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On Poverty

A philanthropist on entering a Jewish restaurant noticed a schnorrer, to whom he had given alms that very morning, regaling himself with a dish of smoked salmon.
"Aren't you ashamed of yourself?" he asked.  "This morning you came to beg from me, and this evening I find you in an expensive restaurant eating smoked salmon."
-"Well what do you expect?  When I haven't any money, I can't eat smoked salmon.  When I have got money, I mustn't eat smoked salmon.  When am I supposed to eat smoked salmon?"  -Friday Nite Book

The truth of our faith is that one who is impoverished deserves to have no less than you.

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