Mirror of Silver (Version 1)
StoryIllustration★★★★One day a rich man of a miserly disposition visited a rabbi, who took him by the hand and led him to a window.
“Look out there,” he said. The rich man looked out into the street. “What do you see?”
“I see men, women and little children.”
Again the rabbi took him to a mirror. “What do you see now?”
“I see myself.”
“Behold,” the rabbi said, “in the window there is a glass and the mirror is glass also. But the glass of the mirror is covered with silver. No sooner is silver added than you cease to see others and see only yourself.”
The point
A rabbi shows a miserly rich man: looking through a window, he sees others; looking in a mirror (with silver backing), he sees only himself. Silver (greed) blinds us to the needs of others.
Scripture
1 Timothy 6:10Luke 12:15
Audience
Adults
Tone
Convicting · Challenging
To tell aloud
under a minute · 106 words