A Matrona asked Rabbi Joshua what God has been doing since

Exempla of the Rabbis (Gaster, 1924) Exempla of the Rabbis, No. 16
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A Matrona asked Rabbi Joshua what God has been doing since Creation. The reply was: “He pairs people.” The Ma-

trona then ordered a number of male slaves to marry female slaves, thinking that she could do the same as God. The next morning they returned, one with the head broken, one with the eyes scratched and so on, and she recognised that God knows better how to match them. The Rabbi also told her that God makes ladders, one to go up and the other to go down, to become poor and to become rich.

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