The old man hobbled out into the cold darkness.
Story★★★★Later the Lord spoke to the rabbi. “Why did you let him go?”
The rabbi replied, “I turned him out because he was an atheist, and I cannot
endure him overnight.”
God replied, “Son, I have endured him for almost one hundred years. Don’t
you think you could endure him for one night?”’
The point
A rabbi turns away a poor stranger for being an atheist; God rebukes him, having endured the man for nearly a hundred years—parable on compassion and God's patience.
