Humor and Morality Story

A rabbi asked God about heaven and hell.

"I will show you hell," God said, and he took the rabbi into a room with a large pot of stew in the middle. The smell was delicious, but around the pot sat people who were famished and desperate. All were holding spoons with very long handles which reached to the pot, but, because the handles were longer than their arms, it was impossible to get the stew back into their mouths.

"Now I will show you heaven," God said, and they went into an identical room with an identical pot of stew and people with identical spoons, but they were all well-nourished and happy. "It's simple," God said. "They like to feed one another."

- Medieval Jewish story