Sam Leibovitz foolishly decided to climb mount Carmel–if you knew Sam Leibovitz, you would agree it was a foolish thing to begin with, the original overweight and short-of-breath 8th-Ave.-type climbing a mountain–and so it had to happen. He tripped on a loose stone and fell. He slid down for about 30 feet before he could grab a branch on a small bush, just before he would have fallen straight down. He looked down; there was nothing beneath him for four hundred more feet and not a soul in sight.
He started to pray. “Oh G_d, help me please, save me, Ha-Shem, please let me live, If you would not do it for me, do it for my family, my wife and children, Oh G_d–please…”
He went on unendingly, imploring, begging, praying until suddenly he heard a deep resounding voice from somewhere above: “Son–I heard you. Do you have faith in me? Do you trust me implicitly?”
“Oh my Lord! Oh yes I have faith in you–I always had faith in you with all my heart and soul. Please help me.”
“You have to trust me completely–no holdbacks!”
“I do–I do, Ha-Shem.”
“Then let go of that bush.”
“WHAT?”
“I said, let go of that bush!”
A long pause. Then Sam came up cautiously: “Excuse me Sir, is there anyone else up there?”