IJMC - The Rabbi's Advice

This weekend brings about an unusual setup. And odd ICQ messages as well, 
but that's another story. Anyway, I find that I fell a day behind in 
posts over the week yet I'm catching up over the weekend. Odd, but good, 
well, except for the falling behind part. So enjoy, the previous one was 
short anyway. I'll be back soon!                                    -dave






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 rifle the pages for a while and eventually the bible will 
stay open at a particular page. Read the bible and it 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 rifles the pages of the bible and then stops at
a particular page. He looks down at the bible and sees 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 advice in the bible brought this good fortune to him. 

The man replies: "Chapter 11."