If a person is cunning enough to remember thirty-three thousand rules, he is also smart enough to always find a way around them. If he doesn't want to do a certain thing, he will find a way.
I heard a story about a Christian saint. Someone hit him in the face because that day in the morning lecture he said, “Jesus says that if someone hits you on one cheek, turn the other.” One of those present wanted to check this and hit him with all his might on the cheek. This saint was truly true to his word: he turned him the other cheek. But this man was also not easy: he hit the other cheek, even harder. Then a surprise awaited him: this saint pounced on him and began to beat him so hard that this man said:
- What are you doing? You are a saint, and this morning you said that if someone hits you on one cheek, turn the other.
He said:
- Yes, but I don’t have a third cheek. And Jesus stops there. Now I'm free. Now I will do what I want. Jesus doesn't give any more information about this.
Translated from Russian · original on wisdomlib.ru