the king’s gift

Once there was a small Jewish community living in a distant land, simple and poor people who worked to make a living and struggled to survive day-to-day. One day, the king declared a new tax on the community’s residents, a particularly high tax imposed on one of the community’s esteemed members—a wise and righteous rabbi whom everyone loved and respected. The rabbi couldn’t understand why the king was targeting him personally, and despite all his [Read more...]