Of two brothers one was rich and the other poor. One day the latter, gathering up all the citrons (Ethrogim) left after the festival of Tabernacles, went on a ship to a distant country to try his luck. His fellow pas-
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sengers laughed at him, but it so happened that they landed in a place where the king was lying ill and could only be cured by the smell of the citrons. The poor man was the only man who possessed them and he was brought before the king, was able to cure him and was richly rewarded. He returned home and told his brother what had happened. The miserly brother, envious of his success, also took a sackful of Ethrogim and started on the same journey. But the ship foundered and he was drowned and all his property went to the poor brother, thus rewarded for his confidence in God.