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".