, for how can we say that everything is perfect with each of us? If we only look into our hearts and souls we all will find something which cries out to be 'fixed,' some defect in us which is waiting for us to make the necessary repair."