Divine Assistance


 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 the Rabbi to seek his
 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 7".