Love Matters More by Jared Byas

Author:Jared Byas
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Zondervan
Published: 2020-07-08T00:00:00+00:00

TURNING WHEAT INTO BREAD

In a collection called Seder Eliyahu Zuta, the rabbis tell a parable about “a mortal king who had two servants whom he loved with perfect love”:

To one he gave a measure of wheat and to the other he gave a measure of wheat; to one [the first, he gave] a bundle of flax and to the other a bundle of flax.

What did the clever one of the two do? He took the flax and wove it into a napkin. He took the wheat and made it into fine flour by sifting the grain first and grinding it. Then he kneaded the dough and baked it, set the loaf on the table, spread the napkin over the loaf, and left it to await the coming of the king.

But the foolish one of the two did not do anything at all.

After a while the king came into his house and said to the two servants, “My sons, bring me what I gave you.” One brought out the table with the loaf baked of fine flour on it, and with the napkin spread over the bread. And the other brought out his wheat in a basket with a bundle of flax over the wheat grains. “What a shame! What a disgrace!”

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