STOP PRAYING
The Hasidic Jews tell the wonderful story of Morris Meltzer who went to his rabbi and said: “Rabbi, my wife is going to have a baby. It’s our first child and my Lily isn’t so young. When she goes into labor at our home would you make a special prayer for her?” The Rabbi said, “I’ll do more than that! I’ll come to your house with nine other men to form a minyan and we will pray for her together.” When the labor pains began, Meltzer telephoned the doctor and the rabbi. The doctor came and ran upstairs to the bedroom — the rabbi and the nine men stayed downstairs and began to pray vigorously. Morris sat outside the bedroom and waited. Suddenly the cries of a baby were heard and the doctor stuck his head outside the door and announced: “It’s a boy!” Morris ran to the head of the stairs and yelled down to the swaying men below: “It’s a…
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