#428: The Purpose of Punishment

A Sermon for Parshat Beshallaḥ

Note: Please enjoy this “new to you” sermon from ten years ago.

This is from a set of so-called kosher lateral thinking puzzles:

Moishe was a naughty teenager and was always getting himself into trouble at school. One week he was so bad that as a punishment he was told to carry 100 bags of sand from the store room to the long jump pit beside the running t…