Parables

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Bar Majan died and was given a splendid funeral.
At the same time a poor scholar died, but nobody followed his body to the grave, since the whole city was escorting Bar Majan's body.
How could the justice of God permit this?
Bar Majan, though not a pious man, had done one splendid good deed. He had invited the city councilors to a banquet, and they, to insult him, refused to come. So in a rage he gave orders that the poor should come and eat the food, in order that it not be wasted.

from the Talmud