Reb Dovid Leikes prepared all year to spend Rosh Hashanah with the Baal Shem Tov—only to have his wagon break down near a small village desperate for a tenth man. He pressed on to his Rebbe, but the welcome wasn’t what he expected. Rav Shlomo Katz shares a story of holy longing, unexpected purpose, and the revelation that sometimes, a single mitzvah may be the very reason our soul came into this world.