A man went to a Jewish rabbi and complained, “Life is unbearable. There are
nine of us living in one room. What can I do?” The rabbi answered, “Take
the goat into the room with you.”
The man did not believe what he was hearing, “take a stinking goat into
the house?”, but the rabbi insisted, “Do as I tell you and come back in a
week. “A week later the man came back half dead, saying, “We cannot stand
it any longer. That goat is filthy and smelly.”
The rabbi then told him, “Now go home and let the goat out. And come back
in a week’s time.” A radiant man visited the rabbi a week later. “Life is
beautiful, rabbi. We enjoy every minute of it. No goat and only the nine
of us.”
Another rabbi put it this way: “The best way to feel real contentment is to
lose everything you have and then get it all back again.”
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