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The Ultimate Death

A boy's mother became ill.  The son called for an ambulance.  In the midst of all the turmoil, the father father declared that it is Friday and he must bring home a stranger for Shabbat.  The young man was disturbed that his father could think of strangers at such a time.
Days later, the son said:  "Now I understand, father, about the stranger.  You wanted to save mother's life.  "Charity averts death," tells the Torah."
"No," said the father.  "What I asked you to do it, I did not ask because I thought it would avert mother's death but because charity averts God's death."  -Rabbi Harold Shulwies

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