Wisdom from the Rabbi

      "And the Lord said to the rabbi, 'Come, I will show you hell.'  They entered a room where a group of people sat around a huge pot of stew.  Everyone was famished and desperate.  Each held a spoon that reached the pot, but each spoon had a handle so long that it could not be used to reach each person's mouth.  The suffering was terrible.
      'Come, now I will show you heaven, '  the Lord said after a while.  They entered another room, identical to the first - the pot of stew, the group of people, the same long spoons.  But there everyone was happy and nourished.
     'I don't understand, ' said the rabbi.'why are they happy here when they were miserable in the other room and everything was the same?' The Lord smiled, 'Ah, but don't you see?' He said, "Here they have learned to feed each other.' "
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 A cheerful glance brings joy to the heart. .......Proverbs 15:30

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Overheard on Noah's Ark:  "Hey, there are more than two flies in here!"
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       A rabbi, a priest and a minister were debating the beginning of life.  The minister said that life began at birth.  The priest said life began at conception.  The rabbi said that life begins when the children leave home and the dog dies.