One morning, the Rabbi was walking through an uninhabited region with his disciples. “I am thirsty,” complained one of the young men, “I am burning, I am dying of thirst.”
The countryside was like a desert. There was no sign of water anywhere.
“Don’t worry !” said the Rabbi, “When God created the world, He saw your thirst as well as its remedy.”
Shortly afterwards they came upon a peasant. He was balancing two pails of water on his shoulders.
“My Lord has gone mad,” grumbled the peasant, “this morning he sent me here to walk backwards and forwards with this load of water – just like that, for no reason at all.”
“You see,” said the Rabbi to the thirsty student, “when God created the world, He arranged all this madness, so you might quench your thirst.”
