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A man has been in business for many, many years and the business is
going down the drain. He is seriously contemplating suicide and he
doesn't know what to do.
He goes to his Rabbi to seek advice. He tells the Rabbi about all of
his problems in the business and asks the Rabbi what he should do.
The Rabbi says "Take a beach chair and a Bible and put them in your car
and drive down to the edge of the ocean. Go to the water's edge. Take
the beach chair out of the car, sit on it and take the Bible out and
open it up. The wind will riffle the pages for a while and eventually
the Bible will stay open at a particular page. Read the first words
your eyes fall on and they will tell you what to do."
The man does as he is told. He places a beach chair and a Bible in his
car and drives down to the beach. He sits on the chair at the water's
edge and opens the bible. The wind riffles the pages of the Bible and
then stops at a particular page. He looks down at the Bible and his
eyes fall on words which tell him what he has to do.
Three months later the man and his family come back to see the Rabbi.
The man is wearing a $1,000 Italian suit, The wife is all decked out
with a full-length mink coat and the child is dressed in beautiful
silk. The man hands the Rabbi a thick envelope full of money and tells
him that he wants to donate this money to the synagogue in order to
thank the Rabbi for his wonderful advice.
The Rabbi is delighted. He recognizes the man and asks him what words in the Bible brought this good fortune to him.
The man replies: "Chapter 11"
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