Category: Ethnic Stories

JEWISH (GRAND)MOTHER

A young mother asked her mother to take her child to the beach and beseeched her to take good care of him. She need not have worried. The grandmother kept her charge almost within arm’s reach and did not let him out of sight. Suddenly a big wave came out of the sea and before anything could be done, the boy was swept away. The stricken grandmother fell to her knees and with tears in her eyes shouted towards the sky:

“Almighty God, how could you have done such a cruel deed to me? To me Sarah, the most pious woman in the community, who never yet missed a prayer-service at the synagogue, who always gave money to the paupers, who never cheated at cards.”

Just as she finished speaking, another huge wave swept in and set the missing child at his grandmother’s feet.

“Thank you Dear Lord,” –- said the grateful woman, – “but what about the cap the boy had on his head?”

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